The first season of Food Paradise, an American food reality television series narrated by Mason Pettit on the Travel Channel, premiered on December 17, 2007. First-run episodes of the series aired in the United States on the Travel Channel on Mondays at 10:00 p.m. EDT. The season contained 15 episodes and concluded airing on April 26, 2008.
Food Paradise features the best places to find various cuisines at food locations across America. Each episode focuses on a certain type of restaurant, such as "Diners", "Bars", "Drive-Thrus" or "Breakfast" places that people go to find a certain food specialty.
Episodes
Hamburger Paradise Restaurant Location Specialty(s) Louis' Lunch New Haven, Connecticut invented original hamburger sandwich in 1895 using vertical flame broilers White Castle (First) Wichita, Kansas (throughout U.S.) famous 2 1/2 inch steamed sliders with chopped onions All-American Drive-In Massapequa, New York old-fashioned classic "All American Burger" Bob's Big Boy Burbank, California "Original Double Deck Hamburger" (2 patties), "Super Boy Big Combo" World Famous Ted's Restaurant Meriden, Connecticut Steamed cheeseburgers with white cheese Half-Moon Restaurant & Saloon - CLOSED Kennett Square, Pennsylvania Wild-game burgers (buffalo, ostrich, elk, antelope, wild boar and kangaroo) The Spot Natural Food Restaurant - CLOSED Hermosa Beach, California Homemade veggie burgers Pop Burger - CLOSED (Lower West Side) New York City, New York 3 inch mini burger gourmet sliders Old Homestead Steakhouse (Chelsea/Meat Packing District) New York City, New York $41 Kobe beef burger with exotic mushrooms and tater totsWaylan's Kuku Burger Miami, Oklahoma Giant grilled burgers with buttered buns and any topping
Pizza Paradise Restaurant Location Specialty(s) Lombardi's Pizza Napoletant (Little Italy) New York City, New York Neapolitan-style thin-crust coal oven pizza, "Margerita"-cheese and sauce, famous pesto pizza Ray's Pizza (on Prince St.) New York City, New York Original Ray's traditional thin-crust pizza The Original Frank Pepe's Pizzeria Napoletana ("Little Italy" – Wooster Square) New Haven, Connecticut New Haven-style coal fire oven pizza Sally's Apizza Restaurant New Haven, Connecticut Coal fire New Haven-style pizza Pizzeria Uno Chicago, Illinois Original deep dish pizza, "Numerio Uno" – cheese, sauce, sausage and pepperoni Lou Malnati's Pizzeria Chicago, Illinois Deep dish pizza with buttery flaky crust, Wisconsin cheese and Illinois pork sausage, Chocolate chip pizza Giordano's Famous Stuffed Pizza Chicago, Illinois Stuffed pizza Turino-style - -pound pizza pies with double crust, cheese on bottom and sauce on top Caioti Pizza Cafe Studio City, California California-style gourmet pizza with unexpected toppings, "Pizza Rockafella"-seafood topped pizza California Pizza Kitchen Beverly Hills, California (1st), (Throughout U.S.) Gourmet California-style pizza, Original Bar-B-Que chicken pizza Nino's Bellissima Pizza (Upper East Side) Manhattan, New York "Luxury Pizza" - $1,000 gourmet pizza with crème fraîche, lobster tail, caviar and salmon roe
Hot Dog Paradise Restaurant Location Specialty(s) Nathan's Famous Coney Island, New York famous frankfurters (chili dogs, sautee onion & pepper dog), crinkle-cut fries, Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest Pink's Hot Dogs Hollywood, California 21 celebrity-named grilled hot dogs, chili cheese dogs The Varsity Atlanta, Georgia World's biggest hot dog stand and drive-in, water-boiled hot dogs (chili dogs, chili slaw dog), onion rings, Superdawg Drive-In Chicago, Illinois "Superdawgs" voted best Chicago hot dogs – (smokey & garlicky) Hot Doug's The Sausage Superstore Chicago, Illinois Wild-game sausages sandwiches, corn dogs, "The Dog" – Chicago dog Jimmy Buff's Hot Dogs & Sausages East Hanover, New Jersey Originators of the Italian hot dog (fried hot dogs with fried potatoes, onion & peppers stuffed into a roll Franktitude (Southbeach) Miami, Florida Chilean-style seafood dogs, salmon franks, low calorie chicken/tofu franks
