Guy Fieri is a lot of things: An oft-misunderstood King Midas for restaurants big and small. An unlikely health advocate. Definitely not Violent J from ICP. And for an incredible 28 seasons and counting, the impossibly popular TV chef has cruised the country in a red Camaro as the face of Diners, Drive-ins, and Dives.
Over the course of the series, Fieri has visited over 1,000 restaurants, proclaiming love for all. But some states get more love than others. With the help of OG Fieri fan site FlavorTownUSA, weve ranked the states by the number of restaurants Fieri has visited within them. Get ready. Things get slamma-jamma gangster pretty fast.
Editors note: As Triple D is currently airing, the numbers in this article could change at any moment, depending on Guys whims/airdates. As a tie-breaker for states with the same number of visits, we considered the Fieriness of the foods he consumed. And for places he hasnt visited, we gauged their potential appeal to his Guyness.
Restaurants visited: 0 OK, so Guys never been here, or to five other states, so their place in this rank will depend on how much Fieriness there is in each state. To that end, there are very few enthusiastic adjectives in Guy Fieri’s vernacular to describe the state of Delaware. Gangster this is not.The Fieriest bite: Rehoboth Beach is a must-visit, and watching Guy wield a mallet on some blue crabs at Claws Seafood House would be great television.
Restaurants visited: 0 We get the fact that Guy doesnt want to tool around North Dakota, but we’re still going to lament the fact that we’ve never heard lutefisk referred to as “funkalicious” or “slamma jamma.”The Fieriest bite: But seriously, a trip to Medora’s Pitchfork Steak Fondue — where they skewer meat on a pitchfork and fry it in a vat of oil — seems like a cool enough prospect to warrant a trip unto itself.
Restaurants visited: 0 Maybe it’s just so cold that the flames on Guy’s signature bowling shirts would look out of place, but Vermont should be a destination, given there seems to be a strong love of gigantic pancakes in Fieri’s heart, and this is the maple syrup capital of the world.The Fieriest bite: Once Guy does make it to the land of Bernie Sanders, he’s all but required to visit Papa Pete’s for a pancake the size of a bike tire.
Restaurants visited: 0 Come on, Guy. You’re one Southern state away from being an honorary member of Skynyrd. Just get to Arkansas!The Fieriest bite: Might we recommend the chopped beef at McClard’s, one of the best damn BBQ places in the US?
Restaurants visited: 0 South Dakota’s underrated as hell, and the perfect place for one of Guy’s road trips, especially given the prevalence of fried beef, the unexpectedly upscale food in Sioux Falls, and all the Indian tacos to be had.The Fieriest bite: We’d LOVE to see a special where Guy hits up the food carts during the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, a food culture so intense and crazy that it’s been the subject of many an hour of television. He’d have to trade in Camaro for the weekend, but still…
Restaurants visited: 0 This is beef country. Which we’re pretty sure qualifies it for at least honorary status as a Flavortown satellite. Montana is looooooong overdue for a visit from Guy.The Fieriest bite: This is a long shot, but we’ve seen Guy eat Rocky Mountain oysters before, so why not visit the Testicle Festival, an entire event centered around seeing who makes the best ones? This is about as out there as the DDD host could get.
Restaurants visited: 2 Guy’s dad is from West Virginia, so he definitely has roots there, but you wouldn’t know it if you just went by his DDD visits. Come on, Guy. Reconnect with your past. There are pepperoni rolls, like, everywhere in the Fatherland.The Fieriest bite: The Homewrecker hot dog at Hillbilly Hot Dogs, a deep-fried, 15-inch hot dog loaded with habanero sauce, jalapeños, and coleslaw, most of which he wears while wincing in pain from the heat.
Restaurants visited: 4 Honestly, Fieri’s visits to Bama include some of the least insane dishes he eats on the series, with a roster of po-boys, paninis, gumbo, and bouillabaisse offered, none of which are served via bucket. The episodes simply highlight an oft-overlooked part of the Fiery mystique: Dude just kind of loves finding great food in unexpected places, redonkulousness notwithstanding. In a state with no shortage of crazy, Guy finds normalcy. Who’d have thunk it?The Fieriest bite: We’re giving the points to Manci’s Antique Club, largely because the place is loaded with so many vintage ‘50s model cars that it’s almost surprising that Guy doesn’t revert to his childhood self upon entry.
