The Original Mels
The Original Mels
Served with sliced tomato, lettuce, onion, and Thousand island dressing.
Grilled sourdough bread, a melburger patty, cheddar cheese, bacon, avocado, grilled onion with Thousand island dressing.
Fresh patty on our signature bun, brushed with mayonnaise stacked on top of golden onion straws, draped with Swiss cheese and smothered in sauted mushrooms.
Draped with cheddar cheese, two strips of bacon, lettuce, tomato, and onion, with Thousand island dressing.
Our classic Melburger with cheddar cheese, bacon strips, and onion rings topped with barbecue sauce.
Topped with sliced tomato, jalapeos, lettuce, grilled onions, Thousand island dressing and pepper jack cheese.
Grilled hamburger patty on rye bread with cheddar cheese, sauted onion, and tomato slices.
Beef patty topped with bleu cheese crumbles, deep-fried onion straws, lettuce, and tomato.
With chopped onions and melted cheese.
Breakfast sandwich with two scrambled eggs and your choice of bacon, ham or country sausage, and American cheese, served on grilled, thick sourdough bread.
Tortilla filled with two eggs scrambled with cheese, country sausage, Mels potatoes, and a touch of country gravy. Comes with a side of sour cream and salsa.
10oz Ribeye served with 2 farm fresh eggs, choice of potatoes and toast
A large, grilled flour tortilla stuffed with smoked bacon, scrambled eggs, tomato, avocado, and cheese. Served with a side of salsa.
Three fresh eggs, ground beef, Mels seasoning salt, fresh mushrooms, and spinach scrambled with green onions and topped with Parmesan cheese. Served with toast.
Our big, three-egg omelette stuffed with tomato, bacon, cheese, and sliced avocado, topped with a dollop of sour cream.
Three-egg omelette stuffed with ham, grilled peppers, onions, and cheese mix. Served with hash browns or Mels potatoes and toast.
Choose from country ham, sausage or bacon with jack and Cheddar cheeses.
A blend of jack and Cheddar cheese, green onions, sliced avocado, sauted mushrooms, tomato, and sour cream.
Egg whites with Swiss cheese, fresh sauted mushrooms, diced tomato, avocado, and fresh spinach. Served with fresh fruit instead of potatoes.
Chicken strips, onion rings, mozzarella sticks, and chicken wings on a bed of melfries with ranch dressing and bbq sauce.
Battered, fried.
Mels original or try them with buffalo sauce. Served with your choice of sauce. 8 pcs
Sweet Spanish onions thick-cut, double dipped in beer batter and fried crispy.
Jack and cheddar cheese with green onion, tomato, guacamole, salsa, and sour cream on a flour tortilla.
Choose your flavor and Make It a Malt if you please!
Fresh diced tomatoes, crumbled bacon, sliced hardboiled egg, and shredded jack and cheddar cheese on a bed of crisp lettuce and topped with crispy sliced chicken or buffalo-style chicken dipped in our hot wing sauce.
Lettuce, chopped bacon, diced chicken, avocado, green onions, egg, tomato, and bleu cheese crumbles.
Juicy breaded tenderloin strips, fried golden brown. Served with your choice of sauce for dipping!
Zesty and breaded. Have them tossed in sauce or on the side for dipping. 8 pcs
With three pieces of jumbo shrimp and two pieces of beer battered Alaskan cod. Served with cocktail and tarter sauce, coleslaw and Mels fries
Alaskan Cod served with tarter sauce , coleslaw and Mels fries.
Served with cocktail or tarter sauce, cole slaw and Mels fries.
Giant, half-pound crispy chicken fried steak, topped with country gravy, sauted mushrooms.
With dressing and cranberry sauce.
10oz Ribeye steak, topped with sauteed mushrooms, choice of 2 sides and homemade cornbread
We pair a delicious 6 oz. New York strip steak and 4 pieces of our jumbo fried shrimp.
Three pieces of beer-battered Alaskan cod battered in a light, crispy batter. Served with tarter sauce.
Six jumbo shrimp with a light oriental panko breading with a side of cocktail sauce.
Giant, half-pound, all beef chicken fried steak, covered in country gravy. Served with 2 large eggs, choice of potatoes and toast.
10oz Ribeye served with 2 farm fresh eggs, choice of potatoes and toast
Melfries covered with chopped bacon, melted jack, and cheddar cheeses, diced green onions and a dollop of sour cream.
