The fourth season of Food Paradise, an American food reality television series narrated by Mason Pettit on the Travel Channel, premiered on November 7, 2012. 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 25 episodes and concluded airing on April 24, 2013.http://www.epiodate.com/tv-show/food-paradise?season=4
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.
Garlic Butter Shrimp Pasta 20-minute spaghetti with chili, lemon, parsley and plump garlic
Episodes
Bacon Paradise 2: Another Slab (2012)
Restaurant Location Specialty(s) Bacon Austin, Texas Salt-cured smoked thick slab bacon. Tabasco bacon B.L.T., "Double Grind Burger" (grind bacon into the ground chuck beef), corned-bacon pastrami sandwich. John Berryhill's Bacon Boise, Idaho "Bacon Lasagna" (marinara, pasta, ricotta, 2 shredded cheeses, bacon, wild mushrooms with onions & garlic, and goat cheese Béchamel sauce) Zazu Restaurant & Farm Santa Rosa, California "Black Pig Bacon" (applewood smoked). Bacon waffle with espresso gelato and bacon fat toffee, bacon maple popcorn, and maple glazed bacon donuts. Grub Los Angeles, California "Sweet & Sassie Bacon" (aka: "Crack Bacon"), "B.F.P." (Big Flippin' Pancake) (crack bacon and cheddar cheese inside pancake batter) Paddy Long's Chicago, Illinois Beer and bacon pub. Beer-battered bacon strips, "The Bacon Bomb" (brown sugar applewood-smoked bacon loaf stuffed with 5 lbs of spicy beef & pork sausage and black pepper bacon) "Baconfest" (UIC Forum) @ University of Illinois at Chicago Chicago, Illinois *Bleeding Heart Bakery – "Bacon Pork Pocket" (deep-fried bacon-wrapped pork sausage croissant with horseradish mustard sauce)*David Burkes Primehouse – Mini bacon burger dipped in beer cheese sauce*Sable Kitchen & Bar - Applewood-smoked bacon pretzel with bacon jam & smoked pepper dip*Red Butter – Bacon Chili Gulab jamun (Indian dessert – donut hole with ground-up bacon and chilies soaked in syrup and topped with brittle)*Atwood Cafe Bacon pop-rocks, bacon gummy black peppercorn cherry candy, bacon fruit roll-ups and bacon Pixie Stix*Gemini Bistro/Rustic House - Pancetta Ravioli with a bacon vinaigrette topped with a crispy pancetta chip The Berkshire Denver, Colorado "The King Sandwich" – Elvis Presley-inspired crunchy peanut butter, caramelized bananas and Berkshire bacon on toasted sweet Hawaiian bread, "Surf n' Pig", "Deconstructed B.L.T." and bacon martini (bacon-fused vodka) Baconery (Union Square) New York City, New York Bacon + bakery = Baconery (bacon infused desserts) Chocolate bacon peanut butter cookies (with Reese's Pieces), chocolate-covered bacon, bacon pecan pie, bacon brownies, beacon chocolate chip cookies, bacon banana bread
Hamburger Paradise 2: The Double-Decker (2012) Restaurant Location Specialty(s) The Apple Pan Los Angeles, California Steakburger (ground sirloin topped with melted Tillamook cheddar, pickles, lettuce, mayo and signature relish), Hickory Burger (same toppings and smothered in a tangy hickory sauce) Krazy Jim's Blimpy Burger Ann Arbor, Michigan Build-your-own burgers by choosing the number of burger patties layered, type of cheese, type of bun and pick from 30 toppings. Casper & Runyon's Nook St. Paul, Minnesota "Juicy Nookie" (a Jucy Lucy-style burger with black Angus chuck seasoned with special spice mix stuffed with American cheese on a brioche bun) My Brother's Bar Denver, Colorado Jalapeño Cream Cheese Burger ("J.C.B.") (ground beef patty, cheese and jalapeño, pimentos and cream cheese whipped topping on a bakery bun), "Johnny Burger" (Swiss, American cheese, cream cheese and grilled onions) Kuma's Corner Chicago, Illinois Burgers named after metal bands. "Kuma Burger" (beef patty with applewood-smoked bacon, cheddar cheese on a pretzel roll topped with a fried egg, red onions and lettuce) Shooting Star Saloon Huntsville, Utah