Bette's Oceanview Diner

About Bette's Oceanview Diner

It's an eclectic crowd, but then this is Berkeley. The birthplace of free speech. The epicenter of eclecticism. With their love of good food, strong coffee and lively conversation, our customers give new meaning to the phrase "counter culture."

Settle into a plush red Naugahyde booth, or find a place at the counter, and you're likely to be waited on by a cartoonist, a performance artist, a Doctor of Theology or a rock musician. Drop a quarter into the jukebox and you can choose from country, to rock, to classical, to opera. Anything goes. This is no ordinary diner.

The food has never been ordinary either. We look at it this way: a BLT is a simple, wonderful thing. But imagine a BLT made with thick-cut pepper bacon, local lettuce, juicy slabs of fresh tomato and homemade mayo on toasted rye bread from the bakery down the block. It's still simple, but it's really wonderful.

Now imagine an entire diner menu. From farm-style breakfasts to soups, salads, sandwiches, blue-plate specials, pastries and pies, all our dishes are made from scratch with fresh, local ingredients.

And then there are the pancakes and the scones. People have been known to make special trips for them. And we're always getting requests for recipes. So eventually, we decided to share the wealth, and we began testing and hand-packaging our first scone and pancake mixes and selling them out of our takeout shop next door to the Diner.

Frankly, we were a little overwhelmed by the response, and we soon found ourselves with a second business on our hands: Bette's Diner Products. Today, our mixes are selling like hotcakes in specialty food shops and grocery stores throughout the western U.S. They're still made using the same locally milled flours and premium, all-natural ingredients we use at the Diner.

And now that you've found us online, you can buy them from anywhere in the world and enjoy them at your place any time. We hope they'll have your friends and family lining up for more.