I used to live in New Orleans it has bunches of them featured on the Travel and Food channels alone plus a few movies. Pat O’Brien’s, Commanders Palace, Mothers, Central Grocery, Galatoire’s, and Antoine’s are just a few of them.
I am fairly sure that there are some in Boston, San Francisco, Paris, and Philadelphia but I would have to think to sort out the names and where they were featured.
I’ve also eaten at Tavern on the Green, and also at Cook’s seafood resturant in Bailey Island, Maine, it was featured in the “Visa-Everywhere you want to be” commercial series as the “unnamed seafood resturant” that didn’t take AMEX
Neither one was particularly memorable, and Cook’s was actually a bit of a letdown, it traded heavily on “we were in a Visa advert back in the '80s”, the food was good, but nothing special
That’s a riot. My friend is a bartender at the Balboa Saloon. I recognize the beer refrigerator when the hot girl walks across the bar. The Bay Arcade sign is familiar!
Devil Inside video. Is that what people looked like on the peninsula in 1987?
A few here in NYC that have been mentioned but I did eat at a place in Paris that was used in A Very Long Engagement but I can’t remember the name. (ate there before the movie was made)
I’ve been to the Wurstkuchl directly by the old bridge in Regensburg, Germany. Touted as the oldest Bratwurst stand in the world at 500 years, and perhaps, arguably, one of the oldest Restaurants in the world, the building dates from before or around 1135 when construction of the old stone bridge was begun and it served as a construction office. After the bridge’s completion in 1146 it was converted to a Restaurant and served slow cooked meals for dockman and crane workers. For the last 500 years it has served charcoal grilled local specialty sausages, sauerkraut, and mustard pretty much unchanged. And they are delicious sausages, I do attest.
Around '85 or '86 I had seen the Wurstkuchl in a PBS German Language instructional series, and they interviewed the proptietor at the time who was this great big, ancient, battleax of a Hausfrau with forearms like the hams she had spent here lifetime grinding into wurst. I just remember them interviewing her and what a figure she cut… She had been working there for something like 60 years. Imagine my surprise when I went there with my exchange family a year or so later, and there she was… it was quite a surprise since I didn’t make the connection between the wurst stand they had shown in the TV program and the one I was standing in, until I saw her. I was so cowered and shocked by her presence that I didn’t say anything to her.
You’ve also been to Fog City Diner (I know, because you went with me :)), which was used in So I Married an Axe Murderer.
And you’ve also been to Omelette Express, which (and there wouldn’t be any way for anyone to know this really unless they lived here) was briefly seen in the opening of the remake of Cheaper By The Dozen with Steve Martin. When he’s jogging, it’s shot from the inside, and you can see some of the restaurant.
I’ve also been to a few already mentioned - Tavern on the Green, Katz’s Deli, Billy Goat Tavern, Pat O’Brien’s.
Others I can think of -
The Tides in Bodega Bay - featured in The Birds. Pretty good seafood, but kind of pricey.
The Manor in West Orange, NJ - The Sopranos - Actually there might be a few that I’ve been to that were either featured or mentioned in The Sopranos, Bahrs in Sandy Hook is another, although I don’t think it was ever shot, I know it was mentioned.
McNear’s in Petaluma was seen in American Graffiti and while the actual Mel’s in that movie was destroyed, I’ve been to most of them in SF.
Moondance Diner in NYC - Seen briefly in Spider-Man.
And just checked the Wiki entry for Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives (I’ve only seen the show a few times.) Been to all of the hosts restaurants here in Santa Rosa (Johnny Garlics, Tex Wasabi, and a couple of others, some now closed) and a few that he’s featured.
Russian River Pub, When it was on River Road and it’s current location on 4th Street. I was there on Saturday, it’s a regular hang out. Although, how long has this show been on? RRBC has been on 4th St. for at least 3 or 4 years now. weird.
The Bayway Diner in Linden, NJ. Just an average diner by NJ standards, but OK.
Hank’s Creekside here in SR. Besides Omelette Express, probably the best breakfast in Santa Rosa. With a neat ladies room.
