In 1965 Ramon and Maria Cardenas took over a small restaurant called Casa Grande in downtown Salt Lake City, with Maria cooking and Ramon waiting tables, sharing the Mexican dishes they had grown up with in Chihuahua. Twenty years later, in 1985, they reinvented it as Red Iguana on North Temple. The original location accommodated
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Mexican, Restaurants, Salt Lake City, Season 4, UtahBlue Plate Diner appeared in Season 4, Episode 1 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Diners You Sent Me To,” which aired July 14, 2008, as a viewer-nominated Salt Lake City diner serving creative American comfort food with a scratch-made approach that earned its spot in the episode. The restaurant has since permanently closed. Quick Facts
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American, Restaurants, Salt Lake City, Season 4, UtahBurger Bar in Roy, Utah has been a local institution since the 1950s, operating as a classic American drive-in and burger joint that serves the kind of honest, no-shortcuts burger that built the drive-in’s reputation as an American cultural institution. It appeared in Season 3, Episode 12 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “In the Family,”
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