With cheddar and jack cheese and chopped onions.
Skin on and sprinkled with Mels special seasoning
Sprinkled with parmesan cheese.
With mixed jack and cheddar.
Classic with bacon, lettuce, and tomato.
Carved breast of turkey, bacon, lettuce, tomato, and mayonnaise on white bread.
Sliced USDA choice oven roasted beef simmered in au jus on a French roll.
Chicken breast served on our french roll, topped with jack cheese, avocado, bacon, lettuce, tomato, and mayonnaise.
Corned beef with Swiss cheese, sauerkraut, and Thousand island dressing on grilled rye.
Served on our hoagie-style bun with tender-sliced, grilled sirloin steak topped with grilled onions, and layered with cheese and topped off with jalapeo and pepperoncini.
With jack, cheddar, and American cheeses.
With jack, cheddar, and American cheeses with sliced ham.
A full quarter pound, 100% all-beef hot dog, sliced, and grilled. Served on a steak roll with lettuce, tomato, pickles, avocado, and sliced onions.
Mels hot dog with chopped onions and melted cheese.
With lettuce, tomato, and mayonnaise served on a hamburger bun.
Served on our signature bun with lettuce, tomato, and onion with a side of mayo.
Chicken breast with cheddar cheese, bacon strips, and onion rings topped with BBQ sauce and served on our signature bun.
Our crispy chicken breast served on our grilled signature bun, smothered in provolone and shredded parmesan cheeses. Topped with our righ meat sauce
Served on our signature whole wheat bun with honey mustard dressing, lettuce, tomato, and pickle.
Our grilled chicken breast dressed up with cheddar cheese, strips of bacon, lettuce, tomato, and a creamy mustard sauce, served on our signature whole wheat bun.
Served on our signature bun with bacon, lettuce, tomato, mayonnaise, and onion straws.
Chicken breast with jack cheese, green chiles, lettuce, tomato, guacamole, and salsa served on a wheat bun.
Two hotcakes or waffle, two bacon or two sausage links and two eggs, any style.
Full stack with Ghiradelli chocolate chips melted throughout. Topped with whipped cream.
Served with whipped butter and syrup
With whipped cream.
Made with fresh eggs and sweet cream butter!
Full stack, bursting with blueberries and topped with whipped cream
Full stack, with whipped cream.
With your choice of ham, sliced avocado or country sausage on a grilled English muffin, topped with poached eggs and hollandaise sauce.
Grilled English muffin halves topped with three strips of bacon, grilled tomato slices, avocado, poached eggs, and topped with hollandaise sauce.
Grilled English muffin halves topped with sliced tomato, fresh spinach, poached eggs, and topped with hollandaise sauce.
Choice of potatoes, two biscuits, two sausage links, two pieces of bacon, and ham steak. Smothered in country gravy and topped with three eggs any style.
We cover your choice of potatoes with two biscuits, two country sausages and country gravy and top it with two eggs any style.
A combination of scrambled eggs, diced country sausage, link sausage, and bacon, all covered with melted mixed cheese and our country gravy.
Bacon and green chiles scrambled with eggs and topped with avocado and melted cheese. Served with salsa and sour cream on the side.
With choice of four pieces of bacon or four sausage links.
With choice of country sausage, hamburger patty or ham steak.
Sliced oven roasted turkey with dressing and cranberry sauce.
Served with cornbread, melted cheddar cheese, and onion.
Root beer blended with premium vanilla ice cream.
Root beer with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.
Coke blended with premium vanilla ice cream.
Served with creamed cheese
Individual OJ with Chilled 187ml Bottle of Sparkling Wine to make your own in-home Mimosa!
Ribey steak (10oz), eggs, hash browns
Ribey steak (10oz), eggs, hash browns
Ribey steak (10oz), eggs, hash browns
Sourdough Toast
Blueberry Muffin
Current menu
Spinach & Mushroom egg white Omelette
menu
2+2
interior
Bacon, biscuits/gravy, eggs, and potatoes
Current menu
interior
Asked for steak to be cooked rare. And got burnt over cooked steak with soggy mels potatoes.
interior
Beer Battered Onion Rings
menu, sushi and sashimi
Kids eggs with sausage and hash
Michelle L.
