Anyone else watch this religiously? I feel like I am a one man cult that watches these and goes to ones that look interesting. I traveled all the way to Vancouver for a meatball sandwich from this show. Sometimes, when I go to a place that was on the show the previous night, I run into other cult members who have done the same thing. He finds all the best little places.

Places like these are why chains should be abandoned. They usually use local ingredients as well. /soap box

4/18/2012 6:33:58 PM

i've never been tempted to travel long distances like that, but shit, that food always looks delicious.

guy fieri is one lucky guid.

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4/18/2012 6:38:41 PM

I'm right there with you. A few months back I flew to Boise for a bbq sandwich.

4/18/2012 6:43:32 PM

Ok, no joke, I just typed in the website for the show because I am planning my trip across the country and our goal is to eat at one 'Diners, Drive-ins, and Dives' every day of our trip!

Is there a list??

We're traveling through:

Memphis, TN
Little Rock, AR
Oklahoma City, OK
Amarillo, TX
Santa Fe, NM
Albuquerque, NM

(mostly I-40)

So... any help on this would be awesome!! kthx tww

4/18/2012 6:48:12 PM

i'd love to check out some of these places, but never have. has he ever been to this area?


^there is a place in Tucumcari, NM right off of I-40 and the old route 66... i can't remember the name of it, but it has some awesome new mexican food... we stopped there for geology field camp back in the day (and then the second time i went as a camp manager), and then when i went out on my solo road trip out west the next summer... maybe it is called La Cita? (that's the first mexican restaurant i saw looking at google maps in Tucumcari. )

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4/18/2012 6:48:26 PM

he ate barbecue in NC at one point if i recall correctly

4/18/2012 6:51:32 PM

Whenever I travel I usually consult this page:

http://www.tvfoodmaps.com/

It seems to have all of the places from several shows.

4/18/2012 6:56:17 PM

It's not been on Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives but you should check out Scratch Bakery in Durham. It was on Unique Eats.

Its one of my favorite places to get breakfast in Durham. They have a sea salt and chocolate crostada that is so freaking amazing.

http://www.piefantasy.com
Scratch
111 Orange St
Durham, NC

We went there the day after seeing it on Unique Eats. If you go there on the weekends, try and go early b/c it can get very busy. There is a nice outdoor seating area if there arent tables inside.


The sea salt and chocolate crostada is the first thing in this pic:




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4/18/2012 7:21:45 PM

Troll bait

4/18/2012 7:34:55 PM

I'd like this show better if that douchebag didnt host it.

Only one I have been to is Cabo Fish Taco in Charlotte. Loved that place.

4/18/2012 7:39:51 PM

The wife and I were in Baltimore and we stopped in this pizza place near Fells Point. We ordered our pizza and looked over and there is this big poster of Guy. We ask the waitress about it and, sure enough it was on an episode. We were really excited because we love the show and decided it was fate.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_Smg8UJJuQ

btw - The waitress said Guy was really nice but drank like 4 or 5 espressos.

4/18/2012 8:41:05 PM

Anyone ever ate at Bottoms Up in Richmond?

4/18/2012 8:45:28 PM

I ate a breakfast burrito at a place in Santa Fe a few weeks ago that had been featured on this show.

4/18/2012 8:52:32 PM

i've never traveled to any of the places on the show...but i do watch this show quite regularly.

4/18/2012 9:00:11 PM

Flew up to RI for dinner at Flo's Clam Shack that we saw on DDD.

Any time we travel we try to find places that we saw on the show, and we'll probably plan some more foodie type trips to other places.

Another good show like DDD is Unique Eats. It's like DDD but classier.

4/18/2012 9:24:43 PM

Quote :

"btw - The waitress said Guy was really nice but drank like 4 or 5 espressos."

Meh, I have at least 4 shots of espresso a day...

On topic, every place I have been to that was on this show has been on point. Guy might come off as a douche but he sure can pick some solid restaurants.

4/18/2012 9:30:14 PM

I've never actually been to scratch. Do they have meat or savory pies? I love savory pies (like... you know, British pies too) but you just can't find them it seems.

