I’ve been to Duarte’s in Pescadero, Falafel Drive In, and Aldo’s in Santa Cruz.
Texas
Green Mesquite - Austin (I assume take-out counts?)
Magnolia Cafe - Austin
Twisted Root - Richardson (actually used to be acquainted with one of the founders)
Dough Pizzeria Napoletana (Dallas location, not San Antonio)
I drive by Afrah in Richardson on the way home.
Louisiana
The Old Coffee Pot - New Orleans
Only been to Melt Bar And Grill in Cleveland, OH and it was a bit of a let down, I almost wrote melt down.
Ted Peter’s Smoked Fish
But it was a long, long time ago. When I was a kid we ate there or got take on several occasions. Damn, now I want some smoked mullet.
Afrah
Twisted Root Burger Company.
Evelyn’s in Tiverton RI…Friends of mine run the place…fried clams are amazing!
I’ve been to both Cempazuchi and Comet Cafe in Milwaukee. Cempazuchi is one of my favorite restaurants, though I would hardly call it a diner or dive. Comet is great too.
The Maine Diner in Kennebunkport, Maine.
The show really focused on the lobster rolls, but they also have the best corn muffins you’ll find anywhere. So good that the wife and I still mail order some of the mix every now and then.
I checked the list for NJ locations and I have been to the excellent Tick Tock Diner and to the Hightstown Diner. I don’t recall the Hightstown Diner as being anything special.
Good linkTypo Negative. Thanks.
Sip & Bite in Baltimore, where else would you go after a night of pub crawling in Fells Point?
I ride past the Stoney Creek Inn several times a week, I always say I’m going to go in.
I’ve been to the Maine Diner too. Was that on the Diners & Dives page?
Three for me:
Merritt Canteen, in Bridgeport, CT
Jax at the Tracks, in Truckee, CA
Leonard’s BBQ, in Memphis, TN
I could have sworn that Louis’ Lunch, in New Haven, CT, was featured on the show once, but I guess it must have been some other Food Network offering.
Only 1: Keegan’s Seafood Grille in Indian Rocks Beach, FL. Very mediocre food, and packed every night.
Looking at the map, I’m surprised that DDD has never visited any restaurant in south central or southwest Louisiana, home of Cajun cuisine and some of the best damned food I’ve eaten anywhere.
As soon as the weather warms up, I will be heading back to Truckee for Burger Me.
Will be visiting Dad’s Kitchen and Jaimies Bar and Grill in Sacramento real soon.
A couple of us went there while on a vacation to AZ, one of my friends wanted to go because of the show.
Maybe I was missing something but I didn’t think the food was anything special at all, just average Mexican and Chinese diner stuff.
Yep!
Only one. The Gumbo Shack in Fairhope, AL.
He has an interesting definition of dive. Smoque, Kenny & Ziggy’s, and the Red Lion are hardly cheap. I’m just glad he hasn’t found a lot of the Asian eateries in Houston that are cheap, delicious, and one of the best parts of living here.
On the linked list (Thanks again Typo Negative), I’ve been to:
Texas (Houston): K&Z, Red Lion, Niko Nikos, Cafe Pita
Texas (Austin): Casino El Camino, Maria’s, Magnolia, Louie Mueller (counting Taylor as part of Austin)
California (Napa): Taylor’s Refresher.
Have Heard of, and want to visit: Pecan Lodge, Foreign and Domestic, Mac & Ernies. Smoque.
Would recommend: Casino el camino, Magnolia, Maria’s, Louie Mueller. The Houston offerings are awfully expensive for what you get, though Niko Niko, K&Z, and Red Lion are tasty.
He tends to exaggerate the extent to which a place could be considered a dive. For instance, as I said above, one of the DDD places I’ve been to is Comet Ping Pong in Washington, D.C. That’s a dive? It’s about a hundred feet down the street from Politics and Prose Bookstore, and I sometimes go to Comet Ping Pong after coming from a signing at Politics and Prose. Politics and Prose is one of the most famous bookstores in the world, so much so that it appears in Saturday Night Live opening sketches without an explanation. Comet Ping Pong isn’t frequented by long-haul truckers looking for a meal to break up the tedium of the drive or by whatever people you expect to be at a dive. Comet Ping Pong is a pretty average pizza place frequented by somewhat better-off inhabitants of the Washington area.
Here are all of 'em in Mpls/St Paul
Black Sheep Pizza-yes
Broders’ Cucina Italiana-no
Burch Steakhouse and Pizza Bar-no
Colossal Cafe-yes
Convention Grill-yes
Dari-Ette Drive-In-yes
Donatelli’s-no
Emily’s Lebanese Delicatessen-yes, and oddly enough last night
Food Network Eats at Target Field-yes
Kramarczuk’s-since I was little kid
Left Handed Cook-no, never heard of it
Marla’s Caribbean Cuisine-no
Modern Cafe-yes
Nye’s Polonaise Room-yes
Pizzeria Lola-no, not yet
Psycho Suzie’s Motor Lounge-yes
Smack Shack at The 1029 Bar-no
The Blue Door Pub-yes
The Nook-yes
Victor’s 1959 Cafe-yes
Vincent – A Restaurant-yes (DDD? Not at all, I don’t understand why he went there)
Wienery-yes
15/22 locally.