The Original Mels Diner
171 Nut Tree Pkwy, Vacaville
(707) 451-4811
Customers' Favorites
Mels Original Cheese Steak Sandwich
2 Fried Eggs and Hash Browns
Buttermilk Biscuit & Gravy
Grilled Cheese Sandwich
Big Bopper Hamburger
Belgian Waffle Combo
Milk Shake or Malt
Biscuits and Gravy
Burger and Fries
Chicken Sandwich
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.
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.
Chili Melburger
With chopped onions and melted cheese.
Deuce Coupe
Bleu Melburger- Make it HOT or Not
Beef patty topped with bleu cheese crumbles, deep-fried onion straws, lettuce, and tomato.
Jalapeño Melburger
Topped with sliced tomato, jalapeños, lettuce, grilled onions, Thousand island dressing and pepper jack cheese.
Breakfast Favorites
Wolfman Jack
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.
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.
Corned Beef Hash & Eggs
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 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.
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.
Denver Omelette
Three-egg omelette stuffed with ham, grilled peppers, onions, and cheese mix. Served with hash browns or Mels potatoes and toast.
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.
Mozzarella Sticks
Battered, fried.
Mels Zesty Chicken Wings
Mels original or try them with buffalo sauce. Served with your choice of sauce. 8 pcs
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.
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
Mels Chicken Wings
Zesty and breaded. Have them tossed in sauce or on the side for dipping. 8 pcs
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.
Steak & Jumbo Shrimp
We pair a delicious 6 oz. New York strip steak and 4 pieces of our jumbo fried shrimp.
Ribeye Steak Dinner
10oz Ribeye steak, topped with sauteed mushrooms, choice of 2 sides and homemade cornbread
Fisherman's Platter
Three pieces of beer-battered Alaskan cod battered in a light, crispy batter. Served with tarter sauce.
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.
6 oz. New York Steak & 2 Eggs
Ribeye steak & eggs
10oz Ribeye served with 2 farm fresh eggs, choice of potatoes and toast
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.
Meaty Meatball Sandwich
Grilled french roll stuffed with Italian meatballs, rich meat sauce and melted provolone cheese
Reuben
Corned beef with Swiss cheese, sauerkraut, and Thousand island dressing on grilled rye.
French Dip
Sliced USDA choice oven roasted beef simmered in au jus on a French roll.
Club Sandwich
Carved breast of turkey, bacon, lettuce, tomato, and mayonnaise on white bread.
BLT-BLTA-BLTE
Classic with bacon, lettuce, and tomato.
Grilled Cheese
With jack, cheddar, and American cheeses.
Tuna Melt
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 "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.
Tuna Sand
Mels Chili-Cheese Dog
Mels hot dog with chopped onions and melted cheese.
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.
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.
Santa Fe Chicken Melburger
Chicken breast with jack cheese, green chiles, lettuce, tomato, guacamole, and salsa served on a 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.
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.
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
Belgian Waffle
Made with fresh eggs and sweet cream butter!
Buttermilk Hotcakes
Served with whipped butter and syrup
Chicken & Waffle- w/strips
2+2
Two hotcakes or waffle, two bacon or two sausage links and two eggs, any style.
Strawberry Belgian Waffle
With whipped cream.
Strawberry Hotcakes
Full stack, 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
Country Skillet
A combination of scrambled eggs, diced country sausage, link sausage, and bacon, all covered with melted mixed cheese and our country gravy.
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.
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
5. Eggs (2)
With choice of country sausage, hamburger patty or ham steak.
4. Eggs (3)
With choice of four pieces of bacon or four sausage links.
Hot Open-Faced Sandwiches
Fresh Oven Roasted Turkey
Sliced oven roasted turkey with dressing and cranberry sauce.
Sweet Treats
Pie Lemon
Pie Apple
Pie Pumpkin
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 Freeze
Root beer blended with premium vanilla ice cream.
Root Beer Float
Root beer with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.
Coke Freeze
Coke blended with premium vanilla ice cream.
Milk (22 oz)
Fresh Brewed Coffee
Breakfast Side Orders
Side of Bacon
Hash Browns
Oatmeal
Egg (1)
Buttermilk Biscuit & Gravy
Mels Potatoes
Side of Sausage
Toast with Jelly
Side of Country Sausage
English Muffin with Jelly
Toasted Bagel
Served with creamed cheese
Side of Ham
Extras
Ranch
Sour Cream
Guacamole
Avocado
Utensils and Condiments
Fork
Extra Npkns
Ketchup Pkts
Knife
Hot sauce Pkts
Straw
Spoon
Salt Pkts
Sugar
Sugar Sub
Pepper Pkts
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Recent Reviews
I LOVE MELs ...a very comfortable and kicked backed place to enjoy the atmosphere, ambiance, music and past memories ... staff is ALWAYS on POINT! GOOD OLE'DAZE FOOD MENU and milkshakes 😉
October 2025
Me and my brothers went here for lunch and it was so good. Been difficult to find good places around the area, but this place was fantastic! Food was delicious and made quickly. Waitress was super friendly. Loved the 50's decor and style.
October 2025
Mel’s Original Diner in Vacaville is everything you want in an old-school diner — friendly service, hearty portions, and that nostalgic vibe that takes you back in time. From the moment we walked in, we were greeted with a warm smile and seated quickly. The retro decor is fun without feeling forced, and the whole place just feels welcoming.
October 2025
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