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, VirginiaIn 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, VirginiaAt 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, VirginiaCaptain Chuck-A-Muck’s sits on Marina Road in Rescue, Virginia, along the James River in Isle of Wight County, and the setting alone is worth the drive: a waterfront seafood shack where the boats come in and the fish on your plate reflects whatever was fresh that morning. It appeared in Season 4, Episode 4 of
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Restaurants, Seafood, Season 4, VirginiaCookie Giannini opened Dot’s Back Inn in 1990 and named it after her Aunt Dot, a server who waited tables for nearly 50 years. In 2007, Jimmy Tsamouras — a longtime friend of Cookie’s son and a Culinary Institute of America-trained chef who had cooked in kitchens in Hawaii, New York, Arizona, and Hilton Head
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Restaurants, Season 3, VirginiaGuy 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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