101 Diner

Great food, great service, great community.

06/09/2023

📸 😍 This current special is mouth-watering delicious 🫠 Introducing Raspberry Cream Cheese Stuffed French Toast with fresh raspberries, raspberry syrup and mixed nuts.
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03/04/2023

Looking for the best lunch for the best price in Encinitas? Our CESAR Crack Melt has you covered with steak, onions, mushrooms, jalapeños, Swiss and avocado - served with fries, fruit or coleslaw! 🤤
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101 Diner Great food, great service, great community.

12/07/2022

All the goods! 🙌🙌🙌

08/27/2022

Repost from and
The best memories are made around delicious food!! Cheers to the next generation 💙🙌

08/05/2022

Today’s feature: our Cardiff Crack™️ omelette with mushrooms, onions, bell peppers and Swiss cheese with your choice of potatoes or fruit and toast. Don’t forget our original Ho-made roasted salsa 💃
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07/30/2022

“What is THAT??” A common question we get as our servers run by hurrying one of these to a table. Fresh out of the oven, baked with cinnamon and fresh Granny Smith apples. Our Baked Apple Pancake is sure to turn heads and guaranteed to satisfy tastebuds 🍏😋
Available year round and/or seasonally with fresh peaches thrown in the mix 🍑
Full menu and details @ the101diner.com

07/22/2022

Happy Friday from our Ho-made Pork Chile Verde omelette special‼️ Served with your choice of potatoes, fruit or beans and flour/corn tortillas or toast. 😋 Full menu and details @ the101diner.com

07/16/2022

Happy cooks make happy customers!
Made with L❤️VE… Always! @ Cain Saldivar
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06/25/2022

These☀️summer vibes☀️ brought to you by one of our many outdoor tables! This and many more views available when you join us for breakfast or lunch on the patio!
Full menu and details @ the101diner.com

06/05/2022

Eggs Bene Southern style with our spicy Louisiana sausage! Not hot enough for you? Top it with our Ho-made cilantro + jalapeño hollandaise sauce and get ready for 🔥🔥🔥

05/28/2022

❤️ We forever honor the sacrifices made by our fellow Americans so that we may embrace the many freedoms of this great country ❤️

05/13/2022

Truly perfect weather calls for our truly delicious Tropical Waffle! ☀️ Light, fluffy Belgian waffle topped with strawberries, mango, bananas and kiwi with whipped cream. 🍓🥭🍌🥝
Come dine outside with us this weekend in sunny Encinitas!

04/23/2022

Happy Saturday from the custom creations you LOVE, already on the menu 😉 Bacon, Spinach, Mushroom & Cheese omelette with your choice of potatoes or fruit and toast or English muffin.

What’s your go-to custom omelette? Comment below! ⏬

03/26/2022

If you haven’t had Ho-made Corned Beef Hash at the Original 101 Diner, you haven’t had corned beef hash… 😋
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03/19/2022

Happy Saturday from our famous 50/50 Bene! Choose two of your favorite Eggs Benedict’s alongside your choice of potatoes or fresh fruit… because choosing only one is simply impossible! 😜
📸 Hillbilly Eggs Benedict with ham, bacon, gravy on Ho-made biscuit / Slow-cooked Carnitas Eggs Benedict with avocado, English muffin and cilantro/jalapeño hollandaise sauce.
Full menu and details @ the101diner.com 🙌

03/12/2022

☀️Weather☀️ is warming up and so are our açaí bowl orders! Hand-scooped açaí over organic h**p granola, topped with fresh-sliced strawberries, kiwi, mango, pineapple, banana, blueberries and toasted coconut 🌴 Never blended, always fresh!
Full menu @ the101diner.com 🙌

03/05/2022

Cheers to the classics! Our French Toast is a go-to for daily patrons and newcomers alike! Thick texas toast in our Ho-made cinnamon sugar egg batter, topped with whipped butter and syrup. Throw in some strawberries and bananas to mix it up, or try our Strawberry Crème / Banana Nutella French toast! 😋
Full menu and details @ the101diner.com
HAPPY WEEKEND! 😎
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02/04/2022

🔙 to the basics! Eggs any style, our signature breakfast potatoes or fruit and your choice of toast, English muffin or tortillas! The foundation for any great breakfast, delicious all on its own! 🍳🥔🍞
Call in, order online or dine with us! Full menu @ the101diner.com 🙌

01/29/2022

Our ho-made Buttermilk Fried Chicken will make your mouth water all on its own! Top it with our ho-made sausage gravy, eggs any style, potatoes and a biscuit?? Next level!! 🤤🤤🤤
Call in, order online or dine with us! Full menu and hours @ the101diner.com

01/22/2022

Our Cinnamon Roll Pancakes have been so popular as a special that they have graduated into our everyday menu! Fluffy buttermilk pancakes with ho-made cinnamon swirl and icing. Cinnamon roll deliciousness without bakery pricing. SOLD! 😉
For full menu and other deets, head on over to the101diner.com 📲

01/14/2022

C💥NTEST‼️ Get your typing fingers ready…
If you have not already been acquainted with our Shaved Crack eggs benedict, allow us to introduce you!
1/2 Shaved Ham 1/2 Seaside Market Cardiff Crack® on a toasted English muffin topped with our famous ho-made cilantro jalapeño hollandaise sauce and perfectly poached eggs!
TAG the friends YOU would share this dish with to enter for your chance to win a $40 Gift Certificate to the Original 101 Diner 💵 Every tag counts as an entry!
…But, let’s be real… there will be little to no sharing 😜
Contest ends Sunday PDT
Winner will be announced Monday, and your Gift Certificate shipped to arrive just in time for the weekend!

12/05/2021

Addiction at its finest! Our Crack & Eggs breakfast plate, a combination of Seaside Market Cardiff Crack® Trip Tip, eggs any style, toast and your choice of ho-made potatoes or fresh fruit. Get hooked!! 🎣 @ the101diner.com (Full menu)

10/27/2021

It’s the simple things in life that matter. BLT on sourdough with fries, fruit or slaw. Nothing complicated, always delicious 😋
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Address


552 S Coast Highway 101
Encinitas, CA
92024

Opening Hours

Monday 6am - 1:30pm
Tuesday 7am - 1:30pm
Wednesday 7am - 1:30pm
Thursday 7am - 1:30pm
Friday 7am - 1:30pm
Saturday 7am - 2pm
Sunday 7am - 2pm

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