not the TV show but in the same spirt as the show .

what are your favorite places ?
hoping to make a list from this of places I need to try as I get around traveling.

I have determined this is basically the theme to places I like to eat out.

Lets hear your places location and name

Flowers Seafood , Edisto Island SC
it is a little concrete block building that sells seafood , it is also a 5th wheel trailer parked behind the little building that is an excellent cook shack with outdoor seating , the cook shack is only open Thur, Fri , Sat , but is it ever good.
https://flowersseafood.com/

Pete's Hamburger stand , Prairie Du Chien , WI
it is a little street stand , the oldest hamburger shack in WI
honest good burgers made the same way they always were.
https://www.travelwisconsin.com/restaurants/petes-hamburgers-196722

Wedl's Hamburger shack Jefferson WI also an old establishment.
good fried curds and onion rings as well
https://www.wedlshamburgerstand.com

Beaver creek biscuits and Turner's BBQ
Lithia Springs, GA

Frankie's Pub and Grill
Sheboygan, WI
"Sandwiches as big as your head"

Remembered another one:
Old Corner
Lock Haven, PA

Have no recommendations, pretty basic around here, but my son made it a mission for awhile visiting DDD places as he traveled, said they were ok but nothing extraordinary, I guess it was mostly TV hype.

Clydes Drive In in Manistique Mi.for their burgers,especially the Clyde burger.For sit down the Gladstone Deli in Gladstone,Rosie's Diner in downtown Escanaba is excellent too.

I have only been to one that I know of and it was good

https://www.dinersdriveinsdiveslocations.com/sea-wolf-tybee-georgia.html

they have all the locations on their website of all the places they went.
I have also heard some of the places struggle with getting some fame and they can't always keep it the same after.
a couple hundred of them closed not a huge number considering there were almost 1500 in total.

we all know that often it is a couple employees that really make a place special or the owner , and there are so many circumstances one death , fire , flood or illness can really change a place.

a friend of mine and his brother had a Pizza place , they were doing well but were some what ready to hang it up and saw the writing on the wall with the labor market a couple years pre-covid.
they quit while they were ahead , both had degrees and went into teaching , they work half as much now and have a retirement building , weekends and summers off and enjoy the subjects they teach.

Yep, GCP, too many fires in these little places.

We lost Lake Church Inn a few years ago and just recently the Twisted Pair in Beechwood. Both excellent little places.

The Wallpack inn - Wallpack NJ

Lula's in Moberly,Mo.
Little Big Horn Sedalia,Mo.
Swopes Drive-in Rich Hill,Mo.
Geraldi's Cassville,Mo.

The Crawdad Hole in Water Valley MS is the only place that really comes to mind.

yup there was a place we went when I was a kid that was great , had fishing while you waited for a table from the little pond , they had bits of cheese for bait.

not sure what happened to it or what it was named , all I remember was it my favorite place because of the fishing while you waited for a table. I am seeing my parents tomorrow for fish and will ask. I think they said it burned down. that must have been about 40 years ago.

my directions are bad from that age if I had to guess it was probably near Burlington

been 20 year since I was there but when I lived closer to Beaver Dam WI , Mally's bus stop across from the old Kraft plant loading docks was a great place for fish , and you could get a 55 cent tap beer those were the little glasses.

the kitchen had a screen door to the bar and one to the outside , they have 4 ladies in the back that breaded and fried the fish and brought it out.

I see it is closed now.

Eidth's cakes and catering had a little diner in Beaver Dam as well , I see also closed , I took my son there a few years ago before they closed , that was a great spot when I lived up that way 00-04.

Maid Rites Greenville Ohio.

Courtney's BBQ Clover South Carolina.

DDD actually has a map on their website. When you are visiting somewhere you can pull it up and eat at the place they filmed near you. I hit the bbq joint in vegas like that. Pretty killer. Road Kill Cafe or something it was called I think.

https://www.stricklandsrestaurant.com/

If you're ever in Athens, GA, this is the place for a Southern cafeteria style breakfast. Lunch is good but breakfast is great.

My favorite for 57 yrs

Chicago Deep Dish - Paesanos dang its good

Philly area - DiCostanzo's the ORIGINAL HOAGIE on 425 in Marcus Hook - get sharp prove and hot roasted Italian hot peppers
Jimmy Johns Hot Dogs on 202 Glen Mills thick skinned and delicious
Ashelys on Route 1 in Chester Heights

Des Moines Are - Tasty Tacos - their taco sauce is amazing get the flour tacos

Portland - Guiseppies Italian - the Antipasto plate is gigantic and free with meals, more than even I can eat in one sitting entrees

In West Bend WI, Brazenhead Irish Pub downtown main street.

They have a fantastic Tenderloin Steak sandwich.

It comes with grilled mushrooms and onions on it, a great grilled flavor.

No doubt the best sandwich I have ever had.

Sounds like the wife and I need to take a little trip. Thanks.

Sheboygan Falls WI,

El Rancho Viejo, mexican resturant.
Get the fajita's, steak, chicken or shrimp, don't bother with anything else..

The wife and I are always looking for an excuse to get down there and stop for lunch.

I have not had a burger there but the wife has, she said it is very good. I know that in the last couple of years they were voted best burger in WI.