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Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives

DinerDrive-Ins and Dives
Genre Food reality television
Presented by Guy Fieri
Country of origin United States
Original language(s) English
No. of seasons 26
No. of episodes 260
Production
Running time 22 minutes
Production company(s) Citizen Pictures
Release
Original network Food Network 649
Picture format 480i (SDTV)
1080i (HDTV)
Original release April 23, 2007 (2007-04-23) – present
External links
Website www.foodnetwork.com/shows/diners-drive-ins-and-dives.html

Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives (often nicknamed Triple D) is an American food reality television series that premiered on April 23, 2007, on the Food Network. It is hosted by Guy Fieri. The show originally began as a one-off special that aired on November 6, 2006. The show features a "road trip" concept, similar to Road Tasted, Giada's Weekend Getaways, and $40 a Day. Fieri travels all around the world looking at various diners, drive-in restaurants, and dive bars.

Each episode generally has a unifying theme (such as burgers or comfort food) with the host visiting multiple restaurants to sample the food that corresponds to this theme. The program focuses on small, independent eateries featuring traditional American-style, sometimes Canadian, cuisine (such as barbecue, smoked meat, hamburgers, deep-fried food, pizza, steak, and bacon-and-egg breakfast), regional styles, or ethnic specialties. Most often, the chosen restaurants use fresh ingredients, home-style recipes, and gourmet culinary approaches to what is usually not considered gourmet food. The host 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.

The show has had various stars appear in the kitchen alongside Guy Fieri, including fellow chefs Robert Irvine, Andrew Zimmern, Michael Symon, Emeril Lagasse, and Geoffrey Zakarian, as well as celebrities such as Matthew McConaughey, Gene Hackman, Joe Theismann, Kid Rock, Chris Rock, Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Clint Bowyer, Gene Simmons of KISS and Steve Harwell from Smash Mouth.


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