Diners, Drive-ins and Dives

- Season 2

(2007)

Guy stops into a Philly diner for some fried spring rolls, a diner in San Jose, CA for deep-fried falafel, and a small town diner in Ramona, CA for fried chicken cordon bleu.

Homemade biscuits and gravy at a 60-year-old trucker's paradise near Victorville, German spaetzle and jagerschnitzel at an Oklahoma cafe built from rocks dug up in the construction of route 66, and apple smoked salmon and pecan crusted catfish at a Kansas joint in a former bank once robbed by Jesse James.

Truly unique dishes include a local legend in Massachusetts where people line up for whole belly clams, a Michigan joint that serves so many chicken gizzards they named the place Gizzard City, an old-time American diner in downtown San Francisco serving up Portuguese specialties and a lunch truck on the side of the road serving homemade authentic Mexican food.

Off the hook chili from a secret family recipe at an 85 year old Seattle joint; Crab cioppino and artichoke soup at a more than 100 year old California bar turned restaurant, with a produce garden of its own; and an Oklahoma joint on Route 66 that serves some of the most bizarre local favorites you've ever seen.

Guy hits BBQ joints in Los Angeles, Chicago and Kansas City, Missouri.

Amazing fried clams, clam cakes, and lobster chow mein at a Rhode Island legend where lots of people arrive by boat. Seafood done Mediterranean style, including fresh octopus, by a Spanish chef at local favorite near Tampa, and burgers by the beach at a California joint run by an ex surfer, whose motto is, No shirt, no shoes, no problem.

America's classic plate, the turkey dinner at a Boston joint where it's Thanksgiving every day of the year. In Northern California, a restaurant owner and turkey farmer doesn't just put turkey on the menu, it IS the menu, and in Florida, a family owned joint is dishing up the ultimate turkey dinner, turducken, turkey, duck and chicken, all in one.

Guy Fieri checks out viewers choices: A 60-year-old legacy in Florida where the fish goes in the smoker, a Hawaiian paradise outside of Seattle, serving up authentic island food, and a Tiki Bar in Minneapolis where they'll fry anything.

A Mexican restaurant and tortilla factory in San Diego, a real deal diner in Massachusetts, cranking out classic plates for 20 years, then a legendary Chicago burger joint where folks are lining up for burgers along with three-layer fries.

Some joints serve food all hours of the day. The San Diego diner with fresh New England seafood, the 68 year old Chicago institution with veal parm and short ribs, and the Philadelphia diner that's doing scrapple and creamed chipped beef.

Chili and tater tot pizza at a Kansas City joint, brunch on the water at a Long Beach, Ca. legend where the specialty of the house is called the mess, a Michigan diner serving Vietnamese pho bowls, and the barbecue RV.

Guy searches for the restaurants serving the best french fries, onion rings and hamburgers, going to San Francisco, Minneapolis, St. Paul and Ann Arbor, Michigan.

New Jersey is well-known for its diners and Guy visits some of its best.

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