54 Cafe

The best items on their menu are biscuits and gravy for breakfast and for lunch the half order of hot beef sandwich. Large portion of wonderfully tasty and tender beef. GREAT coffee.

Great little small town café. Food was good and so was the service. We stopped for breakfast as we were heading to Kansas City and would definitely go back. Loved that it was no smoking!

Biscuits and gravy are the best! Great hometown place that has been here for years. I’m so happy they have a non smoking section being from California I’m just not comfortable with all the smoking in the general area. But the smoke is worth the great tasting food.

We made an impromptu stop here on our way through to KC. The service was speedy and pleasant despite being pretty busy for lunch time. The breakfast items were typical diner food, a little greasy and a little bland. I also thought everything was a bit overpriced. Kids menu averaged $ 5 and Sandwiches do not include fries. All in all, we would choose this diner over Fast Food.

You know I grew up in Nevada. When the Scism’s owned this place years ago it was a place we went to on Saturday night for family dinner out. The food was pretty good and the service was that Mel’s Diner attentive.
Last time I was home I went out there for lunch — mainly because I wanted to say «hi» to Ruby who takes your money when you pay. She’s the Mom of a good friend and always has a dirty joke when you leave. She’s worth the bad food… well, almost.
It’s hard to ruin a hamburger steak and some boiled veggie. But finally the 54 has done just that. The carrots were tragic, the hamburger steak tasteless even with 57 Steak Sauce. My friend’s chicken fried steak was dry and so thin it was more a cutlet than a «steak».
My folks used to go once a week for breakfast with the «gang». It’s hard to ruin breakfast food… but the ham steaks they used to have that were smokey country goodness have been replaced by some ham sandwich meat and the coffee is so bitter no amount of sugar could help.
Service is still attentive and down home though. Hence 2 stars.
I hate to speak bad of one of the few places in Nevada to go out and eat but skip the 54 and head over to Jenny’s California Café or the White Grill for a bite.