The Original Mels

The Original Mels Menu

(775) 337-6357
345 N. Arlington Ave, Reno, NV 89501

Mels Famous Choice Angus Burgers


Classic Melburger
$13.99
Served with sliced tomato, lettuce, onion, and Thousand island dressing.
San Francisco Melburger
$16.49
Grilled sourdough bread, a melburger patty, cheddar cheese, bacon, avocado, grilled onion with Thousand island dressing.
Mushroom & Swiss Melburger
$16.49
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
$16.49
Draped with cheddar cheese, two strips of bacon, lettuce, tomato, and onion, with Thousand island dressing.
Big Bopper
$16.49
Our classic Melburger with cheddar cheese, bacon strips, and onion rings topped with barbecue sauce.
Jalapeño Melburger
$15.99
Topped with sliced tomato, jalapeños, lettuce, grilled onions, Thousand island dressing and pepper jack cheese.
Patty Melt
$14.99
Grilled hamburger patty on rye bread with cheddar cheese, sautéed onion, and tomato slices.
Bleu Melburger- Make it HOT or Not
$15.99
Beef patty topped with bleu cheese crumbles, deep-fried onion straws, lettuce, and tomato.
Chili Melburger
$14.99
With chopped onions and melted cheese.
Deuce Coupe
18.49

$Breakfast Favorites


Sunrise Sandwich
$14.99
Breakfast sandwich with two scrambled eggs and your choice of bacon, ham or country sausage, and American cheese, served on grilled, thick sourdough bread.
Breakfast Burrito
$15.99
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.
Corned Beef Hash & Eggs
$16.99
Ribeye Steak & 2 Eggs
$21.99
10oz Ribeye served with 2 farm fresh eggs, choice of potatoes and toast
Bacon, Egg & Avocado Burrito
$15.99
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
$15.99
Three fresh eggs, ground beef, Mels seasoning salt, fresh mushrooms, and spinach scrambled with green onions and topped with Parmesan cheese. Served with toast.
Wolfman Jack
17.99

$Mels Three-Egg Omelettes


California Omelette
$16.99
Our big, three-egg omelette stuffed with tomato, bacon, cheese, and sliced avocado, topped with a dollop of sour cream.
Denver Omelette
$16.99
Three-egg omelette stuffed with ham, grilled peppers, onions, and cheese mix. Served with hash browns or Mels potatoes and toast.
Meat & Cheese
$16.99
Choose from country ham, sausage or bacon with jack and Cheddar cheeses.
Vegetarian
$16.99
A blend of jack and Cheddar cheese, green onions, sliced avocado, sautéed mushrooms, tomato, and sour cream.
Egg-White Omelette
16.99
Egg whites with Swiss cheese, fresh sautéed mushrooms, diced tomato, avocado, and fresh spinach. Served with fresh fruit instead of potatoes.

$Starters & Shareables


New Recipe Mels Sampler
$17.49
Chicken strips, onion rings, mozzarella sticks, and chicken wings on a bed of melfries with ranch dressing and bbq sauce.
Mozzarella Sticks
$10.49
Battered, fried.
Mels Zesty Chicken Wings
$14.99
Mels original or try them with buffalo sauce. Served with your choice of sauce. 8 pcs
Beer Battered Onion Rings
$9.99
Sweet Spanish onions thick-cut, double dipped in beer batter and fried crispy.
Cheese Quesadilla
12.99
Jack and cheddar cheese with green onion, tomato, guacamole, salsa, and sour cream on a flour tortilla.

$Mels Shakes & Malts


Milk Shake or Malt
7.99
Choose your flavor and Make It a Malt if you please!

$Salads


Mels Crispy Chicken Salad
$16.99
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
16.99
Lettuce, chopped bacon, diced chicken, avocado, green onions, egg, tomato, and bleu cheese crumbles.

