The Original Mels Diner
232 Main St, Placerville
(530) 626-8072
Customers' Favorites
Chicken Fried Steak with Country Gravy Sauteed Mushrooms and Biscuit or Corn Bread
Mels Original Cheese Steak Sandwich
Mels San Francisco Scramble
Classic Shakes Malts
Milk Shake or Malt
Biscuits and Gravy
Doc's Banana Split
Classic Mels Fries
American Graffiti
Classic Melfries
Mels Famous Choice Angus Burgers
San Francisco Melburger
Grilled sourdough bread, a melburger patty, cheddar cheese, bacon, avocado, grilled onion with Thousand island dressing.
Deuce Coupe
Classic Melburger
Served with sliced tomato, lettuce, onion, and Thousand island dressing.
Bacon & Cheddar Melburger
Draped with cheddar cheese, two strips of bacon, lettuce, tomato, and onion, with Thousand island dressing.
Patty Melt
Grilled hamburger patty on rye bread with cheddar cheese, sautéed onion, and tomato slices.
Big Bopper
Our classic Melburger with cheddar cheese, bacon strips, and onion rings topped with barbecue sauce.
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.
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.
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
Corned Beef Hash & Eggs
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.
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.
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.
Ribeye Steak & 2 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.
Vegetarian
A blend of jack and Cheddar cheese, green onions, sliced avocado, sautéed mushrooms, tomato, and sour cream.
Meat & Cheese
Choose from country ham, sausage or bacon with jack and Cheddar cheeses.
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
Cheese Quesadilla
Jack and cheddar cheese with green onion, tomato, guacamole, salsa, and sour cream on a flour tortilla.
Mozzarella Sticks
Battered, fried.
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
Beer Battered Onion Rings
Sweet Spanish onions thick-cut, double dipped in beer batter and fried crispy.
Mels Shakes & Malts
Milk Shake or Malt
Choose your flavor and Make It a Malt if you please!
Salads
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 Cobb Salad
Lettuce, chopped bacon, diced chicken, avocado, green onions, egg, tomato, and bleu cheese crumbles.
Mels Baskets
Beer Battered Cod (3 Pieces)
Alaskan Cod served with tarter sauce , coleslaw 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
Jumbo Shrimp Basket (5 Pieces)
Served with cocktail or tarter sauce, cole slaw and Mels fries.
Mels Chicken Wings
Zesty and breaded. Have them tossed in sauce or on the side for dipping. 8 pcs
Chicken Tenderloin Strips
Juicy breaded tenderloin strips, fried golden brown. Served with your choice of sauce for dipping!
Blue Plate Dinners
Chicken-Fried Steak
Made in house, buttermilk battered and dusted in panko breading, topped with country gravy, sautéed mushrooms.
Deep Fried Chicken Dinner (4 Pieces)
Breaded and crisp on the outside, moist, and tender inside.
Fisherman's Platter
Three pieces of beer-battered Alaskan cod battered in a light, crispy batter. Served with tarter sauce.
Fresh Carved Turkey Platter
With dressing and cranberry sauce.
Steak & Jumbo Shrimp
We pair a delicious 6 oz. New York strip steak and 4 pieces of our jumbo fried shrimp.
Jumbo Shrimp Dinner
Six jumbo shrimp with a light oriental panko breading with a side of cocktail sauce.
Ribeye Steak Dinner
Mels Steaks with Eggs
6 oz. New York Steak & 2 Eggs
Chicken-Fried Steak & 2 Eggs
Ribeye steak & eggs
Mels Fries
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.
Curly Melfries
Chili Melfries
With cheddar and jack cheese and chopped onions.
Garlic Melfries
Sprinkled with parmesan cheese.
Cheese Melfries
With mixed jack and cheddar.
Sweet Potato Melfries
Mels Specialty Sandwiches
Club Sandwich
Carved breast of turkey, bacon, lettuce, tomato, and mayonnaise on white bread.
Grilled Cheese
With jack, cheddar, and American cheeses.
French Dip
Sliced USDA choice oven roasted beef simmered in au jus on a French roll.
Mels "Original Cheese Steak" Sandwich
This one has it all! Served on our hoagie-style bun with tender-sliced, grilled sirloin steak topped with sautéed mushrooms, grilled onions, and layered with cheese sauce, topped off with jalapeño and pepperoncini.
BLT-BLTA-BLTE
Classic with bacon, lettuce, and tomato.
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.
Reuben
Corned beef with Swiss cheese, sauerkraut, and Thousand island dressing on grilled rye.