Restaurants visited: 6 Nebraska isn’t exactly known as a food lover’s dream state. Never one to be deterred, Guy tracked down some real gems during his visit, and though he didn’t stray beyond Omaha, he found a genuinely great mix of classic diners plus some unexpectedly great California-style tacos. Like they say, you can take the Guy out of California, but you can’t take the California out of the Guy, especially when there are deep-fried tacos involved.The Fieriest bite: TV food pilgrims are drawn like moths to a good pig-ear sandwich. Andrew Zimmern at Big Apple Inn in Mississippi, and Guy does it at Big Mama’s Kitchen & Catering, where he starts with some legendary fried chicken, moves over to a hamburger that looks like a brat, and finishes it out, very reluctantly, with a slow-cooked pig ear.
Restaurants visited: 5 Guy Fire actually has “BBQ” tattooed on the knuckles of his right hand and “POBOY” on the left, which makes his minimal time eating both those things in Mississippi pretty surprising. OK, that tattoo thing isn’t true. But you believed it for a second, right?The Fieriest bite: Melissa Cookston, the world’s first world-champion female pitmaster, serves our man a Crunch Burger topped with her signature smoked pork rinds at Memphis Barbecue Co.
Restaurants visited: 5 Look, we get that driving all the way up to Maine in a top-down convertible is cold and taxing, but it’s also home to perhaps the best seafood in the entire US, so, you know, suck it up. Guy seems to love him some traditional Maine food, so we’re guessing the producers realized that getting to Maine is a pain for a camera crew, then kinda figured out that most lobster dishes look remarkably similar and put it on the bottom of their to-do list.The Fieriest bite: Lobster rolls. Whole lobster… jeez, these things do kind of all look alike. The hypothetical producers were right! But at Maine Diner, guy digs into a lobster pie, which is just kind of a lobster-y pot pie, but hey, more butter!
Restaurants visited: 6 Wyoming! It has so much more to offer than pools of boiling acid that will straight-up dissolve you. Given the paucity of Guy visits for some of its Mountain West brethren, a sextet of Fieri fun isnt a half-bad showing for a state more closely associated with bears than bold flavors.The Fieriest bite: Generally we’d go with something much, much crazier than the enormous stuffed pretzel at Jackson’s Sidewinders. But Flavortown is built on nostalgia. Fieri’s first business as a kid was a pretzel cart, and now the big softie runs a nonprofit that gives carts to kids so they can start their own journey to Flavortown. Thus, when Fieri gets a look at the pretzel, he gets all misty-eyed and tells his story. It’s surprisingly sweet, and a look into the man’s very soul.
Restaurants visited: 7 How Guy has visited seven restaurants in Connecticut — among them a BBQ joint, a hot dog spot, and a luncheria — but has never featured a single slice of New Haven clam pie is beyond us. Maybe all the soft-shell crab was clouding the production budget?The Fieriest bite: He may have missed the pizza, but Connecticut is also the (debated) birthplace of the burger, and Guy gets down on the 7 Burger at Corey’s Catsup & Mustard, a double patty jammed with brisket and bacon. It’s a pretty far cry from the steamed hams of Connecticut lore, but it does the trick.
Restaurants visited: 7 Iowa’s signature dish — which Indiana also claims, though come on, Hoosiers, you’ve got a lot more exciting things going for you, so give Iowa something — is a gigantic, wheel-sized piece of pork pounded flat, fried, and served on a bun 1/3 its size. Iowa hasn’t gotten a lot of love from DDD, but its cities should petition to be part of the Flavortown Sister Cities Association, which isn’t a thing, but should be. Guy gets his at George the King of Chili, though it’s a less-ridiculous version of the signature sandwich. But hey, at least the meat fits in the bun.The Fieriest bite: At Tacopocalypse — run by a Midwestern metalhead trained in Japanese and Korean traditions — Guy gets down on masa fries covered in kimchi, queso, eel sauce, and bulgogi. It’s super crazy, but hey, it’s Des Moines.
Restaurants visited: 7 Guy doubled his usual episode output for a Season 8 episode titled “A North Pole Christmas,” where he cruised around eating extremely decadent stuff like cinnamon rolls, reindeer sausage, and BBQ. That he didn’t do so in a top-down Snow Cat with flames on the side is a missed opportunity for the ages.The Fieriest bite: At a place in North Pole called Elf’s Den, guy runs across some unexpected fine dining moves. Here, he eats a beef tournedo that gets grilled, almond-crusted, then deep fried before getting a bath in bearnaise, gravy, and sherry-sauteed mushrooms. “That gravy would have made an old sandal taste good,” he says, in a turn of phrase that could well land him a poet laureate title in the current political climate.