Steak Paradise Restaurant Location Specialty(s) Peter Luger Steak House Brooklyn, New York Dry-aged USDA prime beef, heavy-cut lamb chops Hilltop Steak House CLOSED Saugus, Massachusetts Prime rib, Rib eye steak Pat's King of Steaks Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Philadelphia cheese steak (chopped steak with Cheese Wiz) Geno's Steaks Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Philadelphia cheese steak (sliced steak with provolone) Cattlemen's Steakhouse Oklahoma City, Oklahoma USDA prime & choice steaks, (T-Bone Steak, "Cattlemen's Strip Sirloin") Big Texan Steak Ranch Amarillo, Texas Big Texan Challenge: 72 ounce top sirloin, dinner roll, side salad, baked potato, and fried shrimp. Buckhorn Exchange Denver, Colorado Wild game steaks: (buffalo, yak, elk, ostrich) Megu New York, New York Kobe Chateaubriand and Kobe Filet Mignon
Donut Paradise Restaurant Location Specialty(s) Café Du Monde New Orleans, Louisiana beignets with powdered sugar, cafe au lait Kane's Donuts Saugus, Massachusetts traditional cake- and yeast-style donuts; giant coffee rolls; full line of Kane's Gluten Free (KGF) donuts (14 daily flavors) Randy's Donuts Inglewood, California 50-foot ceramic doughnut-shaped sign, glazed, sugar and chocolate raised donuts The Spudnut Shop Richland, Washington "Spudnuts" – potato flour donuts, "Nutty Spuddy", "Spufins" – potato flour muffins Voodoo Doughnut Portland, Oregon "Voodoo Doughnut" – raspberry jam-filled voodoo doll-shaped doughnut, "Bacon Maple Bars", "Dirt Doughnuts", bubblegum doughnuts, "Dirty Snowball", "Memphis Mafia" Top Pot Doughnuts Seattle, Washington old-fashioned spice cake doughnuts, maple doughtnuts, "Rainbow Doughnuts", "Pink Feather Boa" – pink icing with coconut Doughnut Plant (Lower East Side) New York City, New York designer gourmet doughnuts, glazed doughnuts with edible flowers, raspberry glaze, doughnut jelly square, pistachio nut glaze
Barbecue Paradise Restaurant Location Specialty(s) Arthur Bryant's Kansas City, Missouri 12-hour hickory & oak slow-smoked beef brisket, pork ribs with signature vinegar-based BBQ sauce. Interstate Bar-B-Que Memphis, Tennessee Dry-rubbed brisket, pork ribs, chicken and sausage, one-pound pulled pork sandwich, "Barbecue Spaghetti" (seasoned rib meat mixed with BBQ tomato-based sauce over spaghetti) Smitty's Market Lockhart, Texas Slow smoked brisket and signature smoked sausage. Kreuz Market Lockhart, Texas Fast-smoked brisket, boneless beef shoulder, and smoked sausage. Black's Barbecue Lockhart, Texas Smoked brisket, turkey, pork loin and beef ribs with signature BBQ sauce. Annual Barbecue Festival Lexington, North Carolina Chopped or sliced pork shoulder in a ketchup & vinegar-based BBQ sauce called "Dip" served with cole slaw. Hot pork skins and barbecue turkey legs. Lexington BBQ Lexington, North Carolina Lexington-style barbecue slow-smoked fire pit pork shoulders with vinegar-based BBQ sauce. Chopped pork sandwich served with "red slaw" (ketchup-based cole slaw), hush puppies and sweet tea. Cowboy Flavor (Catering) Santa Maria, California Santa Maria-style "cowboy barbeque" (over an open firepit with red oak smoke) "Barbacoa", Beef shoulder, Linguica sausage served with pinto beans and salsa. The Hitching Post Buellton, California "World's Best BBQ Steaks", Modern Santa Maria-style barbecue (vinegar & garlic-infused vegetable oil basted angus rib chops, prime top sirloin, filet mignon, grilled ostrich meat, barbecued artichokes with smoked tomato ancho-chili mayonnaise) 17th Street Bar and Grill Murphysboro, Illinois Award-winning barbecue (apple wood smoked), dry-rubbed pork ribs smothered with signature tomato & vinegar-based BBQ sauce and sprinkled with "Magic Dust" (secret seasoning)
