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The Best Place in the World for Breakfast!
If you want to have the best morning of your life, one where you roll back to a time before you were ever born…one where you feel yourself slipping inside an old movie or becoming part of a Norman Rockwell painting, head out to the lazy town of Wilton and mix it up with the locals at Bert’s Diner.
This throwback diner is everything you ever dreamed a diner should be. From the gleaming rounded stainless ceiling, the red leather booths, the black and white checked floors and glass block windows to the gigantic drippy cinnamon rolls, frisbee-sized pancakes and piping hot cocoa - Bert’s is a diamond in the rough and ready world of rural small town America. But guess what? It’s only a 20 minute drive from Sacramento at Grant Line and Wilton Roads.
Yes, the round soda fountain counter chairs spin. As do the tales from the locals who holler out jokes to each other as if they were on a sit-com set of Cheers.
One of the best parts about this place is Andy Burcher, a 40-something waiter who has worked at Bert’s for the better part of 3 decades. While Bert’s is his real love, Andy moonlights in a “real” career in the business world but can’t stay away from the good vibes at Bert’s. Hard to imagine what it would be like without him bouncing through the place, taking orders, sidling up beside old pals. Andy, it seems, knows everybody and everybody knows him. His easy way makes us feel “way” at ease. (Someone should make a sitcom out of this guy!)
“Hey kids,” he says to a couple of old folks. “Don’t tell me the number of the order, I can’t count.”
“What’ll it be? Bourbon, coffee or beer?”
“You’re easy to cook for, that’s what I like about you, Millie,” he says to someone else.
Laughter flows like the coffee….filling up your cup when you’re not even looking.
Bert’s is owned by Mark Seib who bought the diner 20-plus years ago when it had a loyal following of regulars. Mark didn’t have the heart to change the name from Bert’s. So Bert’s it is.
How can you walk away from Bert’s without a smile on your face? Especially if you skip jogging and have a pancake instead!