Restaurants visited: 7 New Hampshire is… well, its New Hampshire. But based on the seven DDD visits, you’d think it was the cultural center of the world. Everything from incredible pork tacos, farm-to-table bar food, elevated Irish food, and a place that specializes in street food from around the world is represented. And a vegetarian place. But nope. Its still New Hampshire. And if you need proof, take note of the sweater tied around your waist.The Fieriest bite: At the Tuckaway Tavern — a butchery/gourmet lowbrow food emporium — Guy bites into the kind of mashup that seems to fuel his dreams: a deep-fried ball loaded with chili & cheese-filled hot dogs and queso. Even better, they’re called Chili & Cheese Corn Holes.
Restaurants visited: 8 Guy loves BBQ. So why does Kansas rank so low on this “places to visit” list? Because he’s probably in the other Kansas City.The Fieriest bite: Ever a lover of wordplay, the chicken- and cheese-stuffed, bacon-wrapped jalapeños known as Atomic Buffalo Turds at Paolas BBQ Shack charmed our host as expected.
Restaurants visited: 8 How Guy has managed only eight restaurants in the land of fried cheese and brats is beyond us: We’re guessing that dude’s doctor told him to stay the hell out. That’s the only explanation for a roster that hits some solid diners, a pizza joint, and a Mexican place… but zero fish fries or brats or cheese curds. Still, he manages to get to the swollen heart of Midwest comfort food, even if he misses a lot of the staples.The Fieriest bite: At Milwaukee’s Comet Cafe, Guy gets served a Compact Thanksgiving Dinner, which is basically a croquette made from Thanksgiving leftovers. But he really gets won over when he discovers this place gives you a basket of bacon when you order a beer on Sundays, as God intended.
Restaurants visited: 9 Guy plays it remarkably chill in Indiana, with some slightly healthy options, non-explosive burgers, and a visit to a historic restaurant for a meatball sandwich. Again, no sign of that gigantic tenderloin sandwich. Is this some sort of conspiracy?The Fieriest bite: At the now-closed Zest! Exciting Food Creations, Guy takes a bite of Asiago-fried chicken and rosemary/gorgonzola and declares it “golden funk-a cruncha.” So, um, yeah, that’s a pretty Guy Fieri bite.
Restaurants visited: 9 Fried chicken? Check. Chicken-fried steak? Check. Chicken-fried calf testicles? Yes. Yes it’s here too. Along with chicken and waffles, onion burgers, big-ass chili dogs, and perhaps the greatest two minutes in Triple D history, detailed below.The Fieriest bite: Preambling about having a soft spot in his heart for old-school steakhouses rooted in his college job at a meat company, Guy hits iconic Cattlemen’s. After eating a delicious pepper steak, he’s goaded into sampling calf brains mixed with eggs (he is a fan of neither). Choking back on some vomit, he reaches up and grabs the first thing on the line. Unfortunately for Fieri, what he gets is lamb fries… deep-fried lamb testicles. Welcome to the wrong side of the Flavortown tracks.
Restaurants visited: 9 Guy’s a meat and potatoes dude. Idaho’s a meat and potatoes kind of state. Splitting this time between Boise and Coeur d’Alene, he finds tons of both, plus some pizza for good measure. Idaho cuisine’s simple. But hey, it does what it does well.The Fieriest bite: Once you watch enough DDD, you’ll notice that Guy often hits places that are neither diners, drive-ins, or dives. Hes pretty fond of nice places with high-end food. In Boise, though, he splits the difference, rolling into the Westside Drive In, which was taken over by a real-ass chef who serves succulent prime rib dinners at the window, along with, of course, baked potatoes. Naturally, Guy drinks the au jus.
Restaurants visited: 10 There’s a lot of fried chicken on Guy’s voyage through South Carolina: It is, after all, home to some of the best. Along with hole-in-the-wall Mexican and Italian fare, fried chicken is one of Triple D’s go-tos. Sure, he’s skipped a bunch of BBQ spots in South Carolina, but let’s be real: that’s North Carolina’s territory anyway.The Fieriest bite: Chili dogs, too, are a staple of Flavortown. Fieri discovers “one righteous” one at Summerville’s Perfectly Franks (RIP), where a former college football star followed a career-ending injury to make hot dogs topped with insane things. It’s basically the plot of Point Break, but with hot dogs instead of Swayzean homoeroticism. Guys dog is a deep-fried chili dog is topped with slaw, chili, onions, and fried onions. Watching Guy eat is like watching somebody squeeze toothpaste from the middle.