4/18/2012 10:52:19 PM

Meh...he came to charleston recently and everyone said he was the biggest douche. But I guess that's on par for [food]celebrities

4/18/2012 10:58:51 PM

I would never travel more than an hour for the sole reason of going to one of the places he went to but if I happen to be in a city he visited I'll check it out. I went to a philly cheesesteak place in Kansas City once, its was ground control to major NOMS.

4/19/2012 9:51:56 AM

Quote :

"Meh...he came to charleston recently and everyone said he was the biggest douche. But I guess that's on par for [food]celebrities"

He completely deficated his brand all over one of the oldest, and most revered Capitol Hill dive bars after his feature on the Tune Inn a couple years back. It used to be a fantastic Hill staff dive with all the bacon and tater tots you could eat (and the oldest liquor license in the District), and now all the menus have his stupid fucking face on them.

Quote :

"The successful opening of Chef Spike’s tourist-beloved We the Pizza and the Silk Road-length lines outside Georgetown Cupcake have proven that television celebrity can add cold hard cash to District businesses’ bottom lines in the otherwise unforgiving summer heat. But one legendary Capitol Hill dive bar may have just eaten its own scrapple. The Tune Inn, holder of the oldest liquor license in Washington, D.C. and celebrated for its gritty pretentiousness, recently re-branded itself after Food Network personality Guy Fieri following his April visit for the show “Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives.” Menus, once crinkled and historied as a two dollar bill from your grandfather, now feature Fieri’s cartoon face recommending approved dishes of along with photos of him posing with staff and serving customers. The restaurant’s logo itself if now overlapped with a seal announcing that Fieri certifies these once hallowed walls as an “official dive.” A giant poster of Fieri lurks outside of the bathrooms with an indignity that has made some regulars wish the urinals were relocated slightly below his trademark bleached blonde hair. The move seems to contradict the image what one Yelp reviewer described as “a warm-welcomed refuge from the hectic, wannabe ‘trendiness’ of several other late night establishments in D.C.” Ask the Tune Inn’s servers why the establishment re-branded from the unpretentious Capitol Hill watering hole where Congressmen sit in booths beside known vagrants in a mutual pursuit of a taste of home to a tourist-baiting trend based around one appearance by the winner of the “Next Food Network Star” show, and they seem perplexed themselves. Once popularly known for walls covered in taxidermy animals, now the atmosphere is defined by the endorsement of a television personality who many current patrons would not have asked the opinion of in the first place. Will Fieri’s endorsement lead to wrap-around lines of patrons waiting for ice cold cans of Natural Bohemian beer and scrapple hamburgers? How the change will affect the establishment’s regular clientele is yet to be determined, as the Tune Inn’s episode in “Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives” airs Sept. 16."

People still go there, but it's hard to enjoy it as much with his douchey fucking hair and goatee douching up the place everywhere you look.

http://youtu.be/S0Aeu5i8f9w



[Edited on April 19, 2012 at 10:02 AM. Reason : .]

4/19/2012 10:01:06 AM

^^^ charleston has their fare share of douches as well (present company excluded). maybe it was just personality conflict. Thoughts on the Tattooed Moose he promoted?

i've heard him on the radio, guard down, not promoting anything and he seems like a pretty good dude.


^ it's not like the restaurant didn't ask for the promotion
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4/19/2012 10:02:36 AM

i feel like this is the only thing food network shows these days

4/19/2012 10:38:25 AM

he doesnt know how to be subtle. he's incredibly garish, and that makes him a grade a certified douche.

4/19/2012 12:36:30 PM

anyone who watches this show, or supports that guy in any way,

can die in a fire.

4/19/2012 12:48:54 PM

^lol yes!

4/19/2012 12:53:16 PM

Tattooed Moose is great...as is Fuel, another place he went where I'm good friends with the owner. The owner is a really laid back guy and was excited that he was going to be on the show (for publicity reasons, obviously)...and he just said Fieri was an asshole douchebag. That's all. One of those, "nicest guys in the world when the camera is on, then yelling, screaming, and berating everyone once the camera turns off" type guys.

4/19/2012 12:55:55 PM

"omg i watch this show im such a foodie lol"

you are the equivalent of this

4/19/2012 12:56:32 PM

but why you mad tho?

4/19/2012 4:20:58 PM