Tabetha Newman

I found out about Mel's (when I lived on the east coast) from The Final Girl movie and honestly they didn't disappoint. Great food best shakes around and sweethearts for staff. Can't beat this place. It's my favorite place to escape to.

Anthony Echarte

Gotta love some Mel's Diner. I had the country skillet which was soooo good. Really good portion for the price. Our waitress was very friendly, and waited on our party in a very timely and helpful manner. Who doesn't love the 50's style diner atmosphere?? Fun place to come for the kids as they love to pick out songs on the table jukebox.

Jody Walker

Great food, service is hot or miss and a bit noisy but worth it... Vacaville, Fairfield or Placerville.

MJ L

Really great experience here. Needed to get in and out quick. Great food and really excellent service. Our waiter was super friendly and very efficient. It was busy in there but I did indeed get in and out quick. I’ve been to a few Mel’s but This Mel’s takes the cake!

+1

Michael St. Denis

Driving home late, went in at 10:30 a half hour before they closed. Staff were still very nice, got our order and food to us quickly while they were starting to close up. Did not rush us and were friendly. Can't ask for much more late on a Sunday.

+1

bootlegger2750

Been eating here for years now, always a good dining experience for the most part. Huge menu of items, food usually very good and the service has always been great, especially Kaitlyn, our favorite server there. I'm only giving a 4 star rating due to the older lady with the face mask working there. Many times when we're seated towards the far side of the restaurant near the "bussing station " she will very loudly crash and bang the dirty dishes seemingly deliberately as if she has an attitude and doesn't want to be there. It obviously disrupts the other patrons in the area to the point of ruining our dining experience. Today I actually had to report her loud and disruptive behavior to the cashiers who admitted other customers have complained about her also. We still love this place for breakfast yet we certainly need more breakfast places here in Vacaville.

Mike Brown

Food very good staff great. Chris had Bacon and eggs and I had the country skillet. Her egggs were cooked perfectly. My country skillet was was very good. Scrambled eggs with sausage the cheese over hash browns. Our server Nina was very polite and efficient. It fun to step back to mels

B

Relaxing place that has breakfast all day! I been meaning to go here and five review for a while but I think at it's price point and service, they are wonderful! The plates and food are filling and way better than most restaurants

Alvin Convento

Needed lunch but was craving breakfast. This was the perfect place to go. Host and server were great and food was good. We had the steak/eggs and chicken fried steak. Gravy on the chicken fried steak wasn’t salty. Potatoes were very good. The restaurant was clean and they play diner type music.

+2

Let me review for you!

Great 50's diner, all the designs were represented perfectly. The food was good, not the best, but simple American food. I like that you can request songs from your dining room tables and Boothes. Daniela was our waitress, she was ok. Overall, a good atmosphere for casual dining, it's worth coming.

+2

This review is for The Original Mel's Diner in Vacaville, CA. I usually go to the one in Fairfield and will likely return to that one in the future. The food (Hangover #1) was great, but the atmosphere was less than desirable since the customer in the booth next to mine was playing a video his cell phone at an elevated volume. Give it a rest, dude! This could have been avoided had the FOH staff asked him to respect the other customers or, barring that, not seated all customers in adjacent booths (there were plenty of open booths). The Fairfield location avoids this by allowing customers to pick any open seat.

Food was ok, about what was expected. Our server was inattentive, we had to flag him down for coffee refills, he seemed more focused on larger tables. Walked with purpose, but not focused on guests.

Sam Dolan (Spamhammer13)

Please fix your mens TP dispenser. ; ( no TP sucks. Food was ok. Service not so good. Table was dirty.

NJC CHEW

We've been dining here since they opened this location and have seen it go through ups and downs in quality, but lately there hasn't seemed to be any ups in sight. The only positive was our first server Cellias, she was attentive and focused on improving the customer's experience. Unfortunately the rest of the servers were inattentive and prioritized chatting with each other and the chefs over paying attention to the customers. The food wasn't much better unfortunately, the turkey sandwich we ordered with toasted bread had toasted cheese on the bread and the cheesesteak sandwich was one of the saddest I've seen; very soggy and unmelted cheese, worst of all was the inclusion of American cheese. Another thing was the eggs we got with a breakfast dish were very small, this is a nitpick and they may have no control over the size of the eggs they receive so feel free to ignore it, I just felt it should be mentioned.

M Ne

We patron many of the mels diners. In fact as a kid growing up in Salinas, I remember the drive in on south main street. For the most part, the times we have visited Mel's has been great. Especially the ones located in Verdi Nevada and in Sacramento, but we had some major problems with quality and service in Vacaville California. First we asked to be seated in a half both table, with a movable table. I'm sure the waitress observed my wife was disabled and could not walk or navigate well. The greeter sat is at a half booth table, that was far back in the back of the restaurant. In addition, the table could not be moved. Consequently we moved ourselves to the front booth tables. The greeter and the server, who seemed to be in charge were annoyed by this, and we waited 15 minutes for them to even get drinks started. When she finally took our order, it was another 30 minutes till we got our food. When the food arrived it was absolutely terrible. First I ordered broccoli instead of fries and my wife ordered the blt with avocado. I can see cutting back on portions, but there was a smear not a slice of avocado on my wife's order as for the broccoli it looked like it was just a small leaf. The server never once after delivery of the food checked on us. To say the least, we left no tip and still hungry. We did point out these issues with the manager but she seemed interested.

Dawn Molina

Went to Mel’s Vacaville this evening to have what I thought would be a nice family dinner only to receive ZERO customer service or acknowledgment from any staff member (3 waitresses) for over 10+ min after the hostess sat us at our table and went back to the counter to continue talking with her friend. See attached picture for reference since I didn’t get their names since we were never actually waited on. These two employees sat at the counter and NEVER helped the one waitress that was actually working to serve the entire front half of the restaurant that was quite busy for 9pm. In fact, when myself and my family got up to leave the lady pictured in the glasses asked “where are you going, you’re leaving?” When I responded with “Yes, because nobody has acknowledged us or come to wait on us since we were seated over 10 min ago.” Her reply was “well your waitress was just busy making drinks for another table.” I said, “that would have been helpful information to know when we were seated and might have made all the difference in avoiding our terrible experience.” I do NOT recommend going to this restaurant on Sunday evenings if these two are working because as you can see by the picture below they care more about sitting down on the job watching videos on their phone rather than providing customer service to their customers. After my family left they went right back to this position and continued to let the other waitress struggle.