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.
Mels Chili-Cheese Dog
Mels hot dog with chopped onions and melted cheese.
Chicken Club
Chicken breast served on our french roll, topped with jack cheese, avocado, bacon, lettuce, tomato, and mayonnaise.
Tuna Sand
Tuna Melt
Chicken, Turkey and Veggie Burgers
Cheddar Turkey Melburger
Mels turkey burger with mayo, topped with cheddar cheese 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.
Classic Crispy Chicken Melburger- Make it Hot or Not
Served on our signature bun with lettuce, tomato, and onion with a side of mayo.
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.
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.
Veggie Melburger
Served on our signature whole wheat bun with honey mustard dressing, lettuce, tomato, and pickle.
Specialty Hotcakes & Waffles
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
Strawberry Belgian Waffle
With whipped cream.
Belgian Waffle
Made with fresh eggs and sweet cream butter!
Strawberry Hotcakes
Full stack, with whipped cream.
Banana Hotcakes
Full Stack, fresh bananas cooked inside our buttermilk hotcakes, topped with whipped cream.
Bacon Hotcakes
Full stack with crispy bacon pieces cooked inside. A sweet and savory delight!
Blueberry Hotcakes
Full stack, bursting with blueberries and topped with whipped cream
Chocolate Chip Hotcakes
Full stack with Ghiradelli chocolate chips melted throughout. Topped with whipped cream.
Chicken & Waffle- w/strips
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
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.
Country Skillet
A combination of scrambled eggs, diced country sausage, link sausage, and bacon, all covered with melted mixed cheese and our country gravy.
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.
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.
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
Lemon Meringue Pie
A sweet-tart lemony filling topped with light fluffy meringue; a true American tradition.
Mels Fresh-Baked Pie
Mels fresh-baked pies apple or berry. Try it with Ice Cream!
Pie Apple
Pie Berry
Pie Lemon
Pie Pumpkin
Soups & Chili
Mels Chili Bowl
With buttermilk biscuit, melted cheddar cheese, and onion.
Beverages & Soda Fountain
Fountain Soft Drinks
Fresh Brewed Coffee
Juice (22 oz)
Milk (22 oz)
Root Beer Float
Root beer with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.
Root Beer Freeze
Root beer blended with premium vanilla ice cream.
Coke Freeze
Coke blended with premium vanilla ice cream.
Breakfast Side Orders
Egg (1)
Oatmeal
Mels Potatoes
Hash Browns
Toasted Bagel
Served with creamed cheese
Buttermilk Biscuit & Gravy
English Muffin with Jelly
Toast with Jelly
Side of Ham
Side of Sausage
Side of Bacon
Side of Country Sausage
Alcohol
Mimosa
Individual OJ with Chilled 187ml Bottle of Sparkling Wine to make your own in-home Mimosa!
Extras
Ranch
Avocado
Extra Cheese
Sauteed Mushrooms
Guacamole
Sour Cream
Utensils and Condiments
Ketchup Pkts
Hot sauce Pkts
Extra Npkns
Salt Pkts
Pepper Pkts
Fork
Knife
Spoon
Straw
Sugar
Sugar Sub
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Recent Reviews
We stopped for breakfast during our travels through the area. The diner is right of the highway so easy in and out with plenty of parking. It has a 50’s theme interior, think Mels’ from American Graffiti. We enjoyed our server, very prompt and personable. I had their homemade corned beef - So Good! My husband had the San Francisco Scramble which he enjoyed with their in house potatoes which he raved about. Mes’ was a nice place to stop for breakfast. We would eat here again.
January 2026
Gorgeous view of the hills. Really friendly and attentive service. Food was a bit salty but overall everything was delicious. Coffee was great and server was generous with the water servings.
December 2025
Where were you in 62'?
If you love 60's hamburger drive ins, this is it!! The Mel's burger is the best burger in town! A great place to eat. It is just like in the movie American Graffiti. Pics of George Lucas adorn the walls. A real cruising strip just outside the front door.
You must play Sixteen Candles, by the Crests, on a mini juke box, on every table. Just like in the movie. It really sets the mood. If not the entire...
If you love 60's hamburger drive ins, this is it!! The Mel's burger is the best burger in town! A great place to eat. It is just like in the movie American Graffiti. Pics of George Lucas adorn the walls. A real cruising strip just outside the front door.
You must play Sixteen Candles, by the Crests, on a mini juke box, on every table. Just like in the movie. It really sets the mood. If not the entire...
November 2025
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