Restaurants visited: 10 Fieri does a solid job finding more than the standard seafood offerings in Rhode Island, including a hole-in-the-wall Italian joint and a combination juice bar/burger spot. But the actual seafood spots he does hit run the gamut between lobster rolls, clam cakes, and much more unexpected fare, generating a pretty fascinating little road-trip itinerary that you could probably do in, like, two days. Because Rhode Island is very small, you see.The Fieriest bite: At Evelyn’s, the host is confronted with a seemingly confusing plate of lobster chow mein (his RI travels feature a number of Asian-fusion lobster dishes that seem to befuddle). He initially seems offended. He very quickly changes his tune.
Restaurants visited: 12 On his many trips to Kentucky, Guy has eaten boatloads of BBQ: spice-rubbed chicken wings, smoked burgers at a now-defunct truck stop, and hickory-smoked goat. Unsurprisingly, his many spirited, adjectival comments have centered around the many flavors of BBQ: “spicy,” “good smoke,” “nice rub,” “dynamite sandwich.” Truly, the bard of BBQ.The Fieriest bite: The Seafood Lady’s aptly named The Hulk is a towering concoction of deep-fried lobster tail and shrimp piled on a house-made waffle, drizzled with Sriracha mayo, and dusted with powdered sugar.
Restaurants visited: 13 Utah is certainly the home of fry sauce and family skiing vacations, but Guy has also managed to call the state home, rolling up to Salt Lake City and its surrounding areas 13 times. He’s sniffed ever-so dubiously at vegan burgers, powered down 10-ounce meatballs the size of softballs, and downed Mexican-approved crispy carne adovada tacos. No Jell-O, though. Not Yet.The Fieriest bite: Tin Roof Grill’s pound cake raspberry cheesecake, aka America’s arteries drizzled with glistening white chocolate ganache and towering hunks of chopped pound cake. The bottom half gets its sweetness from house-made pound cake — which is used as the crust — and raspberries gentled folded into rich cheesecake batter.
Restaurants visited: 14 Yes, at one point Guy Fieri took a tour of Metro Detroit with Kid Rock. Somehow, the universe didn’t completely implode into itself as they ate steak & mushroom pie, inhaled mac & cheese, and drank beer while thankfully not discussing being running mates for a future election. Guy has returned a few times, Rock-less, to indulge in Polish food and falafel, though the lack of a true coney on his roster is a tad sad, and would definitely count against him in any hypothetical primaries But he could rebound with a pasty tour of the UP with Bob Seger and become governor, uncontested.The Fieriest bite: At Clarkston’s Union Woodshop, the unlikely besties eat a burger-ish monstrosity consisting of a ground pork patty, a split hot link, and maple bacon. Yet they never describe it as “bawitabawller,” which seems like a waste.
Restaurants visited: 14 With all its delicious soul and Southern food, wealth of BBQ, and seemingly endless supply of pie, we’re honestly surprised that Georgia isn’t one of the top destinations for Triple D. Like, to the point that if Guy started speaking in a thick Southern accent and saying stuff like “bless my stars,” we wouldn’t bat an eye.The Fieriest bite: This is a state where Guy Fieri ventured into Fox Bros. BBQ and housed some chicken-fried ribs that were smoked, breaded, and fried. Enough said.
Restaurants visited: 14 When it comes to Louisiana, it’s all about Cajun food and po-boys. Guy focused his trips to mostly New Orleans classics, plus Cajun-smoked pork pizza (crisp dough covered in pork butt, garlic butter, and cheese), beef po-boys brimming with boiled meat and homemade gravy, and a comforting, meat-heavy breakfast hash of sausage, corned beef, andouille, and potatoes.The Fieriest bite: Guy inhaled the not-so-traditional muffuletta at the famed Parasol’s Bar and Restaurant, a warm muffuletta dressed up with crisp, grilled prosciutto, as well as ham, salami, Swiss cheese, and olive salad.
Restaurants visited: 17 While Guy spent most of his trips to Nevada searching the Strip for aptly over-the-top and absurd food (think hot links at a place called John Mull’s Meats and Road Kill Grill), he also made a couple of pit stops on the other side of the state in Reno, tasting things like a steak sandwich drenched in ketchup and grape jelly, as well as Basque-inspired rabbit stew.The Fieriest bite: The Sonoran crepe at Crepe Expectations has Mexico meeting France in a fusion of burrito and crepe. With the French surely weeping, Guy inhaled the carne asada steak spiced with lemon and orange that had been rolled into a crepe along with cheese, guacamole, and fire-roasted salsa.
