The Best Thing I Ever Ate

Food Network stars reveal foods they love to start their day with...from Wicked & Spicy Hot Chocolate, to Peanut Butter and Banana Stuffed French Toast and more.

• Bobby Flay loves to start his day with the peanut butter & banana stuffed french toast in San Diego, CA.
• Ted Allen can’t get enough of the cinnamon rolls from Anne Sather
• Duff Goldman heads to Baltimore, MD for the huevos montellanos from Golden West Cafe
• Michael Symon’s favorite breakfast is the corned beef hash in Cleveland, OH.
• Aida Mollenkamp takes us to BLD in LA for ricotta blueberry pancakes
• Giada De Laurentiis dreams about the wicked spicy hot chocolate from Jacques Torres in NY
• Susan Feniger starts her day with a breakfast pasta from Hugo’s
• Guy Fieri goes big at Matt’s Big Breakfast in Phoenix, AZ

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Molly celebrates her and her husband's third wedding anniversary by making a special brunch for the family that includes Shakshuka with Feta, Brussels Sprouts and Bacon Hash, Pocket Pastries with Raspberry Jam and more.

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Some dishes are so fantastic they become a real obsession.

• Bobby Flay loves the stone crabs from Joe’s Stone Crabs in Miami, FL
• Aaron Sanchez dreams about the creamy rice from Zarla in NYC
• Cat Cora heads to Montecito, CA for the New York strip steak at Lucky’s
• Aaron McCargo Jr lives for the fried buffalo wings at the Jug Handle Inn
• Danny Boome can’t get enough of the linguini from Tree in NYC
• Tyler Florence is crazy about the oysters from Hog Island Oyster Co
• Delilah Winder shares her coconut obsession
• Giada De Laurentiis heads to Seattle for the decadent crab cakes from Dahlia Lounge

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What makes everything better? Bacon! 

• Guy Fieri brings us to San Diego for a delicious bacon burger
• Adam Gertler also enjoys a bacon burger from Father’s Office in LA
• Delilah Winder heads to Atlanta, GA for angry mussels from JCT Kitchen
• Tyler Florence loves the salumi cone from Boccalone Salumeria in San Francisco
• Chris Cosentino wakes up with bacon when he eats the bacon apple maple donuts from Dynamo Donuts
• Ted Allen shares his favorite BLT from Choice Market in Brooklyn, NY
• Aida Mollenkamp raves over the house smoked bacon flatbread from Nopa
• Duff Goldman has bacon for dessert at Animal in LA, CA

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Tyler Florence, Bobby Flay and more reveal the best barbecue they've ever eaten, from Memphis to San Francisco and from pulled pork cooked in a basement to beef brisket smoked in a giant armadillo!

• Ted Allen brings us to Euless, TX to try the BBQ Beef Brisket
• Adam Gertler heads to Syracuse, NY to eat the BBQ Chicken at Dinosaur BBQ
• Alex Guarnaschelli loves the BBQ Shrimp from a joint in New Orleans
• Tyler Florence can’t get enough of the BBQ pulled pork sandwich from Rendezvous in Memphis, TN
• Delilah Winder drools over the ribs at Ronnie’s Ribs
• Michael Symon travels to NYC for the BBQ Beef Ribs at Daisy May’s
• Chris Cosentino shares his passion for baked BBQ pork buns
• Bobby Flay and Duff Goldman chose the same location for BBQ - The Salt Lick in Texas

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We visit the locations where the fryers are hot and reveal how these dishes are totally fried to perfection.

• Bobby Flay's favorite French fries
• Alex Guarnaschelli loves the deep-fried hotdog with bacon at Rawley’s in CT
• Duff Goldman can’t resist the fried shrimp heads from Joss Sushi in MD
• Giada's passion for decadent fried doughnuts
• Ted Allen travels to NYC to eat the tempura bacon from Red Cat
• Michael Symon describes the spicy pork rinds at Publican in Chicago, IL
• Aaron Sanchez head’s to his dear friends restaurant for fried brussel sprouts at Lolita in Cleveland, OH.
• Guy Fieri's love affair with a Caribbean classic

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It's official: Everything is better with butter! Chefs and food experts are revealing the richest, creamiest buttery dishes out there. 

