Today we’re hitting the street and grabbing some snacks along the way. Drive over to an award show where street vendors get the recognition, stop by a company making the classic hot dog cart, and cruise down the sweet street of 5th Avenue candy bar. Next, visit a company making street tacos, and follow a street food expert exploring the international fare of New York. Then, flag down an ice cream truck company catering private parties.
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.
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.
When Sunny heard about Mary's homemade Granola, she headed to Croton Falls, N.Y. to get the recipe. This homemade recipe is so amazing, that Mary has started her own company, Lola Granola, and is in contract with a national retailer to sell it. Then Sunny is in Norman, Okla., to get Caryn's Sassy Tailgate Slider recipe. After winning $25,000 with this homemade recipe she bought her own food truck and is now serving it and her Root Beer Pulled Pork Sandwich to the residents of Norman.
In Savannah, Ga., Michael Symon finds a food truck serving up two can't-miss creations: cheeseburger tacos with a house-made beer cheese sauce and a Jamaican jerk fried fish taco with mango salsa and cilantro sour cream. In Seattle, he tries an enormous bone-in pork chop brined for six hours and fired on a grill. Finally, in Phoenix, a smoked lamb sandwich with homemade mint sauce is made by a chef who loves her smoker so much that she's even smoking brownies.
In Queens, N.Y., Michael Symon gets in touch with his Greek heritage with a classic lamb and feta cheeseburger, and then he sinks his teeth into an Italian-style burger stuffed with smoky mozzarella and prosciutto. In Houston, Texas, he finds a rabbit-meat hot dog with chile pepper toppings so spicy there's a release waiver to sign when ordering it. And finally, in Phoenix, Ariz., Michael places an order at a food truck that hitches up a custom smoker to deliver hot smoked meats inside inventive grilled cheese sandwiches across the Arizona desert.
Troy will stop at nothing to find the ultimate slice of bacon. He hits the "bacon belt" in Kentucky for a taste of America's oldest bacon smokehouse, then heads to a Bacon-Palooza, where he tastes bacon inventions on the frontlines of the bacon "revolution." In Seattle, Troy comes cheek to cheek with bacon's future and the inventors of Bacon Salt, who have harnessed the flavor of bacon and made it vegetarian. He finally hops on an all-bacon food truck in Los Angeles for a trip down Hollywood Boulevard.