Diners, Drive-ins and Dives

- Season 16

(2012)

In the Season 16 opener, Guy stops at a St. Louis roadhouse, where he samples rice and beans, Cajun-style pot stickers and pulled-pork pasta. Later, he visits a Syracuse café that specializes in Mediterranean cuisine, including falafel and baklava.

Guy Fieri visits restaurants with a definite direction, including a pasta institution that creates a sauce just for dipping chicken; a restaurant with a funky technique.

Guy Fieri hones in on spots doing food differently.

Guy's finding heavenly culinary matches: a barbecue place in Brooklyn, N.Y., that serves up wings and beef ribs; seafood dishes prepared by a husband and wife from Manteo, N.C., include soft-shell-crab quesadilla, tuna tacos.

Guy warms up with some specialties in Brooklyn, where a mom-and-pop diner offers an apple waffle with pancetta and deep-fried empanadas; Olympia; and Grandy, N.C., where a German restaurant features Reuben sandwiches and baked-potato soup.

Guy visits an Italian eatery in Chatham, N.J., and gets a taste of fried chicken, rice balls and a pork sandwich. Later, a restaurant in Olympia, Wash., serves up oysters Benedict, squash-and-apple hash, and a crunchy blueberry dessert.

Guy's sampling from land and sea: a Syracuse eatery has chicken-Caesar sandwiches and sweet-and-spicy sausage fajitas; a Kitty Hawk, N.C., seafood restaurant has fisherman's risotto and citrus chicken; and a Olympia, Wash. brewpub.

Decadent dishes are found in Brooklyn at a Southern-style restaurant that serves chicken and waffles; a spicy pulled-pork sandwich; and a donut of the day; Guy visits a place in Puyallup, Wash., known for homemade meatballs.

Guy's feasting on the tastes of Europe, including Tacoma, Wash., where he tries a hangover soup & a dish called Frikadelle; a Toronto place serving only meatballs; & a Polish family restaurant in Syracuse known for potato pancakes & stew.

Guy Fieri's sampling foods straight off the grill in Los Angeles (hot-pork sandwich & lamb burger) and Tacoma, Washington (kabobs and beet salad).

Unique combos are highlighted by Guy, beginning in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Koreatown, where he visits a place known for its craft beer and recipes for French dip and fries; a Toronto diner that serves stuffed French toast.

Guy Fieri's firin' up the grill and layerin' up the flavor.

A Jewish deli in Toronto takes an old-school approach to smoking meats and preparing knish; and in Los Angeles, a food truck infuses Singaporean flavors into their chili crab cake and lamb burger.

Pranks, flubs and never-before-seen footage are featured during this behind-the-scenes look at the show.

A restored diner in Toronto is celebrated for its pork belly, mac-and-cheese burger and Christmas burger; a surfer hangout in Nags Head, N.C., serves Jamaican jerk chicken and Caribbean pork chops.