Episode content:

• Alex Guarnaschelli brings on the butter with a one-of-a-kind shrimp-and-grits combo from Tillie's in Short Hills, New Jersey.
• Jeff Mauro hits the streets of Chicago to satisfy his butter craving with an amazing honey butter chicken sandwich from the aptly named restaurant Honey Butter Fried Chicken.
• Richard Blais heads to Du’s Donuts and Coffee for a brown butter key lime donut in Brooklyn, NY.
• Justin Brunson’s favorite buttered dish is the pure butter croissants from Ken’s Artisan Bakery in Portland, OR.
• Marc Murphy travels north to Eventide Oyster Co. in Portland, Maine, for a signature buttered delight.
• Dan Langan keeps it buttery with the buttercake from Flying Monkey Bakery in Philadelphia, PA.
• Geoffrey Zakarian delights in the soy butter tropical sunday by from abcV in New York, NY.

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Some fried food is so crispy, so crunchy and so incredible that you feel like you've died and gone to heaven. 

Episode content:

• Ali Khan keeps it old-school with a phenomenal fried hot chicken sammy from Tumble 22 in Austin, Texas.
• Simon Majumdar takes his taste buds to the next level with a crispy pork shank at Salo-Salo Grill in West Covina, CA.
• Jeff Mauro heads to Proxi in Chicago for a food frenzy with the most-unique version of street corn ever imagined.
• Shinmin Li shares her inner-child dreams with the donut breakfast sandwich from Staw in San Francisco, CA.
• Marc Murphy treats himself to the delicious chicken fried ribs from Fox Bros, Bar-B-Q in Atlanta, GA.
• Elena Besser goes to Washington, DC to have the fantastic fried sugar toads from The Dabney.
• Pati Jinich hits the streets of Durham, NC to eat crispy pig ears from Pizzeria Toro.

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Some special dishes are so good you can enjoy them over and over again. 

Episode content:

• Andrew Zimmern has lost count of how many times he's indulged in the infamous barbecue chicken from Miss Myra's Pit Bar-B-Que in Birmingham, Ala.
• Pati Jinich loves all kinds of pizza but her favorite is the norcia pizza from 2 Amy’s Neapolitan Pizzeria in Washington, DC.
• Courtney Rada love’s the double bison burger from Tony Beef in Galloway, NJ.
• Elena Besser’s is obsessed with the pappardelle pasta from Popina in Brooklyn, NY.
• Jonathan Sawyer reels over the everything bagel with pastrami from The Lox Bagel Shop in Columbus, OH
• Aarti Sequeira can't stop ordering her favorite handmade ice cream at Salt and Straw in Los Angeles,
• Duff Goldman can't keep track of all the jumbo lump crab cakes he has eaten at Faidley's Seafood in Baltimore.

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With layers upon layers stacked with flavor and ingredients, these favorite dishes seem too good to be true.

Episode content:

• Wolfgang Puck gushes about an unimaginable seafood platter at Cassia in Los Angeles.
• Fanny Slater’s favorite stacked dish is the trailer park burger from Winnie’s Tavern in Wilmington, NC.
• Katie Pix’s details the mountain of food that is the BBQ bacon chicken fries from Mr. Fries Man in Gardena, CA.
• Jernard Wells delights over the southern fried chicken and eggnog waffles from Melba’s Restaurant in Harlem, NY.
• Down south in New Orleans, monstrous pulled pork nachos from Kingfish have Marc Murphy stunned.
• Pati Jinich talk’s blackberry bliss pancakes from M.Henry in Chicago, IL.
• Katie Lee Biegel unveils a massive sandwich that will overload your taste buds at Anna's Deli in Sarasota, Fla.

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