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Get Fresh Cafe – Norfolk, Virginia – Closed

Restaurants, Sandwiches, Season 12, Virginia

Get Fresh Cafe appeared in Season 12, Episode 6 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Gettin’ Fresh,” which aired September 26, 2011, as a Norfolk farm-to-table cafe building creative sandwiches and cafe plates around locally sourced Virginia ingredients with the kind of genuine commitment to seasonal local food that earned both the episode placement and the […]

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Restaurants, Sandwiches, Season 12, Virginia

Metro 29 Diner – Arlington, Virginia

Breakfast, Restaurants, Season 10, Virginia

Metro 29 Diner on Lee Highway in Arlington has been a Northern Virginia breakfast institution since it opened, serving the kind of generous, scratch-made diner food that earns a suburban community its go-to morning restaurant. It appeared in Season 10, Episode 11 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Sweet ‘n Savory,” which aired November 26, 2010.

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Breakfast, Restaurants, Season 10, Virginia

La Caraquena – Falls Church, Virginia – Closed

Restaurants, Season 10, Virginia

La Caraquena appeared in Season 10, Episode 9 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Gone Global,” which aired November 8, 2010, as a Falls Church Venezuelan restaurant bringing the arepas, cachapas, and home cooking of Caracas to the Northern Virginia suburbs — authentic Venezuelan food in a market that had almost none of it. The restaurant

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Restaurants, Season 10, Virginia

Virginia Diner – Wakefield, Virginia

Restaurants, Season 3, Southern, Virginia

In 1929, Mrs. D’Earcy Davis served hot biscuits and vegetable soup to hungry customers from a refurbished Sussex, Surry, and Southampton Railroad car along a dusty highway in southeastern Virginia. That railroad car is now a legend. The Virginia Diner has been growing around it ever since — dining room after dining room added over

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Restaurants, Season 3, Southern, Virginia

Doumar’s Cones & Barbecue – Norfolk, Virginia

Barbecue, Restaurants, Season 4, Virginia

At the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair, a traveling salesman named Abe Doumar noticed an ice cream vendor about to turn away customers because he had run out of paper dishes. A nearby vendor was selling waffles. Doumar bought a waffle, rolled it into a cone, added ice cream, and changed the way America ate

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Barbecue, Restaurants, Season 4, Virginia

The Village Café – Richmond, Virginia

American, Restaurants, Season 3, Virginia

Guy Fieri described The Village Café as “part dive, part bar, but all neighborhood joint.” That’s a precise description of what has been going on at 1001 West Grace Street in Richmond’s Fan District since 1956. The Village Café appeared in Season 3, Episode 4 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives — “Neighborhood Joints,” aired March

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American, Restaurants, Season 3, Virginia
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