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Food Paradise
Season 1
No. of episodes15
Release
Original networkTravel Channel
Original releaseDecember 17, 2007 (2007-12-17) –
April 26, 2008 (2008-04-26)
Season chronology
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Season 2

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.[1]

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

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Hamburger Paradise

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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 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 tots
Waylan's Kuku Burger Miami, Oklahoma Giant grilled burgers with buttered buns and any topping

Pizza Paradise

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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 - 4 1/2 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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

All You Can Eat Paradise

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Restaurant Location Specialty(s)
Bellagio Hotel & Casino Las Vegas Bellagio Buffet (200 selections) suckling pig, Beef Wellington, sushi rolls, fish-smoked salmon roulade, Alaskan crab legs
The Broadmoor Hotel Colorado Springs, Colorado Gourmet Sunday Brunch (tapas, cheeses, desserts--chocolate fountain, chocolate showpieces)
The Castaway Burbank, California Sunday brunch (shellfish, shrimp, crab legs, sushi) full bar (Bloody Mary's & champaign), 25 different desserts
Gauchos Village Glendale, California "Rodizio"--Brazilian buffet ("pacana" - Brazilian grilled meat on skewers, empandas) Brazilian dancers
Pea Soup Andersen's Buellton, California All-you-can-eat "bottomless bowl" of split pea soup
Cafe Fleuri @ The Langham Hotel Boston, Massachusetts (September–June) "Chocolate Bar" – dessert buffet with 520 items (chocolate fantasies & chocolates of the world—chocolate soup, creme brulee, chocolate fountain, crepe station)
Denny's Beer Barrel Pub Clearfield, Pennsylvania World's largest hamburger, (1 to 15 pound burgers)

Sandwich Paradise

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Restaurant Location Specialty(s)
Katz's Delicatessen Lower East Side, New York City, New York Pastrami on rye with mustard & Beef salami sandwich
Stage Deli Midtown, Manhattan, New York 35 oversized celebrity-named sandwiches (classic pastrami)
Nardelli's Grinder Shoppe Naugatuck, Connecticut Italian Grinder sandwiches: "Meat Combo" (Three different kinds of meat)
Jersey Mike's Subs Point Pleasant Beach, New Jersey Submarine sandwiches ("Club Sub" with oil & vinegar)
Primanti Bros. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Italian-style meats, coleslaw & fries-stuffed sandwiches
Phillipe The Original Los Angeles, California French dip sandwiches (roast beef, lamb, pork, & turkey with au jus & spicy mustard)
Peanut Butter & Co. Sandwich Shop Greenwich Village, New York City, New York 400 combos of peanut butter sandwiches (PB & Fluff, "Elvis"-PB, bananas, bacon, "The Pregnant Lady-PB & pickles)
Tony's I-75 Restaurant Birch Run, Michigan Over-sized BLT sandwich (World's biggest)

Ribs Paradise

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Restaurant Location Specialty(s)
Nugget Rib Cook-Off Sparks, Nevada "Best in the West BBQ Rib Cook-Off" (every BBQ region is represented)
Famous Dave's BBQ and Blues Minneapolis, Minnesota Two-time BBQ pork ribs champion, "All American BBQ Feast" – ribs, chicken, corn bread, fries, corn on the cob and baked beans
New Zion Missionary Baptist Church Barbecue (aka: "Church BBQ") Huntsville, Texas "Devine Soul Food Ribs" – Oak wood-smoked dry rub secret seasoning barbecue ribs
Charles Vergo's Rendezvous Charcoal Ribs Memphis, Tennessee Charcoal longback rib racks (dry rubbed and basted) with vinegar solution and Greek seasoning
The Shed BBQ & Blues Ocean Springs, Mississippi Fall-off-the-bone BBQ baby back ribs and spare ribs (dry rub with brown sugar and secret sauce
Baby Blue's Bar-B-Q Venice Beach, California Soul Food, slow-cooked hybrid baby back BBQ ribs (dry rub marinade, smoked, grilled, and sauced), Memphis-style pork ribs, Texas-style beef ribs
Nancy's Pig Heaven (Upper East Side) New York City, New York (wet rub) Chinese spare ribs with Chinese red sauce (honey, five-spice powder, soy sauce, hoisin sauce, sherry and rice wine)

