Sometimes the greatest culinary treasures aren’t found in fancy downtown bistros with valet parking and white tablecloths, but in places where you’d least expect them – like a truck stop off the highway in Sacramento.
The 49er Diner, nestled within a bustling travel center in California’s capital city, is the breakfast equivalent of finding a winning lottery ticket in your jeans pocket after doing laundry – unexpected, delightful, and worth celebrating.
You might drive past this place a hundred times, dismissing it as just another roadside pit stop for caffeine and fuel.
That would be a mistake of pancake-flipping proportions…