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Maggie Sanford, a researcher with the Food Network contacted the Weekly Volcano a few days ago regarding an upcoming episode of Diners, Drive-Ins, & Dives centered on the Seattle/Tacoma area.

I’m a Researcher for the television show Diners, Drive-Ins, & Dives, which appears on the Food Network.  I’m scouting the Seattle/Tacoma area for restaurants to possibly feature on our show, and I was hoping that you and your staff at the Volcano might be able to help me out.  If you’re not familiar with our show, we’re most interested in smaller, CHEAP, independently-owned restaurants that have excellent food; diners, drive-ins, & dives are best, of course, but we don’t care if the place is Italian, Ethiopian, Filipino, or whatever, as long as if the place looks super un-fancy, has low prices and awesome food.  I’ve checked out many of your official food recs online, but I wanted to ask you directly if you and your staff might be so kind as to give it a think and let me know your personal favorite places to eat -- and feel free to circulate the email to family and friends.  Unfortunately, I’m unable to actually visit the regions I’m scouting before we book the shoots, so the input of locals like yourselves is utterly invaluable.  For realz.
 

That's cool. We're happy to help. For realz.

And so are The News Tribune and Exit133 apparently. Researcher Maggie has done her homework. I think my mom received her email, too.