Best Bite in Town

Six restaurants are profiled within one town by three chef personalities, each scouting two locations and then choosing the best of their two. Then, the final three restaurants submit their best dish to local judges to see who wins $5,000 for their restaurant and a charity of their choice.

This series adds a competitive element to the usual food travel concept, and showcases just how appetizing lesser-known areas' cuisine can be. This series boosts tourism for often-overlooked places and helps good causes at the same time.

The third episode, set in Joplin, MO, blew me away with how good the food looked and the flavors the chefs were imparting. Just like that, a town I'd never have considered stopping by or living in now seems much more interesting. If a television show can do that for traditionally less eye-catching places, that's only a good thing in my book.