Restaurants visited: 18 Eighteen trips to New Mexico and a whole lot of Mexican food later, Guy certainly provided his taste buds with a host of Mexican and New Mexican delicacies: green chile mac & cheese, crisp sopapillas plump with chicken, and even an all-around American rib-eye served in a bona fide steakhouse hidden behind a liquor store.The Fieriest bite: The Texan pizza at Back Road Pizza hones both American and Mexican influences: the thin cornmeal crust is dotted with sesame seeds, then heaped with hunks of sausage, green chiles, rounds of pepperoni, and Canadian bacon, the most polite of all bacons.
Restaurants visited: 20 From Spokane to Seattle and Tacoma to Olympia, Guy has crossed the great northwest, devouring an international menu of spam musubi, Moroccan beef kebabs with couscous and raita, braised pork shoulder tacos paired with oozing Parmesan tots and moonshine, and Dungeness crab-stuffed cannelloni.The Fieriest bite: The chili burger at Mike’s Chili Parlor is the most oversized behemoth of a burger that even Guy Effing Fieri is willing to remark that he’s frankly stunned by the thing. The chili recipe has been passed down from generation to generation, and here a massive portion is dumped over a burger, then piled with chopped onions, peppers, and shredded cheese.
Restaurants visited: 20 We get it: there are plenty of Philly cheesesteaks in Pennsylvania, Guy. But when you do push aside those sandwiches, there are things like a platter of brisket covered in Fritos (just because???) and a veal Parmesan sandwich larger than Guy’s face, an achievement deserving of a medal.The Fieriest bite: The fried PB&J from South Philadelphia Tap Room is a cinnamon-, sugar-, and Frosted Flakes-coated sandwich, fried in a cup of butter, sliced into four hefty pieces, and devoured with a side of nostalgia, a spice that is basically the MSG of Flavortown.
Restaurants visited: 21 If you can somehow ignore all the BBQ sauce and meat that gets coated in Guy’s goatee (he eats many a burnt ends and brisket sandwich here), Missouri has produced things like monster pot pies and the questionably named BBQ Sundae, which (thankfully!) does not contain a lick of ice cream.The Fieriest bite: Guys Italian heritage and love of BBQ combine into a heap of spaghetti at The Highway 61 Roadhouse and Kitchen. A plate of pasta is swirled with spice-rubbed pulled pork and barbecue sauce while Guy twirls mismatched and while insists it has to be sacrilegious.
Restaurants visited: 22 So what if Virginia’s abundant BBQ is overshadowed by Guy’s intent on smashing mac & cheese grilled cheese sandwiches and sporting sequin-bedazzled collared shirts? Only those close to him possess the answer.The Fieriest bite: At Guy marvels at spaghetti and cold cut-stuffed meatballs at Rigoletto Italian Bakery & Cafe, where meatballs the size of a man’s palm are packed with ham, salami, spicy capicola, provolone, and mozzarella. For reasons still unknown, theyre listed on the low-fat menu. Maybe its time for Bethenny Frankel to jump on the Flavortown express?
Restaurants visited: 23 Between its famous crabcakes and legendary pit beef, there’s enough deliciousness in Maryland to have warranted its own episode of DDD, with Italian fare, the requisite taqueria (seriously, Guy can’t NOT hit a taqueria in every state, even Maryland), and other staples thrown in. But at the end of the day, Maryland’s dominated by crab, and Guy seems intent on trying all of it.The Fieriest bite: Crabcakes. Deep-fried crab. Cream of crab soup. At Stoney Creek, Guy says “screw choice” and digs into a crab feast, with full steamed crabs just dumped at the table and ripped apart by hand. (Don’t worry, he also eats that other stuff.)
Restaurants visited: 24 Ohio’s kind of a paradise for eaters like Guy Fieri, a place where decadence reigns, pierogies are king, and spaghetti is not complete before somebody dumps chili all over it. Which is to say, Guy could probably just spend a couple months driving back and forth from Toledo to Cleveland and find enough troughs of delicious Polish food and overstuffed sandwiches to fuel a whole season.The Fieriest bite: Legendary grilled cheese emporium Melt Bar & Grilled is a new-wave Ohio legend offering up 30+ sandwiches. Guy gets a bit of local knowledge and a pierogi fix with the Parmageddon, named after nearby Polish enclave and featuring vodka-kissed cabbage and pierogies stuffed into a grilled cheese.
