Food Paradise season 3
| Food Paradise | |
|---|---|
| Season 3 | |
| No. of episodes | 4 |
| Release | |
| Original network | Travel Channel |
| Original release | November 30 – December 21, 2011 |
| Season chronology | |
The third season of Food Paradise, an American food reality television series narrated by Mason Pettit on the Travel Channel, premiered on November 30, 2011. 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 4 episodes and concluded airing on December 21, 2011.[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.[2]
Episodes
[edit]Food Paradise: Manliest Restaurants
[edit]- Note: This episode aired as a special in December 2011.
- The list below features the nine different regional competition finalists of Men's Health's "2011 Manliest Restaurants".
| Restaurant | Location | Specialty(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Keens Steakhouse | New York City, New York | King's cut prime rib, mutton chop, whiskey and pipe smoking |
| Alabama Jack's Bar & Grill | Key Largo, Florida | conch fritters, crab cakes, lima bean soup |
| Gus's Fried Chicken | Memphis, Tennessee | Famous hot & spicy fried chicken, baked beans and cole slaw |
| Primanti Bros. | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania | Stuffed sandwiches with deli meat, fries and cole slaw inside, "Pittsburger cheese steak" |
| Original Joe's | San Jose, California | "Man-sized Italian meals and charcoal-broiled meats: steaks, short ribs, award-winning hamburgers, spaghetti and meatballs |
| Couloir Restaurant at Jackson Hole Mountain Resort | Jackson Hole, Wyoming | Wagu beef, duck, local fish, smoked buffalo tenderloin |
| The Salt Lick | Driftwood, Texas | Pork and beef open-pit BBQ: beef brisket, sausage, pork ribs, and turkey |
| Jethro's BBQ | Des Moines, Iowa | Giant portions, 24 hour-smoked oak and hickory "down home BBQ": beef brisket, famous smoked hot wings, "Adam Emmenecker Sandwich": 5 pounds pork tenderloin, bacon cheeseburger, chicken fingers, brisket, fried cheese and cheddar cheese sauce |
| Salt's Cure | Hollywood, California | Old-fashioned butcher shop-style smoked, slice and salt-cured meats: smoked whole pig, smoked ham, famous chicken salad sandwich |
Tailgate Paradise
[edit]| Restaurant | Location | Specialty(s) |
|---|---|---|
| University of Wisconsin (Badgers) | Madison, Wisconsin | *Stadium Sports Bar (open-air) – "Brats & Beer" (bratwurst) and deep fried cheese curds *Lot 16 Badger Wagon Party beef, pork and chicken sausage |
| Auburn University (Tigers) | Auburn, Alabama | Wild game meats (fried deer meat), deviled eggs, "hummingbird cake" (with bananas, pineapple and cream cheese icing) |
| LSU (Tigers) | Baton Rouge, Louisiana | Creole cuisine, fried Cajun turkey, alligator meat, chicken fricassee with rice, boudin balls, seafood gumbo, "sauced pecans" |
| University of Tennessee (Volunteers) | Knoxville, Tennessee | Smoked BBQ meats (pork ribs and barbecue sauce) |
| Ohio State (Buckeyes) | Columbus, Ohio | Fresh fish from Lake Erie, beef brisket, pulled pork, "Buckeyes" (chocolate & peanut butter candy), "Fried Buckeye" (fried cake and brownies) |
| University of Texas (Longhorns) vs. University of Oklahoma (Sooners) | @ Cotton Bowl, Dallas, Texas | *Texas: Beer & BBQ (smoked beef ribs, brisket, chicken and pork), "Corny Dogs" (corn dogs) *Oklahoma: Fried foods (fried bacon, fried pizza, fried peanut butter & jelly, fried butter and fried coke-a-cola) |
| University of Florida (Gators) vs. University of Georgia (Bulldogs) | @ The Football Classic, Jacksonville, Florida | *Florida: "Gatoribs", gator gumbo, cuban sandwiches, bratwurst, Mayport shrimp, key lime pies and whoopie pies *Georgia: "Bulldog Balls" (meatballs in teriyaki sauce), marinated barbeque chicken and fried chicken |
| USC (Trojans) | Los Angeles, California | Gourmet-themed catering (Barbecue spice rubbed cedar wood-plank salmon, bacon-wrapped hot dogs with California peppers & onions, bratwursts, flank steak, chicken and chocolate fountain) |
Hot & Spicy Paradise
[edit]| Restaurant | Location | Specialty(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Lil' Dizzy's Cafe | (Tremé), New Orleans, Louisiana | "A Baquet Family Restaurant" – "Wayne's Famous Gumbo" (cerole-style gumbo) and spicy jambalya omelette |
| Tolbert's Restaurant | Grapevine, Texas | Red hot spicy chili, chili con queso with five-alarm chili sauce |
| Salvador Molly's Sun Stop Cafe | Portland, Oregon | "The Great Balls of Fire" (habanero fritters with "sunshine and pain" salsa), "Volcano" (Hot barbeque Kalua pork on garlic bread) |
| Brick Lane Curry House | (East Village), New York City, New York | "Vindaloo" Indian-style curry x 10 = "Phaal" (13 different peppers + ghost chilies) |
| Jitlada Restaurant & Southern Thai Cuisine | (Thai Town, Los Angeles, California | "Kua Kling Phat Tha Lung" (Shredded beef Thai curry) |
| Jack Melnick's Cornertap vs. Crosstown Pub & Grill | Chicago, Illinois | *Cornertap - "Wingfest" ("XXX Wings") *Crosstown - "Dynomite Spicy Challenge" ("Devil's Sweat Wings") |
Big Beef Paradise
[edit]| Restaurant | Location | Specialty(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Riscky's Bar-B-Q | (Fort Worth Stockyards), Fort Worth, Texas | Fall-off-the bone, all-you-can-eat beef ribs |
| Ward's House of Prime | Milwaukee, Wisconsin | 8, 16 & 24-ounce prime rib "The Baby Dame" (40-ouncer), "The Big Bulgalshy" (64-ouncer), "The Amazing Alyssa" (72-ouncer), "The Mighty Lind" (88-ouncer), "The Legendary Halaka" (96-ouncer), "Holly Scmidt" (125-ouncer) |
| Big Ass Sandwich (Truck) | Portland, Oregon | "Gut-Bomb" (2-pound roast beef sandwich stuffed with fries and cheese sauce) |
| Incanto | San Francisco, California | "Leg of Beast" (braised beef shank with "God's Butter" – bone marrow), lamb tongue, goose testicles. |
| Kelsey's Steak & Seafood Restaurant | Valparaiso, Indiana | "Six Pound Challenge" (eat a 96-ounce top sirloin steak in one hour) |
| Mallie's Sports Grill & Bar | Southgate, Michigan | 101-134-pound burgers, largest hamburger in Guinness Book of World Records (350-pound burger) |
| Tweed's Restaurant & Buffalo Bar | Riverhead, New York | (Established in 1896) American Bison steak and one-pound burgers |
References
[edit]- ^ http://www.epiodate.com/tv-show/food-paradise?season=3 [dead link]
- ^ "Food Paradise - Restaurant Locations, Maps, Road Trip Planner". Tvfoodmaps.com. Retrieved August 13, 2012.