The Original Mels Diner

1441 Fitzgerald Dr, Pinole
(510) 223-6357

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Customers' Favorites

Mels Original Cheese Steak Sandwich
Mels San Francisco Scramble
Chicken & Waffle- W Strips
Mels Crispy Chicken Salad
Mels Buttermilk Hotcakes 2
Chicken Club Sandwich
Fried Chicken Dinner
Sweet Potato Fries
Side of Hash Browns
Chicken & Waffles

Menu

Mels Famous Choice Angus Burgers
Mushroom & Swiss Melburger
Fresh patty on our signature bun, brushed with mayonnaise stacked on top of golden onion straws, draped with Swiss cheese and smothered in sautéed mushrooms.
Bacon & Cheddar Melburger
Draped with cheddar cheese, two strips of bacon, lettuce, tomato, and onion, with Thousand island dressing.
Classic Melburger
Served with sliced tomato, lettuce, onion, and Thousand island dressing.
San Francisco Melburger
Grilled sourdough bread, a melburger patty, cheddar cheese, bacon, avocado, grilled onion with Thousand island dressing.
Deuce Coupe
Big Bopper
Our classic Melburger with cheddar cheese, bacon strips, and onion rings topped with barbecue sauce.
Patty Melt
Grilled hamburger patty on rye bread with cheddar cheese, sautéed onion, and tomato slices.
Jalapeño Melburger
Topped with sliced tomato, jalapeños, lettuce, grilled onions, Thousand island dressing and pepper jack cheese.
Bleu Melburger- Make it HOT or Not
Beef patty topped with bleu cheese crumbles, deep-fried onion straws, lettuce, and tomato.
Chili Melburger
With chopped onions and melted cheese.

Breakfast Favorites
Breakfast Burrito
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.
Wolfman Jack
Sunrise Sandwich
Breakfast sandwich with two scrambled eggs and your choice of bacon, ham or country sausage, and American cheese, served on grilled, thick sourdough bread.
Ribeye Steak & 2 Eggs
10oz Ribeye served with 2 farm fresh eggs, choice of potatoes and toast
Bacon, Egg & Avocado Burrito
A large, grilled flour tortilla stuffed with smoked bacon, scrambled eggs, tomato, avocado, and cheese. Served with a side of salsa.
Mels San Francisco Scramble
Three fresh eggs, ground beef, Mels seasoning salt, fresh mushrooms, and spinach scrambled with green onions and topped with Parmesan cheese. Served with toast.
Corned Beef Hash & Eggs

Mels Three-Egg Omelettes
California Omelette
Our big, three-egg omelette stuffed with tomato, bacon, cheese, and sliced avocado, topped with a dollop of sour cream.
Denver Omelette
Three-egg omelette stuffed with ham, grilled peppers, onions, and cheese mix. Served with hash browns or Mels potatoes and toast.
Meat & Cheese
Choose from country ham, sausage or bacon with jack and Cheddar cheeses.
Vegetarian
A blend of jack and Cheddar cheese, green onions, sliced avocado, sautéed mushrooms, tomato, and sour cream.
Egg-White Omelette
Egg whites with Swiss cheese, fresh sautéed mushrooms, diced tomato, avocado, and fresh spinach. Served with fresh fruit instead of potatoes.

Starters & Shareables
Beer Battered Onion Rings
Sweet Spanish onions thick-cut, double dipped in beer batter and fried crispy.
New Recipe Mels Sampler
Chicken strips, onion rings, mozzarella sticks, and chicken wings on a bed of melfries with ranch dressing and bbq sauce.
Mels Zesty Chicken Wings
Mels original or try them with buffalo sauce. Served with your choice of sauce. 8 pcs
Mozzarella Sticks
Battered, fried.
Cheese Quesadilla
Jack and cheddar cheese with green onion, tomato, guacamole, salsa, and sour cream on a flour tortilla.

Mels Shakes & Malts
Milk Shake or Malt
Choose your flavor and Make It a Malt if you please!

Salads
Mels Cobb Salad
Lettuce, chopped bacon, diced chicken, avocado, green onions, egg, tomato, and bleu cheese crumbles.
Mels Crispy Chicken Salad
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.

