Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives

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Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives
Genre	Travel, food
Created by	Page Productions
Starring	Guy Fieri
Country of origin	United States
Language(s)	English
No. of seasons	4
No. of episodes	45
Production
Producer(s)	David Page
Location(s)	Various
Running time	30 minutes per episode (including commercials)
Broadcast
Original channel	Food Network
Original run	November 4, 2006 – October 4, 2008
External links
Official website

Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives is a television program hosted by Guy Fieri that debuted in April 2007 on the Food Network. It had earlier appeared as a one-off special in November 2006.^[1]

When Food Network launched its HD simulcast of its SD channel on March 31, 2008, later episodes of the series began to be presented in high definition, although it never aired on the former Food Network HD channel.

The show features a "road trip" concept, similar to Road Tasted, Giada's Weekend Getaways and $40 a Day. Fieri travels around the United States looking for the best drive-in restaurants, diners and dive bars.

[edit] Episodes

Each episode generally has a unifying theme (such as burgers or comfort food) with Fieri visiting multiple restaurants to sample the food that corresponds to this theme. The program focuses on small independent eateries featuring traditional American-style cuisine (such as barbecue, smoked meat, hamburgers, deep fried food, steak, and bacon-and-egg breakfast), regional styles, or ethnic specialties. Most often, the restaurants that the show chooses use fresh ingredients, home-style recipes, and gourmet culinary approaches to what is usually considered non-gourmet food.

Using his trademark good humor and playful banter, Fieri interacts with both the customers, to get their opinion on the food, and with the kitchen staff, who demonstrate how to prepare one or more of the dishes. Fieri's visual trademarks include his spiked and bleached hair, flip-flop shoes, red classic Chevrolet Camaro convertible car, and sunglasses (often worn on the back of his head while indoors).

[edit] Notes and references

[edit] External links

• Official Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives site
• Search map for all places featured on the show (includes many other shows)
• Diners, Drive-ins and Dives Fan Site edited by Rick
• Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives Google Map
• Diners, Drive-ins and Dives Locations
• Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives at the Internet Movie Database
• Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives at TV.com

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