Steak Paradise 2: A Second Helping

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Restaurant Location Specialty(s)
Gene & Georgetti Steakhouse Chicago, Illinois Wet aged beef (char-broiled 32 ounce T-bone), beef fat cottage fries
David Burke's Primehouse Chicago, Illinois 40-day Himalayan salt cured dry aged free aged prime beef (hot rock skewers, Kobe beef sashimi)
The Palm Restaurant (Midtown East) Manhattan, New York 28- to 35-day dry-aged beef, broiled steaks (New York strip)
Lawry's The Prime Rib Beverly Hills, California 17 pound prime rib roast, spinning bowl farmhouse salad
The Grill House & Rock Bottom Bar Allegan, Michigan "Do-It-Your-Own Steakhouse"-pick out and grill your own choice meat, (only haunted steakhouse in U.S.)
Musashi Japanese Steakhouse Las Vegas Hibachi-grilled Kobe beef steaks
Bern's Steak House Tampa, Florida 8-week dry aged beef, wine & steak (8 ounce Delmonico steak), world's largest wine selection of any restaurant (1/2 million bottles in underground wine cellar)

Bar Food Paradise

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Restaurant Location Specialty(s)
Union Oyster House Boston, Massachusetts Blue point oysters on the half-shell, 5 to 16 lb lobsters, "clam chowda"
Jimmie Kramer's Peanut Bar Reading, Pennsylvania unlimited bowl of free peanuts
Restaurant Moderno Piedras Negras, Mexico created the original nachos with cheese & pickled jalapeños
J. Gilligan's Bar and Grill Arlington, Texas "Irish Nachos"-cottage fries, cheese, peppers, onions, jalapeño's served in a skillet
Finn McCool's Irish Pub Santa Monica, California Guinness beer, Loaded potato skins with Irish bacon & mushrooms
Barney's Beanery West Hollywood, California World-famous chili (on burgers, hot dogs, fries, hashbrowns), "Champaign Breakfast"-chili cheese dog with Dom Pérignon
Frank & Teressa's Anchor Bar Buffalo, New York World-famous original Buffalo wings with blue cheese dressing & celery
National Buffalo Wing Festival Buffalo, New York Hundreds of different kinds of chicken wings, plus wing eating contests

Breakfast Paradise

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Restaurant Location Specialty(s)
The Machine Shed Urbandale, Iowa Farmhouse Breakfast (big portions): "Farmer's Daughter" & "Hungry Man's Breakfast", "I Love Eggs"-get a free egg, giant cinnamon rolls
Loveless Cafe Nashville, Tennessee South-style breakfast: hot biscuits and gravy & country ham with sorghum syrup
Pancake Pantry Nashville, Tennessee 23 different kinds of pancakes: sweet potato pancakes
Petite Abeille Lower East Side, New York City, New York Belgian waffles: (Brussels waffles & Liege waffles)
Murray's Bagels Greenwich Village, New York City, New York Hand-rolled bagels: Lox & whitefish, "Leo" (Special)-lox, eggs, onions on salt bagel
Cereality Cereal Bar & Cafe Santa Cruz, California Create "Cereal-My-Way" with different kinds of combinations
Swingers Santa Monica, California Late-night organic breakfast: Huevos rancheros, pancakes, waffles, omelettes.

Deep Fried Paradise

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Restaurant Location Specialty(s)
Willie Mae's Scotch House New Orleans, Louisiana Best fried chicken
Jive Turkey Brooklyn, New York Deep fried turkey, fried turkey sandwich
Goodson's Café Tomball, Texas The best chicken fried steak in Texas
Sodolak's Original Country Inn Snook, Texas Chicken fried bacon with cream gravy
Hollywood Café Robinsonville, Mississippi fried dill pickles, fried green tomatoes
Dyer's Burger Memphis, Tennessee Deep fried hamburgers and cheeseburgers in 100-year-old oil
Rutt's Hut Clifton, New Jersey Deep fried hot dogs with secret mustard relish
Chipshop Brooklyn, New York (Will fry up anything!) fish and chips, deep-fried Mars bars, deep-fried pizza

References

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  1. ^ "Food Paradise - Restaurant Locations, Maps, Road Trip Planner". Tvfoodmaps.com. Retrieved August 13, 2012.
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