Pressing the grapes…
Pressing the grapes…
Ranked from the ratings we track · nobody has written it up yet
Mela's Cafe runs Diner in Morrisania and finishes #1 of 32 locally. Reviewers keep coming back to the chicken sandwich and cubano. What people bring up: the portions are big and it's an old-school room. Worth knowing — it opens for breakfast and does delivery and takeout. 105 ratings sit behind it. It rates in the top quarter while far fewer people have found it than the typical place in its category — which is exactly what lands something on our underrated list. $$ ($15–30 a head) — for what it's worth.
Rated in the top quarter, but only 105 people have found it — about a quarter of what a typical diner place near here gets.
Every place is measured the same way, so these are real positions in a real line — a rating built from where it actually stands. Mela's Cafe sits in the top 15% of diner places we track.
Pulled from what reviewers actually wrote about Mela's Cafe — the dishes they named and the things they kept coming back to.
| Monday | 7:00 AM – 1:30 PM |
| Tuesday | 7:00 AM – 1:30 PM |
| Wednesday | 7:00 AM – 1:30 PM |
| Thursday | 7:00 AM – 1:30 PM |
| Friday | 7:00 AM – 1:30 PM |
| Saturday | 8:00 AM – 1:00 PM |
| Sunday | Closed |
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