Ice Cream Paradise Restaurant Location Specialty(s) Bassett's Ice Cream @ Reading Terminal Market Philadelphia, Pennsylvania America's Oldest Ice Cream Company - ice cream consisting of high butterfat content (makes it creamier) - Mint Chocolate Chip, Cookies and Cream, Cookie Dough, Peanut Butter, Butter Pecan, English Toffee Crunch The Berkey Creamery University Park, Pennsylvania 100 ice cream flavors, 10 frozen yogurt flavors and 6 sherbet flavors - "Alumni Swirl" (vanilla Ice Cream with Swiss mocha chips and blueberry swirl), "Pralines 'N Cream" (Praline flavored ice cream with praline pecans and caramel swirl) Ben and Jerry's Waterbury, Vermont "Cherry Garcia" (cherry ice cream with cherries & fudge flakes), "Chunky Monkey" (banana ice cream with fudge chunks & walnuts), "Chubby Hubby" (fudge-covered peanut butter filled pretzels covered in vanilla malt ice cream swirled with fudge & peanut butter), "The Vermonster" (a huge ice cream sundae served in a bucket filled with 20 scoops of ice cream, 4 bananas, hot fudge, 3 chocolate chip cookies, a chocolate fudge brownie, walnuts, 4 choice toppings and whipped cream). Doumar's Drive-In Norfolk, Virginia Creators of the ice cream cone - homemade Vanilla, Chocolate, Strawberry or Pecan ice cream inside a famous Doumar hand-rolled waffle cone. Max and Mina's of Main Street Queens, New York Homemade Ice Cream & Ices (with eccentric experimental ice cream flavors) "Lox", "Corn on the Cob", "White Fish" (w/ vodka), "Cotton Candy (w/ marshmallows), "Halava", "Chocolate Cupcake", "Praline Pecan" "French Toast", "Garlic" and "Beer & Nuts". Fair Oaks Pharmacy & Soda Fountain Pasadena, California Lime Rickey, Egg Creams, Milkshakes, ice cream sodas, "Classic Sundae" (ice cream sundaes w/ hot fudge, chopped nuts, whipped cream and a cherry), "All-American Banana Split" (a scoop of vanilla, chocolate & strawberry ice cream topped with hot fudge, strawberry & pineapple sauces with whipped cream, cherries and a split banana). Serendipity 3 Manhattan, New York "Strawberry Fields Sundae" (cheese cake, strawberry ice cream and strawberry topping and whipped cream), "Forbidden Broadway Sundae" (chocolate "blackout cake", ice cream, hot fudge topped with whipped cream), "Can't Say No Sundae" (humble pie, ice cream, banana and hot fudge with whipped cream), "Frrrozen Hot Chocolate" (frozen drink with 15 different blends of chocolate a topped with whipped cream), Guinness World Record "Golden Opulence Sundae" ($1,000 ice cream sundae with Tahitian Vanilla ice cream infused with Madagascar vanilla beans and edible gold leaf topped with Paris dried fruit, 23-karat gold-covered almonds, gold sugar flowers, passion fruit caviar and gold flakes served in an Amedei Porcelana & Venezuelan Chuao chocolate, 23K edible goldleaf-lined Baccarat crystal goblet eaten with an 18K gold spoon.
Diner Paradise Restaurant Location Speciality(s) Modern Diner Pawtucket, Rhode Island Breakfast Food - Custard French Toast topped with warm fruit and coconut shavings. Rosie's Diner Rockford, Michigan Fried Bologna Sandwich, "Cobblestone French Toast", meatloaf sandwich served with mashed potatoes and gravy. Empire Diner New York, New York Rail-car diner with a full bar – hamburgers, club sandwiches. Ed Debevic's Diner Chicago, Illinois Cheeseburgers, cheese fries, milkshakes, pies. "Double-burger Special" (14 ounce beef patties) Fog City Diner San Francisco, California Gourmet diner – mac n' cheese with ham & peas, Todo Santos Fish Tacos, Mu Shu Pork Burritos, Buffalo Burgers, truffle-oil fries, famous Bloody Marys, Dungeness Crab Ciopino, signature crab cakes. Papermoon Baltimore, Maryland Breakfast quesadillas, "Cranberry Melt" (turkey with Swiss cheese and cranberry sauce on toast) "Mom's Meatloaf" (served with mashed potatoes and gravy), "David's Delight" (omelette stuffed with lox, cream cheese and capers) Napa Valley Wine Train Napa Valley, California Seasonal Menu - Mahi Mahi Special with fresh vegetables paired with wine, braised short ribs with a Merlot sauce.
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