For the first time in a long time, Guy Fieri’s “Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives” returns to Alabama in an episode premiering Friday night. Here’s what we know going in.

The tease for a while has been that the fifth episode of “Triple D’s” 38th season, titled “East, South, West,” will feature a stop in Mobile, where “a farm-to-table joint is cooking up killer crawfish etouffee and chicken-fried quail.” The episode also serves up Philly cheesesteaks in Greenwich, Conn., and “a lights-out lamb flatbread” in Cody, Wyo.

Though the Food Network hasn’t gone big with the name of the Mobile venue, it served up a skillet-sized hint on its webpage for the episode, which includes a recipe for “The Noble South Heirloom Cornbread.” A network representative confirmed that The Noble South, at 203 Dauphin St. in downtown Mobile, is indeed the featured spot.

It promises to be the first of several. Fieri was in the area back in June, and Mobile area-restaurateur “Panini Pete” Blohme, a longtime Fieri collaborator, said afterward that Food Network crews had hit six area venues for future episodes of “DDD.” That’s a big deal: A fan site that tracks “DDD” locations says the show has featured more than 1,400 restaurants since 2008. But only four of those have been in Alabama, and those came when Fieri hit a string of Eastern Shore venues in 2008.

The locations and airdates for all six new segments haven’t yet been confirmed by the Food Network. “East, South, West” will air for the first time at 8 p.m. Central time on Friday, Oct. 20. More airings follow at 11 p.m. Friday; 10 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 4; 1 a.m. Sunday, Nov. 5; and 6 p.m. Friday, Nov. 24.

The next episode, premiering at 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 27, is titled “Sandwich-Fest” and it’ll showcase the Wagyu French Dip sandwich and other treats at Southwood Kitchen in Daphne.

Noble South owner Chris Rainosek couldn’t give away any spoilers ahead of Friday’s premiere, but said the filming experience had been a good one.

“We were obviously honored to be to be asked, and his team was great,” said Rainosek. “We did have a really good experience with all that. They were super nice, super helpful. [They] made it really easy on us [and] treated all our guests very well.”

The same went for Fieri himself. Rainosek said it wasn’t stressful having the celebrity chef in his kitchen, looking over his shoulder.

“He was very generous with his time and very curious and very appreciative of what we were trying to do with the restaurant as a whole,” Rainosek said. “We kind of explained, you know, the concept and what we try to do as far as a place that highlights local ingredients and puts our own spin on Southern food.”

Rainosek, who’d previously been a chef at The Wash House in Fairhope, opened The Noble South in 2014. Its farm-to-table approach to elevated Southern cuisine set it apart. Eye-catching options on the current menu include Radiatore Pasta with an alligator Bolognese sauce; pork belly with heirloom rice and peas; redfish with cream kale and fall squash; fig crepes (on the brunch menu); a Wagyu cheeseburger; and small plates including Mapo tofu, Chesapeake Bay scallops and beef tartare.

The Noble South will mark 10 years this spring, a significant milestone for a venue that rapidly became an institution.

“We’ve been very lucky to have developed the relationship with the city that we have,” said Rainosek. “I think we’ve turned people on to lots of new things and new ideas as far as food goes, that maybe was a little bit outside the norm, especially before we got here.”

Looking back, he sees that The Noble South opened at the beginning of a boom that brought 30 or more new restaurants to downtown. He appreciates the development of Mobile’s dining scene and said that was part of his motivation for agreeing to be on the show.

“It’s been really cool to see it kind of grow up, and and we’ve always taken the mindset that, you know, just the more people we can get down here is kind of better for every everybody,” he said.

“Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives” can be seen via cable and streaming providers that carry the Food Network, and via www.foodnetwork.com. Streaming services that carry Food Network programming include Philo and FuboTV.