Oct 30, 2024
Mel's finally reopened in September 2024, after repairs from their May 2023 attic fire. Very clean, with American Graffiti decor and color scheme, and bright lighting.Dayna was our evening server, super nice! There were maybe two other tables with folks dining in. Otherwise not packed, and kinda slow business (so much so that they sometimes close early). Breakfast all day!I had the 2+2 which was two pancakes, 2 eggs (I chose scrambled), and either bacon or sausage (I got applewood smoked bacon). Shared the shareable zesty wings basket, with sauce on the side (buffalo, ranch, and/or BBQ), and fries. My boo got the country skillet with hashbrowns rather than country potatoes, sausage, bacon, and gravy, choice of bread, and spread for toast. We were seated right away, and iced water and straws were provided. The wings came out first, then the breakfast items. We did not avail ourselves of the 25-cents-each jukebox selection at the table/booth, but the music playing did fit the classic diner vibe.
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Stephanie G.
Dec 25, 2024
Read reviews ahead of me - all accurate. I honestly had to get up to ask for coffee because I only received one and was choking on the microwave heated biscuit and gravy :( I seen them do it. Then got rotten avocados , every plate minutes apart but by then they are cold. I can go on and on but you get the point. Not a good Christmas breakfast; quite embarrassed to have brought my mom to eat burnt bacon
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Myra B.
Nov 19, 2024
Good food. Newly renovated. Employees are nice. Will probably try this place again. You have to take bill to counter in front to pay.
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William S.
Feb 7, 2025
This is a classic greasy spoon diner. The coffee was super strong but bitter, the eggs and meats were coated with butter. The pancakes were great with the vanilla. The staff was attentive but let customers enjoy their meals without hovering. The restaurant was clean but there was an inflatable arm swinging advertisement right outside the door with a loud drone. If I were a local, I could see coming back when I have no specific idea for food but wanted something filling
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Mari S.
Nov 26, 2024
Went in for breakfast and thought it would be better now that this location had reopened after a long remodel but service was not as great as before. Waiter did not come to check on us and after he brought the first plate it took about 10 minutes for second plate to arrive. Ordered the California omelette, the Two plus two and zesty chicken wings. The wings are still great tasting like before. They have the perfect amount of zesty spice flavor In the batter. I prefer them with no sauce but they also taste great with ranch dressing. The 2+2 was not that great, the bacon & eggs were overcooked. I ordered over medium eggs and yolks were completely cooked. The pancakes I only took one bite of because they were too dark and looked as if they had left them on the grill, a little too long. They were very rough and hard to cut through. The California omelette was good a portion size but the hash browns served with them were dry and no flavor. Somewhat tasted like they were frozen and reheated. I more than likely would only visit again for the wings. Those have always been one of my favorites. The inside of restaurant was clean and well kept up.
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Julia D.
Jan 16, 2025
So glad we have a Mel's in Natomas. The owners are amazing, and provide excellent service. Highly recommend!
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Anne N James N.
Oct 10, 2024
So happy to finally check out this Mel's Diner after being closed for construction upgrades! I love how the hostess asked for our drink order after she sat us down. It was a hot day and we were thirsty! Next Jessica took care of us as we ordered our delicious Mel's Sampler (chicken strips, buffalo wings, beer battered onion rings, fries, mozzarella sticks, BBQ sauce, ranch dressing and marinara dipping sauce), Philly cheesesteak sandwich, corned beef and hash, and kid's grilled cheese sandwich. Delicious food, great hospitality, reasonable prices, clean restaurant and restrooms, love the music from back in the day and cheerful ambience! Thank you, Jessica, for taking great care of our family!
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Georgina V.
Dec 15, 2024
We came for the first time after it reopened & we're not impressed. We started going to the one downtown & the food there is a lot better and prices a lot cheaper!!! We normally spend $30 on breakfast max for us and our son downtown we came here last week and it was around $55 for the same thing :(
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Chris W.
Mar 2, 2025
Service was attentive from Asian waitress, dining room was bright and clean, my kid's mac and cheese was very dry and bland, my chicken fried steak was very low quality, my clam chowder was creamy with excellent flavor but it was served in barely warm temperatures, 2 stars for the food at best, prices were high compared to the quality.
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Reuben L.
Feb 12, 2025
This place is great! I went for breakfast on a weekday and got the 12.99 steak and eggs special.Steak was big and delicious. Service was great!Cool music and vibes too!
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