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| Num Episodes: | 4 |
| Network: | Travel Channel |
| Next Season: | Season 4 |
| Episode List: | List of Food Paradise episodes |
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]
| Restaurant | Location | Specialty(s) | |
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| Keens Steakhouse | King's cut prime rib, mutton chop, whiskey and pipe smoking | ||
| Alabama Jack's Bar & Grill | conch fritters, crab cakes, lima bean soup | ||
| Gus's Fried Chicken | Famous hot & spicy fried chicken, baked beans and cole slaw | ||
| Primanti Bros. | Stuffed sandwiches with deli meat, fries and cole slaw inside, "Pittsburger cheese steak" | ||
| Original Joe's | "Man-sized Italian meals and charcoal-broiled meats: steaks, short ribs, award-winning hamburgers, spaghetti and meatballs | ||
| Wagu beef, duck, local fish, smoked buffalo tenderloin | |||
| The Salt Lick | Pork and beef open-pit BBQ: beef brisket, sausage, pork ribs, and turkey | ||
| Jethro's BBQ | 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 | Old-fashioned butcher shop-style smoked, slice and salt-cured meats: smoked whole pig, smoked ham, famous chicken salad sandwich |
| Restaurant | Location | Specialty(s) | |
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| University of Wisconsin (Badgers) |
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| Auburn University (Tigers) | Wild game meats (fried deer meat), deviled eggs, "hummingbird cake" (with bananas, pineapple and cream cheese icing) | ||
| LSU (Tigers) | Creole cuisine, fried Cajun turkey, alligator meat, chicken fricassee with rice, boudin balls, seafood gumbo, "sauced pecans" | ||
| University of Tennessee (Volunteers) | Smoked BBQ meats (pork ribs and barbecue sauce) | ||
| Ohio State (Buckeyes) | 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) |
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| University of Florida (Gators) vs. University of Georgia (Bulldogs) |
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| USC (Trojans) | 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) |
| Restaurant | Location | Specialty(s) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lil' Dizzy's Cafe | "A Baquet Family Restaurant" – "Wayne's Famous Gumbo" (cerole-style gumbo) and spicy jambalya omelette | ||
| Tolbert's Restaurant | Red hot spicy chili, chili con queso with five-alarm chili sauce | ||
| Salvador Molly's Sun Stop Cafe | "The Great Balls of Fire" (habanero fritters with "sunshine and pain" salsa), "Volcano" (Hot barbeque Kalua pork on garlic bread) | ||
| Brick Lane Curry House | "Vindaloo" Indian-style curry x 10 = "Phaal" (13 different peppers + ghost chilies) | ||
| Jitlada Restaurant & Southern Thai Cuisine | "Kua Kling Phat Tha Lung" (Shredded beef Thai curry) | ||
| Jack Melnick's Cornertap vs. Crosstown Pub & Grill |
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| Restaurant | Location | Specialty(s) | |
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| Riscky's Bar-B-Q | Fall-off-the bone, all-you-can-eat beef ribs | ||
| Ward's House of Prime | 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) | "Gut-Bomb" (2-pound roast beef sandwich stuffed with fries and cheese sauce) | ||
| Incanto | "Leg of Beast" (braised beef shank with "God's Butter" – bone marrow), lamb tongue, goose testicles. | ||
| Kelsey's Steak & Seafood Restaurant | "Six Pound Challenge" (eat a 96-ounce top sirloin steak in one hour) | ||
| Mallie's Sports Grill & Bar | 101-134-pound burgers, largest hamburger in Guinness Book of World Records (350-pound burger) | ||
| Tweed's Restaurant & Buffalo Bar | (Established in 1896) American Bison steak and one-pound burgers |