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Lost Restaurants of Miami cover with a retro collage and the bold Miami title
Lost Restaurants of Miami
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Lost Restaurants of Fort Lauderdale cover features a three image collage of vintage eateries and neon signage
Lost Restaurants of Fort Lauderdale
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Collage book cover titled Classic Restaurants of Louisville featuring multiple vintage restaurant images arranged in a grid.
Classic Restaurants of Louisville
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Book cover for Classic Restaurants of Chapel Hill and Orange County showing a collage of Sunrise Biscuit Kitchen sign, a pink pig weather vane, and Rathskeller artwork.
Classic Restaurants of Chapel Hill and Orange County
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Book cover Classic Restaurants of Alexandria featuring a vintage storefront collage with a round Old Fashioned Ice Cream sign.
Classic Restaurants of Alexandria
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Book cover Richmond's Culinary History featuring a collage of food imagery including tomatoes
Richmond's Culinary History
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Lost Restaurants of Miami

9781467146746

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Tucked around a corner or soaking up the spotlight, Miami's restaurants defend an international reputation for superb cuisine and service. The constant buzz of new arrivals to the city's glamorous food scene often obscures the memory of the celebrated culinary institutions that have closed their doors. Here author Seth Bramson recounts the life--and the often untimely passing--of coffee shops, steakhouses and every level, kind and type of restaurant in between. This joyous look at bygone eateries serves up course after course of beloved fare, from the likes of Jahn's in Coral Gables to Red Diamond in Miami, Pumpernik's on Miami Beach and Rascal House in Sunny Isles.

Lost Restaurants of Miami cover with a retro collage and the bold Miami title

Lost Restaurants of Fort Lauderdale

9781467144605

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So many iconic Fort Lauderdale restaurants have come and gone. From steakhouses to floating eateries and a doughnut shop that catered to a strictly adult audience, these dining destinations served up everything from gourmet seafood to post-beach chill food. Here, you can have another slice at Pizio's Drive-Inn, another heaping plate of pasta at Tina's Spaghetti House, a guilt-free brandy snapp at Fred Wenner's and a final long night at Porky's Hideaway. From the snow crab bisque at Mango's to the key lime baked Alaska from The Caves, authors Todd Bothel and Dan Santoro also serve up vintage recipes that allow readers to re-create classic dishes from these beloved Fort Lauderdale institutions.
Lost Restaurants of Fort Lauderdale cover features a three image collage of vintage eateries and neon signage

Classic Restaurants of Louisville

9781467144964

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The stories of Louisville's best-remembered restaurants are chock-full of legendary locations, huge personalities and well-loved recipes. Find out how a silly joke about "Hillbilly Tea" became an international sensation. Discover the origins of Casa Grisanti and why there would be no Queenie Bee without it. Enter the "World of Swirl" surrounding the rise and fall of Lynn's Paradise Café. Enjoy menus, memories and more of favorites found across the Derby City through the decades. Author Stephen Hacker serves up this history and more, complete with photography by Dan Dry and John Nation.

Collage book cover titled Classic Restaurants of Louisville featuring multiple vintage restaurant images arranged in a grid.

Classic Restaurants of Chapel Hill and Orange County

9781467143943

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Discover the delicious history of eateries in Chapel Hill, both a college town and a dining destination.

Once upon a time the city, synonymous with the University of North Carolina, offered little more than simple cafes to diners. In recent years it has developed a diverse restaurant culture and today is home to some of the country's most creative chefs. From legendary student hangouts to one of the South's most famed barbecue joints to the birthplace of shrimp and grits, these stories are an integral part of the culture of this vibrant spot.

Local authors Chris Holaday and Patrick Cullom profile long-time establishments that helped shape the dining scene in Chapel Hill and the neighboring towns of Carrboro and Hillsborough.

Book cover for Classic Restaurants of Chapel Hill and Orange County showing a collage of Sunrise Biscuit Kitchen sign, a pink pig weather vane, and Rathskeller artwork.

Classic Restaurants of Alexandria

9781467141130

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From seaport pubs to international cuisine, Alexandria's culinary history runs deep.


George Washington danced in the ballroom of Gadsby's Tavern, an Old Town landmark. The Royal Restaurant hung its first shingle a century ago where Market Square is today. Chadwick's has survived fire and flood in its home on the Potomac riverfront. The storefront of legendary Shuman's Bakery may be closed, but the latest generation continues to serve the famous jelly cake to loyal locals. Journalist Hope Nelson curates this tasting menu of some of Alexandria's favorite restaurants, watering holes and breweries - past and present.

Book cover Classic Restaurants of Alexandria featuring a vintage storefront collage with a round Old Fashioned Ice Cream sign.

Richmond's Culinary History

9781467138154

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Richmond's culinary history spans more than four hundred years and includes forgotten cooks and makers who paved the way for Richmond's vibrant modern food scene. The foodways of local Indian tribes were pivotal to the nation. Unconventional characters such as Mary Randolph, Jasper Crouch, Ellen Kidd, Virginia Randolph and John Dabney used food and drink to break barriers. Family businesses like C.F. Sauer and Sally Bell's Kitchen, recipient of a James Beard America's Classic Award, shaped the local community. Virginia Union University students and two family-run department stores paved the way for restaurant desegregation. Local journalists Maureen Egan and Susan Winiecki, founders of Fire, Flour & Fork, offer an engaging social history complete with classic Richmond recipes.
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Classic Restaurants of Coastal Virginia

9781467140171

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The history of dining in Virginia goes back to 1607. Dairy lunches and tearooms dominated the early twentieth-century dining scene. Local favorite Doumar’s—famous for inventing the ice cream cone—became the rage at the 1907 Jamestown Exposition, and palatial seaside resorts like the Cavalier attracted patrons to their luxurious dining rooms in the Roaring Twenties. In the 1930s, Bacalis’ Hot Dog Place invented the Norfolk Dog, a tradition that’s carried on today. Steinhilber’s has catered to family nights out for decades, keeping pace as the local food scene has grown and changed. Join local chef and food writer Patrick Evans-Hylton as he recalls the history of Coastal Virginia’s restaurants and the personalities that made them unforgettable.
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