Diners, Drive-ins and Dives

- Season 4

(2008)

Viewers send Guy to three top-flight diners, including a Baltimore joint with a huge range of selections, a Minneapolis diner run by a former CIA employee and a Salt Lake City diner with a 1940s decor.

Guy visits bars who are better known for their cuisine than their beverages. In Alabama he samples gumbo and crayfish, in Georgia he tastes jalapeño corn fritters and in Pennsylvania he savors pirogies and stuffed green pepper soup.

Guy searches out restaurants known for their uncommon take on the heretofore ordinary hot dog and hamburger. His journeys take him to Baltimore where the owner still makes wieners in accordance with an 80-year old recipe, a Minneapolis dive known for its simple fare done in an extraordinary manner and an Austin restaurant where the burgers are flavored with serrano peppers and hot buffalo sauce.

Guy visits small restaurants that are local favorites, including a Tidewater Virginia restaurant whose owner serves wonderful crab cakes while simultaneously running a ship store, a Memphis eatery specializing in frying whole chickens.

Guy searches for the best homemade ice cream and finds a Norfolk, Virginia drive-in where ice cream in waffle cones is a specialty, an Arizona restaurant that makes its own Italian gelato and a New Orleans shop that advertises 400 different types of ice cream sundaes.

Guy discovers wonderful meals in unusual locations, such as an Atlanta grocery store serving up fried quail, a Minneapolis bowling alley dishing out bison hash and a San Antonio laundromat and car wash featuring a classically trained chef.

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Time-tested eateries are visited, including a restaurant in Alabama that's been serving up legendary soft-shell-crab sandwiches for more than 80 years.

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In Duluth, an Italian market/restaurant stacks up hearty homemade lasagna and muffaletta. In Eugene, OR, an all-vegan spot serves tofu sammy and frozen peanut butter pie. And in Delta, WI, a real-deal retro diner dishes out favs.

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Guy tastes traditional dishes at Donatelli's (White Bear Lake, MN), Stoney Creek Inn (Baltimore, MD), and Alcenia's (Memphis, TN).

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