Episode
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives: Off the Hook Specials
Overview
Schooner or Later (Long Beach, Calif.) • Grinder's (Kansas City, Mo.) • The Fly Trap (Ferndale, Mich.) • Gailwood Cook Shack (Chicago, Ill.) Guy visits places where the specials are totally off the hook. Ever have a chili and tater-tot pizza?
Details
- Series
- Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 11
- Air date
- 2008-01-20
- Runtime
- 22 min
Episode context
Off the Hook Specials is Episode 11 in Season 2 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives. It aired on 2008-01-20. The runtime is 22 min.
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Episode 10: Open 24/7
Studio Diner (San Diego, Calif.) • White Palace Grill (Chicago, Ill.) • The Dining Car & Market (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Guy visits places where you can order great food around the clock.
Episode 12: Burgers, Rings and Fries
Joe's Cable Car (San Francisco, Calif.) • The Nook (St. Paul, Minn.) • Krazy Jim's Blimpy Burger (Ann Arbor, Mich.)
The best burgers in the country, huge fries, and legendary onion rings. What more could you ask for? Guy travels this week to find the all-american meal.
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Episode 9: Family Owned
El Indio (San Diego, Calif.) • Charlie's Diner (Spencer, Mass.) • Paradise Pup (Des Plaines, Ill.)
Stops include a Mexican restaurant and tortilla factory in San Diego where father and daughter work side-by-side. A Massachusetts diner where father and son have been working together for 20 years. And a legendary Chicago burger joint where two brothers turn out for char-burgers and three-layer fries.
Episode 13: The New Jersey Diner Tour
Mustache Bill's (Barnegat Light, N.J.) • Tick Tock Diner (Clifton, N.J.) • White Manna Hamburgers (Hackensack, N.J.) • The Ritz Diner (Livingston, N.J.) • Hightstown Diner (Hightstown, N.J.) • Skylark Diner (Edison, N.J.) • Jefferson Diner (Lake Hopatcong, N.J.)
Guy skips the country-wide tour this week to focus on the highlights of Jersey.
Episode 8: One of a Kind
JT Farnham's Seafood & Grill (South Essex, Mass.) • Joe's Gizzard City (Potterville, Mich.) • Grubstake Diner (San Francisco, Calif.) • Los Tapatios (San Jose, Calif.)
Belly clams in Massachusetts, chicken gizzards in Michigan, Mexican food from a lunch truck, and Portuguese food in San Francisco. Guy travels to these locations this week for some one-of-a-kind specialties.
Episode 7: Talkin' Turkey
Mike's City Diner (Boston, Mass.) • Willie Bird's Restaurant (Santa Rosa, Calif.) • Alpine Steakhouse (Sarasota, Fla.)
The turkey dinner, an American classic. Join Guy at a Boston joint where it's Thanksgiving every single day of the year. Also in Northern California, where Turkey is not only on the menu, it is the menu. Finally in Florida, where turducken is served.
Episode 6: Real Deal BBQ
Evelyn's Drive-In (Tiverton, R.I.) • Hodad's (Ocean Beach, Calif.), Keegan's Seafood Grille (Indian Rocks Beach, Fla.)
Guy enjoys some fried clams and lobster chow-mien in Rhode Island, burgers in California, and Mediterranean food in Florida.
Episode 5: Viewer's Choice
Jay Bee's Bar-B-Que (Gardena, Calif.) • Smoque (Chicago, Ill.) • BBQ Shack (Paola, Kan.)
Guy travels to LA, Chicago, and Kansas City for some real BBQ.
Episode 4: Local Flavor
Mike's Chili Parlor (Seattle, Wash.) • Clanton's Café (Vinita, Okla.) • Duarte's Tavern (Pescadero, Calif.)
Guy samples local favorites.: Chili from an 85 year-old recipe in Seattle, calf fries and chicken-fried steak in a 4th-generation café in Oklahoma, and Dungeness crab ciopino in California.
Episode 3: Seaside Eats
Evelyn's Drive-In (Tiverton, R.I.) • Hodad's (Ocean Beach, Calif.) • Keegan's Seafood Grille (Indian Rocks Beach, Fla.)
Fried clams and lobster chow-mien in Rhode Island, burgers as big as the beach in California, and Mediterranean food in a beach-side strip mall in Florida.
Episode 2: Route 66
Emma Jean's Holland Burger Café (Victorville, Calif.) • The Rock Café (Stroud, Okla.) • Café on the Route (Baxter Springs, Kan.)
Hop in for a ride down historic Route 66. Enjoy some homemade biscuits, German spaetzle, and pecan-crusted catfish.
Episode 1: Totally Fried
Falafel's Drive-In (San Jose, Calif.) • Ramona Cafe (Ramona, Calif.) • Silk City Diner (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Guy stops into a Philly diner for some fried spring rolls, a diner in Cali for deep-fried falafel, and a small town diner for fried chicken cordon bleu.