Burgers with secret seasoning blend on a toasted sesame bun with cheese, lettuce, pickles, tomatoes and onions. Also with bacon and sautéed onions. "Star Burger" (two cheeseburger patties laid with knockwurst) Wild Bubba's Wild Game Grill Elroy, Texas "Wild Hamburgers" – buffalo, elk, venison, cabrito (goat), and wild boar burgers. Antelope Burger (1/3-pound antelope meat dusted with spice mix with lettuce and tomato) "F1 Burger" (one-pounder with BBQ sauce) Heart Attack Grill Las Vegas, Nevada "Quadruple Bypass Burger" (9,982 calorie burger with four ½-pound pig fat bacon cheeseburger patties topped with tomatoes and sauteed onions on buttered-lard buns)
Barbecue Paradise 2: Another Rack (2012) Restaurant Location Specialty(s) Franklin Barbecue vs. JMueller BBQ Austin, Texas *Franklin: Full-brisket seasoned with salt & pepper slow-smoked for 16-hours with post oak, ribs, sausage, pulled pork and turkey.*JMueller: Salt & pepper rubbed 8-hour post oak wood smoked brisket. Gates Bar-B-Q Kansas City, Kansas Sweet & sticky hickory-smoked pork ribs smothered with thick & tangy barbecue sauce. Germantown Commissary BBQ Memphis, Tennessee -pound dry-rubbed spare ribs with traditional Memphis-style barbeque sauce. Memphis in May BBQ Festival Memphis, Tennessee *Cool Smoke - Pork shoulder infused with apple juice and secret spice rub.*Natural Born Grillers (NBG) - Honey mustard glazed "million dollar"-rub brown sugar pork ribs basted with apple juice, smoked for 6 hours.*Fatback Collective - Wood-smoked whole purebred hog. Skylight Inn BBQ Ayden, North Carolina Award-winning oak wood-smoked eastern North Carolina-style pulled pork smoked for 14-hours with hot sauce and vinegar. Sweatman's Bar-B-Que Holly Hill, South Carolina Oak, hickory and pecan wood-smoked whole hog smoked for 8–10 hours slathered with a mustard-basted barbeque sauce, homemade pork rinds and pork "hash" sauce. Moonlite Bar-B-que Owensboro, Kentucky Hickory-smoked vinegar basted, salt and pepper rubbed mutton (sheep), "Burgoo" (thick stew with mutton, beef and chicken).
Sausage Paradise (2012) Restaurant Location Specialty(s) Gene's Sausage Shop Chicago, Illinois Alpine Sausage (double-smoked, double garlic pork Polish sausage from the Alpine region char-grilled to perfection) Alpine Cheddar (Alpine sausage stuffed with cheddar cheese) Ina's (Breakfast Queen) Chicago, Illinois Amylu Sausages – "Amy's Omlette" (apple & gouda cheese chicken sausage, Brie and asparagus stuffed omelette), veal chive sausage, Chorizo (Mexican sausage hash) and Andouille sausage Hominy Grill Charleston, South Carolina Pork shoulder sausage patties. "Big Nasty" (Southern-fried chicken breast and cheddar cheese between two big biscuits smothered with homemade pork sausage gravy) Southside Market & Barbeque Elgin, Texas "Elgin Sausage" (aka "Hot Guts") (smoked long-link natural casing beef sausage with a pepper fiery flavor grilled over post oak wood) Wurstküche (Sausage Kitchen) Venice Beach, California Exotic sausages: Char-grilled rattlesnake sausage, buffalo sausage, crocodile & pork Andouille sausage and duck & bacon sausage Old German Beer Hall Milwaukee, Wisconsin Usinger's Famous Sausage: Dunkel Beer and applewood bacon flavored bratwurst in a corn-dusted bun or fresh-baked pretzel roll Ferdinando's Focacceria Brooklyn, New York Homemade Italian sausages (Sicilian-style natural casing pork sausage with wild fennel, salt & pepper and secret spices), sausage Parmesan on a fresh-baked focaccia roll Horse Brass Pub Portland, Oregon "Bangers and Mash" (English-style pork water-plumped sausage with mashed potatoes, fried onions and green peas served with "pub mustard", Banger Sausage Roll (pigs in a blanket-style), Scotch Egg