Willie Bird’s Restaurant - Did they really review this shithole on national television? It’s around the corner from my house (yes, I live in the ghetto) and it is a real shithole. And I LIKE most shitholes. The turkeys are popular but they come from another little shop in Sebastopol. The restaurant is just plain gross.
Taylor’s in St. Helena (and in SF) - Awesome burgers and shakes.
Huh.
Well, scratch that whole Russian River Pub thing. I thought it was Russian River Brewing. Apparently it’s a completely different place. Which gives me something to look forward to. 
Never been there, and it’s supposed to be a hot one this weekend. Might need to take a trip to the river after the Rose Parade.
Me, too! Wasn’t all that impressed, either.
And I’ve eaten several times in the no-longer-existing, but featured in many movies Johnie’s Broiler.
Ye Olde King’s Head in Santa Monica has been in a few commercials. Used to go there a lot.
I’ve been to The Spitfire Grill at Santa Monica Airport several times (it was better when it was Kittyhawk Café). The actual place was not in the film of the same name, but that’s where the name came from. (IIRC the writer had an office above it.) I never saw Tequila Sunrise, but some of it was filmed at SO and I think The Spitfire Grill (or Kittyhawk Café) was in it.
I had dinner at El Coyote, where Sharon Tate had her last meal.
I didn’t know it had been in a film, but I’ve been there, too. Ya, gut Wurst.
I also used to have occasion to go past the ‘Mel’s Diner’ that was used for the exterior shots of the sitcom ‘Alice’. I think it’s really only in the opening credits.
It’s in a pretty nasty, industrial part of town, and I never went in, just knowing I’d be disappointed if I did. But I drove past it all the time. Flo mentioned once or twice being on ‘Grand’ ave. It is. Grand ave is a diagonal that runs across the grin NW-ES from downtown out to Las Vegas. It becomes or merges with US-60.
In Phoenixville, PA (a suburb of Philadelphia) the infamous movie “The Blob” was filmed. There’s a diner, the ValeRio, which was included in a scene; I think I spent about half of my teenage years there.
“The Blob?” I win!
Kid Rock and R. Kelly filmed a music video in a bar in my hometown.
I might have been mistaken, the woman I saw interviewed on the PBS Program, which I believe was called, “Guten Tag” was not the proprietor, but I think, Die Köchin- The Cook. Incredible woman, but I’m sure she has passed on by now.
I’ve celebrated a few Oktoberfests at the restaurant where the dweeby guy took Jennifer Jason Leigh in Fast Times at Ridgemont High. I can’t remember the name of the actual restaurant, but it’s part of a touristy shopping plaza called Alpine Village in Torrance, CA.
I was at a party that Ace of Cakes filmed at, so I’ve had one of their cakes.
Rachel Ray also did some show for a while where she traveled to different cities and ate at local places. I’ve been a few of the ones she visited in Baltimore.
I ate a place Rick Steve’s visited.
I’ve eaten at Carnegie Deli. That had to be featured in something, right?
i have been to the diner in NY that is shown in Seinfeld.
I’ve been to Katz’s deli, and Tom’s Diner where Seinfeld supposedly took place. Also I think that Suzanne Vega song was based off that diner too.
When I was in Las Vegas last year, I ate at Bobby Flay’s Mesa Grill, which is in Caesar’s Palace. The Food Network had a show about the design and building of it.
Charlie Parker’s in Springfield, IL, which was featured on Diners, Drive-ins and Dives (to be fair, I had been there a time or two before DD & D featured it).
D’Arcy’s Pint, also in Springfield, which has been featured on one Food Network program or another.
Cozy Dog Drive-In in, you guessed it, Springfield, which has been on the Food Network a time or two.
Lambert’s Café in Sikeston, MO, which has been featured on, you guessed it, the Food Network.
The Silver Lady in Georgetown, Colorado, which was in Any Which Way But Loose. Well-made American “comfort food.”
Breakfast at the Kiev in NYC, which was mentioned in the pop song Detachable Penis by King Missile. EXCELLENT food, and at a bargain price!