Restaurants visited: 25 Fried chicken and BBQ are core food groups in the Flavortown food pyramid, though the absence of hot chicken from his roster — in Nashville, Guy opted for Italian, grilled cheese, tacos, and Jamaican goat curry — might point to a bias against extreme spice. Or maybe he’s just a Memphis man: After all, it was in the land of Elvis that he did an official BBQ tour, and found what he dubbed some of the best (non-Nashville hot) fried chicken he ever ate at Uncle Lou’s.The Fieriest bite: Marlowe’s offers exceptional ribs served alongside a nigh-impossible number of people with Elvis hairdos (it’s by Graceland), but there are two things that make this a true Flavortown classic. First, it’s a combo Memphis BBQ joint and Italian restaurant. Second, they have a fleet of pink limos with custom Elvis plates that they send out to pick patrons up. And if there’s anything Guy Fieri loves more than BBQ and Italian food, it’s subtle transportation.
Restaurants visited: 27 To quote the poet Petey Pablo: North Carolina, come on and raise up, take your shirt off and wave it ‘round your head… wait, no. No, please. Not after a rampage through Lowcountry that includes Serbian stuffed pizza, chili burgers, enough fried seafood to fill an aquarium, and, of course, a metric shitton of chopped pork. North Carolina is a food paradise. But it does not a beach body make. Luckily, there are no beaches in Flavortown. Just vats of glorious nacho cheese.The Fieriest bite: Touring Charlotte with NASCAR driver Clint Bowyer, Guy enters the wonderland that is Pit Road Bar & Grill, a go-kart track that happens to also serve insane foods. Guy plays it safe with the Hot Lap sandwich, a Latin-style shredded chicken. Somehow, though, he does not partake in the featured Moon Pie sliders, an unholy combo of burger and candied bacon jammed between chocolate-covered marshmallow cake sandwiches. Were this real politics, the oversight might result in a mayoral recall.
Restaurants visited: 27 Oregon’s a sneaky state, one that everybody thinks is a vegan commune until they show up and are immediately confronted with stuff like Portland’s Pine State’s fried chicken biscuit covered in cheese, egg, bacon, and sausage gravy. On his many trips to the state, Guy’s dined on pork belly Cubanos and hit some of Portland’s finer restaurants like Spanish mainstay Ataula and Southern classic Country Cat, once again reaffirming that Guy’s got as much love for lowbrow food as he does finer dining. Then he eats a donut burger, just in case you forgot who youre fucking with.The Fieriest bite: Speaking of finer dining, Guy once ventured to Junction City’s Junkyard Extreme Burgers + Brats, between Portland and Eugene, and ate a goddamn pizza that featured a gigantic disc of fried cheese instead of crust. It was… exactly what you’re imagining.
Restaurants visited: 30 New Jersey: Home of the pork roll, Springsteen, and enough red sauce Italian joints to populate Sicily. Guy hits them all, and then does Jersey one better by consuming everything from Buffalo crabcakes to coal-fired pizza. Jersey is also the diner capital of the country and a huge consumer of hair gel. Which is to say, Fieri’s right at home.The Fieriest bite: At the Vincentown Diner, Guy finds the ultimate comfort food: A meatloaf tower covered in fried onions and a thick gravy made of veal stock, mirepoix, and prime rib au jus, making it basically a skyscraper on the skyline of Flavortown.
Restaurants visited: 31 The city of Chicago is one that’s exploding at the seams with mashups and fusion foods, and Guy’s right at home with classics like Cemitas Pueblas, Kuma’s, and the White Palace Grill, one of the city’s ultimate diners. Basically, dude could tour the state endlessly on his decadent quest, gobbling up horseshoes, underrated BBQ, and Italian beefs. That Illinois is only his 10th most visited state is a little befuddling, but hey, there’s still time. We’re guessing DDD is going to make it for at least 55 seasons, give or take.The Fieriest bite: Guy loves him some gigantic pancakes, and gets that plus his horseshoe fix at Springfield’s Charlie Parker’s. Said horseshoe is covered in enough madness — toast, eggs, bacon, cheese sauce, sausage gravy, and fries for the “breakfast shoe,” variations with pork tenderloin, steak, and burger patties for lunch — to feed seven people, or 1.5 Fieris, for a day.
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