Mel's Diner

100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City
(800) 864-8377

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unique tweek

Definitely worth a visit for the fries and shakes. I had the Slider trio as pictures and food was passable. Staff was courteous although not on point.

Definitely worth a visit for the quarter table jukebox and fries with a shake.

Enjoy!!!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 3

Service: 3

Lori S

Fun environment with good diner type food. Mixed veggies were great!

Frankie B

Only ate the food because I was starving, waited 49 mins for a seat and overpaid. Look at this chaos - this is the “ready for pickup” line.

Fries were dry. Spicy chicken made me feel like I was going to sink to the bottom of the ocean.

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 3

Service: 2

Will Thomas

Absolutely do not go there during busy times. They are very unorganized, charge you first before making you wait for 30 minutes. The food is prepared in advance and is just sitting there until cold before they give you your order.

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 2

Service: 1

Hector Granados

Do not order the tuna melt, the tuna we had was bad. Everyone who ate it went straight to the restroom 🚽

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 3

Service: 1

Michael Myers

Chili cheese fries and tuna sandwich was good

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 3

Service: 3

christina_in_wny

I was excited to eat here, but our experience was disappointing. We travel a lot and I am not hard to please and rarely leave negative reviews. This was the worst service I’ve had at a restaurant in a long time. I don’t know if our server was new or what but he was awful. He came up to the table with waters (great!) and said something about “oh you wanted an apple juice, right?” I told him no, we hadn’t ordered anything yet. No problem yet, confusion happens. We order milkshakes and food. The food comes. The milkshakes don’t. We eat most of our food. I finally realize our milkshakes are sitting on the counter where the food comes out, melting, undelivered. We finally ask some other server walking by if we can get our milkshakes that have been sitting up there. They arrive. They should have been remade. My cherry was 6 feet under. We drink our warm, melted milkshakes. Now we’re waiting for the bill. Never saw our server again. Again, the hostess walks by and my husband asks if we can get our bill. She informs us that we just go up front to pay and they have it all on the computer, no bill needed. I guess you’re supposed to know that via telepathy. Wish we had just gone to Johnny Rocket’s across the street.

Leland Dippold

Cool place with good food

JoeDaReviewNut

Had the grilled chicken entree and it was so incredibly delicious I gave them a clean plate in return. It is so nice while traveling to actually find a decent healthy and perfect meal. Especially for a diner who's monikers are usually greasy spoons but definitely not here. Clean sanitary and in business for a reason for all these years and many more to come based on what I experienced. Everything from the location to the history plus the incredible food and service was beyond 5 stars. Needless to say I would be a weekly repeat customer if I lived closer. Thank you to the entire staff for the excellent service atmosphere and perfect dining experience.

HW Y

Chicken pot pie is a joke. You're going to regret getting it.

Costco Hot Dog and any frozen chicken pot pie is better than this.

It opened at 1030am on the day of my visit.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 1

Service: 1

Butter 002

Food looked bigger in photos, tasted miserable, not the best. Service was Alright, kind workers. Atmosphere has a 50s feel to it. Could be better.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 2

Service: 3

Michelle Matury

There's nothing to complain about, but there was also nothing exceptional.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 4

Service: 5

Einer Chavez

The burger and the fries were good when I went there for grad bash! I don’t understand why you guys don’t like it😕

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Noreen Gurule

The food was good the first time we went the second time ..my fried chicken was so gross I only ate the chicken pieces in the crust. Very disappointing because the plate was $28
The service was good and the other people I went with they said their food was good . One had the turkey dinner and the other had the BLT salad. I don't think I'll be back though.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 1

Service: 4

Heidi Sommerfeld Stevenson

My husband and I took our granddaughters there. The kids meals are brought out in car boxes. So cute. The atmosphere of an old time dinner was fun. The food was good.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 4

Service: 5

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