Tyler Florence starts his day in Santa Barbara, CA, with an artisanal cup of coffee, followed by oven-fired pizza. Then he picks fresh tree-ripened avocados before a decadent dinner of rare olive wagyu beef and black truffles.
Guy Fieri finds out why everyone's going whole hog for a sandwich loaded with sausage, bacon and pulled pork at Chef's Touch BBQ Rig in Santa Barbara, California.
Mika Leon is the author of Cuban Soul: 100 Vibrant Recipes from Mi Cocina. She has worked in kitchens across South Florida over a decade. Her journey to chef, restaurateur, and television personality began with Mikabites, a wholesale desserts company, and continued with opening a food truck serving Cuban tacos and later her restaurant, Caja Caliente, in Coral Gables, Florida. Mika lives in Miami with her husband and daughter and is surrounded by her big, crazy Cuban family.
Michael Symon starts in his hometown of Cleveland, Ohio, at his very own restaurant where he enjoys a tender, juicy and hulking pastrami beef rib and a gets a special look at his grandfather's recipe for scratch-made spaetzle and spicy sauerkraut. Then, in Pittsburg, he hits a food truck that serves up a beer-marinated, oven-roasted pork loin sandwich. Finally in Buffalo, chicken and waffles gets a burger makeover with a spicy maple-bourbon glaze and waffle buns.
Guy Fieri's always down for a good sandwich, so he's stopping in to check out some of the Triple D Nation's latest creations. A food truck in Nashville put down roots and started churning out cheesy concoctions. A Denver diner's gone global, dishin' up eats from all over the world. A seafood joint in Miami put their signature dish inside two pieces of bread, and as a bonus, Guy's letting us in on a Fieri family tradition in Northern California.