Mels Baskets
Chicken Tenderloin Strips
Juicy breaded tenderloin strips, fried golden brown. Served with your choice of sauce for dipping!
Jumbo Shrimp Basket (5 Pieces)
Served with cocktail or tarter sauce, cole slaw and Mels fries.
The Combo
With three pieces of jumbo shrimp and two pieces of beer battered Alaskan cod. Served with cocktail and tarter sauce, coleslaw and Mels fries
Mels Chicken Wings
Zesty and breaded. Have them tossed in sauce or on the side for dipping. 8 pcs
Beer Battered Cod (3 Pieces)
Alaskan Cod served with tarter sauce , coleslaw and Mels fries.

Blue Plate Dinners
Spaghetti and Meatballs
A Mels Favorite! Our rich meat sauce tossed with a generous bowl of spaghetti and topped with two jumbo meatballs, sprinkled with parmesan cheese. Served with our new country style garlic bread. No additional sides served.
Chicken-Fried Steak
Giant, half-pound crispy chicken fried steak, topped with country gravy, sautéed mushrooms.
Fresh Carved Turkey Platter
With dressing and cranberry sauce.
Jumbo Shrimp Dinner
Six jumbo shrimp with a light oriental panko breading with a side of cocktail sauce.
Fisherman's Platter
Three pieces of beer-battered Alaskan cod battered in a light, crispy batter. Served with tarter sauce.
Ribeye Steak Dinner
10oz Ribeye steak, topped with sauteed mushrooms, choice of 2 sides and homemade cornbread
Steak & Jumbo Shrimp
We pair a delicious 6 oz. New York strip steak and 4 pieces of our jumbo fried shrimp.

Mels Steaks with Eggs
Chicken-Fried Steak & 2 Eggs
Giant, half-pound, all beef chicken fried steak, covered in country gravy. Served with 2 eggs, choice of potatoes and toast.
Ribeye steak & eggs
10oz Ribeye served with 2 farm fresh eggs, choice of potatoes and toast
6 oz. New York Steak & 2 Eggs

Mels Fries
Chili Melfries
With cheddar and jack cheese and chopped onions.
Garlic Melfries
Sprinkled with parmesan cheese.
Classic Melfries
Skin on and sprinkled with Mels special seasoning
Gourmet Melfries
Melfries covered with chopped bacon, melted jack, and cheddar cheeses, diced green onions and a dollop of sour cream.
Cheese Melfries
With mixed jack and cheddar.

Mels Specialty Sandwiches
Chicken Club
Chicken breast served on our french roll, topped with jack cheese, avocado, bacon, lettuce, tomato, and mayonnaise.
Reuben
Corned beef with Swiss cheese, sauerkraut, and Thousand island dressing on grilled rye.
Meaty Meatball Sandwich
Grilled french roll stuffed with Italian meatballs, rich meat sauce and melted provolone cheese
Club Sandwich
Carved breast of turkey, bacon, lettuce, tomato, and mayonnaise on white bread.
Mels "Original Cheese Steak" Sandwich
Served on our hoagie-style bun with tender-sliced, grilled sirloin steak topped with grilled onions, and layered with cheese and topped off with jalapeño and pepperoncini.
French Dip
Sliced USDA choice oven roasted beef simmered in au jus on a French roll.
Tuna Melt
Grilled Cheese
With jack, cheddar, and American cheeses.
BLT-BLTA-BLTE
Classic with bacon, lettuce, and tomato.
Mels Chili-Cheese Dog
Mels hot dog with chopped onions and melted cheese.
Meldog
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.
Grilled Ham & Cheese
With jack, cheddar, and American cheeses with sliced ham.
Fresh Roasted Turkey
With lettuce, tomato, and mayonnaise served on a hamburger bun.
Tuna Sand

Chicken and Veggie Burgers
Crispy Chicken Parmesan Sandwich
Our crispy chicken breast served on our grilled signature bun, smothered in provolone and shredded parmesan cheeses. Topped with our righ meat sauce
Classic Crispy Chicken Melburger- Make it Hot or Not
Served on our signature bun with lettuce, tomato, and onion with a side of mayo.
Veggie Melburger
Served on our signature whole wheat bun with honey mustard dressing, lettuce, tomato, and pickle.
Gourmet Chicken Melburger
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.
BBQ Crispy Chicken Melburger
Chicken breast with cheddar cheese, bacon strips, and onion rings topped with BBQ sauce and served on our signature bun.
Santa Fe Chicken Melburger
Chicken breast with jack cheese, green chiles, lettuce, tomato, guacamole, and salsa served on a wheat bun.
Chicken Bacon Melburger
Served on our signature bun with bacon, lettuce, tomato, mayonnaise, and onion straws.