Pot Pie Paradise (2012) Restaurant Location Specialty(s) Paul's Pot Pies Marietta, Georgia "Chicken Curry Pot Pie" (white meat chicken, broccoli, carrots, peas, basmati rice and golden curry sauce in ten-inch puff pastry crust) Centerville Pie Company Centerville, Massachusetts Chicken Pie (pie crust filled with 1-pound boiled white & dark meat chicken and 16-ounce of chicken stock gravy) Australian Bakery Cafe Marietta, Georgia Aussie meat pies. "Ned Kelly Pie" (hand-ground steak meat, egg, cheese, and bacon in a mini pie crust), "The Croc Hunter Pie" (filled with crocodile meat) Pleasant House Bakery Chicago, Illinois Yorkshire-style pies ("Royal Pies") "Steak and Ale Pie" (mini pie with beef stewed with seasonal ale, garlic, shallots, carrots, plum tomatoes, Worcestershire sauce and original spice blend of rosemary, sage, marjoram) Chicago Pizza and Oven Grinder Co. Lincoln Park, Chicago, Illinois Pizza Pot Pies (layered with Wisconsin brick cheese, whole-button mushrooms and tomato meat sauce capped with Sicilian-style dough) Acadene Maine Brasserie & Tavern @ Kennebunk Inn Kennebunk, Maine Lobster Pot Pie (tail, knuckle and claw lobster meat added to a cream-based spiced lobster stock with corn, potatoes and peas with a puffed pastry lid) Round-Abouts Restaurant Lincoln, Nebraska "Pot Pies with a Twist" ("Round" open-topped pie) "Reuben Round" (mini round of corned beef, Swiss cheese, sauerkraut, and thousand island dressing) "Yo-Yo's" (dessert filled round pies) Pot Pie Paradise & Deli Hayward, California Butternut Squash Pot Pie (roasted butternut squash and Yukon potatoes, onions, edamame, smoked gouda, parmesan, cream and nutmeg in pie crust)
Chili Paradise (2012) Restaurant Location Specialty(s) Texas Chili Parlor Austin, Texas "Bowl of Red" (Brisket, chuck, round, and shoulder meats, with a spice mix of dried onions, cilantro, oregano, cumin, and garlic powder, tomato juice, bock beer and 5 pounds of chili powder) "Frito Pie" (Fritos chips with cheese and chili) Phoenix Saloon New Braunfels, Texas Texas Red (sirloin beef, secret spices and William Gebhardt's original Mexican-style chili powder) "Double-Shot" (chili with sautéed serranos and habaneros) "Ring of Fire" (chili with a chipotle, habaneros and serranos purée) "The Killer" (Double-Shot & Ring of Fire chilis with a ghost pepper mixture) Joe Roger's The Den Chili Parlor Springfield, Illinois Firebrand Chili ("beef-n-beans blend" – ground beef, oil/secret spice mix and kidney beans) Camp Washington Chili Cincinnati, Ohio Chili-Covered Spaghetti (bull meat round ground beef with sautéed onions with secret spice blend of chili powder, paprika, and cinnamon) "2-Way" (chili & spaghetti) "3-Way" (chili, spaghetti and cheese) "4-Way" (chili, spaghetti, cheese and onions) "5-Way" (chili, spaghetti, cheese, onions and beans) Slim's Last Chance Seattle, Washington Turkey & White Bean Chili (ground turkey, sautéed serranos, jalapeños, red & green bell peppers, chopped garlic, onions with a spice blend of black pepper, smoked paprika, ancho chili powder, cumin, sage, and garlic salt, chicken broth and white beans), "Brisket & Bean Chili" (Texas Red-style chili with beans) White Knight Diner St. Louis, Missouri "Super Slinger" (hash browns, hamburger patty, eggs, American cheese, slathered with beef chili and sautéed vegetables on top) Chili Addiction West Hollywood, California "Jamaican Gold" (Jerk Chicken Chili – Ground chicken, garlic, cinnamon, ginger, habaneros, jalapeños and Thai chilies), "Spontaneous Combustion" (carne asada base chili with chipotles, serranos, Thai chilies and ghost peppers), "Maui Wowi" (chili with Maui onions) The Shed Santa Fe, New Mexico "Santa Fe Green" (Chile Verde Con Papas) ("Green chile with potatoes" – stewed pork, "Sandia" roasted New Mexico chile, garlic, pork base and jalapeños purée and potatoes)
Food Paradise: Manliest Restaurants 2 (2012) Note: This episode aired as a special on November 21, 2012.