$Mels Baskets


Chicken Tenderloin Strips
$16.99
Juicy breaded tenderloin strips, fried golden brown. Served with your choice of sauce for dipping!
Mels Chicken Wings
$16.99
Zesty and breaded. Have them tossed in sauce or on the side for dipping. 8 pcs
The Combo
$16.99
With three pieces of jumbo shrimp and two pieces of beer battered Alaskan cod. Served with cocktail and tarter sauce, coleslaw and Mels fries
Beer Battered Cod (3 Pieces)
$15.99
Alaskan Cod served with tarter sauce , coleslaw and Mels fries.
Jumbo Shrimp Basket (5 Pieces)
16.99
Served with cocktail or tarter sauce, cole slaw and Mels fries.

$Blue Plate Dinners


Chicken-Fried Steak
$19.99
Giant, half-pound crispy chicken fried steak, topped with country gravy, sautéed mushrooms.
Fresh Carved Turkey Platter
$19.99
With dressing and cranberry sauce.
Ribeye Steak Dinner
$23.99
10oz Ribeye steak, topped with sauteed mushrooms, choice of 2 sides and homemade cornbread
Steak & Jumbo Shrimp
$21.99
We pair a delicious 6 oz. New York strip steak and 4 pieces of our jumbo fried shrimp.
Fisherman’s Platter
$19.49
Three pieces of beer-battered Alaskan cod battered in a light, crispy batter. Served with tarter sauce.
Jumbo Shrimp Dinner
19.99
Six jumbo shrimp with a light oriental panko breading with a side of cocktail sauce.

$Mels Steaks with Eggs


Chicken-Fried Steak & 2 Eggs
$17.99
Giant, half-pound, all beef chicken fried steak, covered in country gravy. Served with 2 large eggs, choice of potatoes and toast.
6 oz. New York Steak & 2 Eggs
$17.99
Ribeye steak & eggs
21.99
10oz Ribeye served with 2 farm fresh eggs, choice of potatoes and toast

$Mels Fries


Gourmet Melfries
$10.49
Melfries covered with chopped bacon, melted jack, and cheddar cheeses, diced green onions and a dollop of sour cream.
Chili Melfries
$9.99
With cheddar and jack cheese and chopped onions.
Curly Melfries
$7.49
Classic Melfries
$6.99
Skin on and sprinkled with Mels special seasoning
Garlic Melfries
$7.99
Sprinkled with parmesan cheese.
Cheese Melfries
8.99
With mixed jack and cheddar.

$Mels Specialty Sandwiches


BLT-BLTA-BLTE
$14.49
Classic with bacon, lettuce, and tomato.
Club Sandwich
$16.99
Carved breast of turkey, bacon, lettuce, tomato, and mayonnaise on white bread.
French Dip
$17.49
Sliced USDA choice oven roasted beef simmered in au jus on a French roll.
Chicken Club
$16.49
Chicken breast served on our french roll, topped with jack cheese, avocado, bacon, lettuce, tomato, and mayonnaise.
Reuben
$16.99
Corned beef with Swiss cheese, sauerkraut, and Thousand island dressing on grilled rye.
Mels “Original Cheese Steak” Sandwich
$16.99
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 Melt
$14.49
Grilled Cheese
$13.99
With jack, cheddar, and American cheeses.
Grilled Ham & Cheese
$14.99
With jack, cheddar, and American cheeses with sliced ham.
Meldog
$13.49
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
$14.99
Mels hot dog with chopped onions and melted cheese.
Fresh Roasted Turkey
$14.99
With lettuce, tomato, and mayonnaise served on a hamburger bun.
Tuna Sand
12.99

$Chicken, Turkey and Veggie Burgers


Classic Crispy Chicken Melburger- Make it Hot or Not
$14.99
Served on our signature bun with lettuce, tomato, and onion with a side of mayo.
Crispy Chicken Parmesan Sandwich
$15.99
BBQ Crispy Chicken Melburger
$15.99
Chicken breast with cheddar cheese, bacon strips, and onion rings topped with BBQ sauce and served on our signature bun.
Veggie Melburger
$13.99
Served on our signature whole wheat bun with honey mustard dressing, lettuce, tomato, and pickle.
Gourmet Chicken Melburger
$15.99
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
$15.99
Served on our signature bun with bacon, lettuce, tomato, mayonnaise, and onion straws.
Santa Fe Chicken Melburger
15.99
Chicken breast with jack cheese, green chiles, lettuce, tomato, guacamole, and salsa served on a wheat bun.