Specialty Hotcakes & Waffles
Chocolate Chip Hotcakes
Full stack with chocolate chips melted throughout. Topped with whipped cream.
Blueberry Hotcakes
Full stack, bursting with blueberries and topped with whipped cream
Chicken & Waffle- w/strips
2+2
Two hotcakes or waffle, two bacon or two sausage links and two eggs, any style.
Buttermilk Hotcakes
Served with whipped butter and syrup
Belgian Waffle
Made with fresh eggs and sweet cream butter!
Strawberry Hotcakes
Full stack, with whipped cream.
Strawberry Belgian Waffle
With whipped cream.

Eggs Benedicts
Eggs Benedict
With your choice of ham, sliced avocado or country sausage on a grilled English muffin, topped with poached eggs and hollandaise sauce.
California Benedict
Grilled English muffin halves topped with three strips of bacon, grilled tomato slices, avocado, poached eggs, and topped with hollandaise sauce.
Eggs Florentine
Grilled English muffin halves topped with sliced tomato, fresh spinach, poached eggs, and topped with hollandaise sauce.

Mels Skillets
Hangover II
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.
Country Skillet
A combination of scrambled eggs, diced country sausage, link sausage, and bacon, all covered with melted mixed cheese and our country gravy.
Santa Fe Skillet
Bacon and green chiles scrambled with eggs and topped with avocado and melted cheese. Served with salsa and sour cream on the side.
The Hangover
We cover your choice of potatoes with two biscuits, two country sausages and country gravy and top it with two eggs any style.

Breakfast Eggs by the #
2. 2 Eggs, 3 Sausages or 3 Strips of Bacon
4. Eggs (3)
With choice of four pieces of bacon or four sausage links.
5. Eggs (2)
With choice of country sausage, hamburger patty or ham steak.

Hot Open-Faced Sandwiches
Fresh Oven Roasted Turkey
Sliced oven roasted turkey with dressing and cranberry sauce.

Sweet Treats
Pie Apple
Pie Pumpkin
Pie Lemon
Pie Berry

Soups & Chili
Mels Chili Bowl
Served with cornbread, melted cheddar cheese, and onion.

Beverages & Soda Fountain
Fountain Soft Drinks
Juice (22 oz)
Root Beer Float
Root beer with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.
Fresh Brewed Coffee
Root Beer Freeze
Root beer blended with premium vanilla ice cream.
Coke Freeze
Coke blended with premium vanilla ice cream.
Milk (22 oz)

Breakfast Side Orders
Side of Bacon
Hash Browns
Side of Sausage
Mels Potatoes
Egg (1)
Side of Country Sausage
Buttermilk Biscuit & Gravy
Toasted Bagel
Served with creamed cheese
Oatmeal
English Muffin with Jelly
Toast with Jelly
Side of Ham

Extras
Ranch
Avocado
Guacamole
Sour Cream

Utensils and Condiments
Fork
Knife
Extra Npkns
Ketchup Pkts
Hot sauce Pkts
Straw
Pepper Pkts
Salt Pkts
Spoon
Sugar
Sugar Sub

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Recent Reviews

This was my first time at Mels! I didn't know what to expect but I was pleasantly surprised! The menu had so many options. You could choose from burgers to salads or steak. The restaurant is like a 50s diner and the staff were so accommodating. We went on the 4th of july and everyone was in such great spirits. Talking about spirits... THEY EVEN HAVE MICHELADAS! Definitely coming back when we are in the area!
July 2025
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Food
Pretty expected for what they were offering, Nothing they messed up on with the sunny-side up eggs, country potatoes, and ribeye steak.

Service
Server was incredibly accommodating and genial. She was knowledgeable about the menu, and even had a spare AI steak bottle in her apron pocket!

To be honest, I wasn't impressed with the first Mel's...
September 2024
Wow, what a delight. We found this hidden jem. Took me all the way back to the good-ole-days!! The service was awesome, but the food was superb!. They have that 50's, 60's, 70's menu, all the classics!! Just what I used to order when I was a kid, like Root Beer Floats, Malt-shakes, Turky dinner any time, etc. This is a must do for old and young alike, you won't be disappointed. I highly recommend you try this for breakfast, lunch, or dinner. You'll thank...
July 2024

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The Original Mels Diner

1441 Fitzgerald Dr, Pinole, CA 94564
(510) 223-6357