$Specialty Hotcakes & Waffles


2+2
$15.99
Two hotcakes or waffle, two bacon or two sausage links and two eggs, any style.
Chicken & Waffle- w/strips
$18.99
Chocolate Chip Hotcakes
$15.99
Full stack with Ghiradelli chocolate chips melted throughout. Topped with whipped cream.
Buttermilk Hotcakes
$13.99
Served with whipped butter and syrup
Strawberry Belgian Waffle
$15.99
With whipped cream.
Belgian Waffle
$13.99
Made with fresh eggs and sweet cream butter!
Blueberry Hotcakes
$15.99
Full stack, bursting with blueberries and topped with whipped cream
Strawberry Hotcakes
15.99
Full stack, with whipped cream.

$Eggs Benedicts


Eggs Benedict
$16.99
With your choice of ham, sliced avocado or country sausage on a grilled English muffin, topped with poached eggs and hollandaise sauce.
California Benedict
$16.99
Grilled English muffin halves topped with three strips of bacon, grilled tomato slices, avocado, poached eggs, and topped with hollandaise sauce.
Eggs Florentine
16.99
Grilled English muffin halves topped with sliced tomato, fresh spinach, poached eggs, and topped with hollandaise sauce.

$Mels Skillets


Hangover II
$18.99
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.
The Hangover
$16.99
We cover your choice of potatoes with two biscuits, two country sausages and country gravy and top it with two eggs any style.
Country Skillet
$17.49
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
16.99
Bacon and green chiles scrambled with eggs and topped with avocado and melted cheese. Served with salsa and sour cream on the side.

$Breakfast Eggs by the #


4. Eggs (3)
$17.49
With choice of four pieces of bacon or four sausage links.
2. 2 Eggs, 3 Sausages or 3 Strips of Bacon
$15.99
5. Eggs (2)
15.49
With choice of country sausage, hamburger patty or ham steak.

$Hot Open-Faced Sandwiches


Fresh Oven Roasted Turkey
16.49
Sliced oven roasted turkey with dressing and cranberry sauce.

$Sweet Treats


Pie Apple
$6.99
Pie Berry
$6.99
Pie Pumpkin
$6.99
Pie Lemon
6.99

$Soups & Chili


Mels Chili Bowl
9.99
Served with cornbread, melted cheddar cheese, and onion.

$Beverages & Soda Fountain


Fountain Soft Drinks
$3.99
Root Beer Freeze
$7.99
Root beer blended with premium vanilla ice cream.
Juice (22 oz)
$4.99
Root Beer Float
$7.99
Root beer with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.
Fresh Brewed Coffee
$3.99
Coke Freeze
$7.99
Coke blended with premium vanilla ice cream.
Milk (22 oz)
4.49

$Breakfast Side Orders


Buttermilk Biscuit & Gravy
$8.99
Side of Sausage
$6.99
Hash Browns
$5.99
Side of Bacon
$6.99
Mels Potatoes
$5.99
Side of Country Sausage
$6.99
Egg (1)
$2.79
Toast with Jelly
$4.49
Toasted Bagel
$4.49
Served with creamed cheese
Side of Ham
$6.99
English Muffin with Jelly
$4.29
Oatmeal
6.99

$Alcohol


Mimosa
10.00
Individual OJ with Chilled 187ml Bottle of Sparkling Wine to make your own in-home Mimosa!

$Extras


Ranch
$0.89
Avocado
$2.49
Sour Cream
$1.69
Guacamole
1.69

$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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