Gillespie Field Cafe Menu
Welcome to Gillespie Field Cafe, your go-to destination for satisfying breakfast and brunch experiences at 2015 N Marshall Ave, El Cajon, CA. This veteran-owned cafe beautifully blends delicious meals with a unique aviation atmosphere, offering outdoor seating that allows guests to enjoy views of planes taking off and landing.
The menu features hearty breakfast favorites like the Country Fried Steak and the ever-popular Steak and Eggs, along with mouthwatering hot sandwiches like the Patty Melt and Tuna Melt. With moderate prices, it’s perfect for families and groups alike.
Enjoy a casual dining experience, complete with friendly service and accommodating amenities including wheelchair accessibility and free Wi-Fi. Whether you're indulging in a savory meal or relaxing with friends, Gillespie Field Cafe offers everything you need for a delightful outing.
Gillespie Breakfast Favorites
Country Fried Steak
Smothered in country gravy with 2 eggs, hash browns or country style potatoes and toast, English muffin, grits or biscuit.
Steak and Eggs
8 oz. New York strip a Gillespie Field Cafe tradition. Served with 2 eggs, hash browns or country style potatoes and toast, English muffin, grits or biscuit.
Eggs Benedict
Toasted English muffin topped with poached eggs, a slice of ham or turkey and our hollandaise sauce. Served with potatoes or fresh fruit.
Eggs Florentine
Toasted English muffin topped with fresh leaf spinach, poached eggs, and our hollandaise sauce. Served with potatoes or fresh fruit.
Chorizo and Eggs
Served with tortillas or toast and your choice of potatoes or refried beanss. Topped with cheese.
Vegetable Scrambler
Sauteed bell peppers, onions, tomatoes, mushrooms and spinach in scrambled eggs, lightly sprinkled with shredded cheese and topped with avocado, with potatoes or fruit and toast, English muffin, grits or biscuits.
The Gillespie Burrito
Stuffed with bacon and sausage, eggs, onions, bell peppers, tomatoes, and cheese, wrapped in a flour tortilla. Served with potatoes or fruit. Simply awesome!
The Hello Burrito
Ham, crispy bacon, eggs, mushrooms, avocado and cheese, wrapped in a flour tortilla and served with potatoes or fruit.
Biscuits and Gravy Gillespie Style
Open faced buttermilk biscuits topped with diced sausage in scrambled eggs then smothered in house made sausage gravy. Served with potatoes or fruit.
2 Eggs any Style with Meat
2 Eggs Breakfast
2 eggs, potatoes and toast.
3 Eggs Scramble
Choose ham, bacon, sausage or turkey topped with cheese.
Corn Beef Hash and 2 Eggs
Egg Dishes
Omelettes
Denver Omelette
Ham, bell peppers, onions and cheese.
Mediterranean Omelette
Feta cheese, onions, spinach and tomatoes.
California Omelette
Filled with diced bacon, tomatoes, onions and cheese, topped with fresh avocado.
Spinach, Tomato, and Cheese Omelette
Light and healthy. Healthy choices.
Vegetarian Omelette
Spinach, bell peppers, mushrooms, onions, tomatoes and cheese, topped with fresh avocado. Healthy choices.
Chili Omelette
Filled with our homestyle chili and topped with cheese and onions.
Build Your Own Omelette
Choose any 5 ingredients: sausage, ham, bacon, spinach, onion, bell pepper, mushroom, tomato, cheddar and jack combo or feta cheese. Add avocado for an additional charge.
Pancake Breakfast
3 light and fluffy pancakes, 2 eggs any style, bacon or sausage links.
Blueberry Pancakes
3 light and fluffy blueberry pancakes and 2 eggs any style, bacon or sausage links.
Chocolate Chip Pancakes
3 light and fluffy pancakes with mini chocolate morsels and 2 eggs any style, bacon or sausage links.
Buttermilk Pancakes
Light and fluffy buttermilk pancakes. Add blueberries or chocolate chips for an additional charge.
Golden French Toast Breakfast
Served with 2 eggs, and bacon or sausage links.
Golden French Toast
Traditional French toast served with butter and maple syrup.
Gillespie Sweet Sunshine
On the Side - Breakfast
Biscuits Smothered in Sausage Gravy
Dense flaky pastry.
2 Eggs Any Style
1 Egg Any Style
Country Potatoes
Hash Browns
Fried shredded potatoes.
4 Slices of Bacon
Cured pork.
Large Sausage Links
3 pieces.
Corned Beef Hash
Salt cured beef, potatoes, and onions.
Avocado Slices
Ham
Cooked meat from the upper part of a pig's leg.
Turkey
Sausage Gravy
Seasoned ground meat that has been wrapped in a casing.
Fruit
Grits
Porridge made from ground corn.
Large Muffin
Served hot with whipped butter.
Cottage Cheese
Soft white cheese made from soured milk curds.
Toast
Hot, browned sliced bread.
English Muffin
Yeast leavened bread.
Oatmeal
Served with milk, raisins and brown sugar on the side. Healthy choices.
Loaded Oatmeal
Served with milk, raisins and brown sugar, blueberries and walnuts.
Chicken Caesar Salad
Tender strips of grilled chicken tossed with romaine, Parmesan cheese, croutons and Caesar dressing.
Asian Chicken Salad
Mixed greens, cabbage, carrots, topped with chicken breast, fried wontons, mandarin oranges, sliced almonds and our special Asian dressing. You will love this very hearty salad.
Cobb Salad
Mixed greens, bacon, hard-boiled egg, chicken, avocado, tomatoes, with blue cheese crumbles.
Spring Salad
Mixed greens, apple slices, walnuts, golden raisins, dried cranberries and feta cheese. Served with balsamic vinaigrette dressing. Add grilled chicken for an additional charge.
Stuffed Tomato with Tuna
Nestled in a bed of mixed greens, onion, shredded cheese, sliced hard-boiled egg.
Protein Plate
Angus beef patty or scoop of house-made tuna. Served with cottage cheese, tomato slices, hard-boiled egg and fruit cup.
House Salad
Fresh green leaf lettuce topped with sliced cucumber, tomato, red onion, croutons and sprinkled with cheese. Healthy choice.
Salads
Soups and Chili
1/2 Sandwich and Bowl of Soup
Substitute chili for an additional charge. Bowl of soup and 1/2 sandwich (your choice of tuna salad, ham and Swiss, turkey and Swiss, BLT, turkey melt, tuna melt, veggie, or grilled cheese). All sandwiches come with lettuce, tomato, and mayonnaise.
Soup and Salad
Bowl of soup and house salad with garlic bread.
Gillespie Homestyle Chili
Stew made with chili peppers or powder.
Chili-Cheese Fries
The Club Sandwich
Another Gillespie favorite. Simply the best traditional triple deck club you'll find filled with ham, turkey, bacon, lettuce, tomato and Swiss cheese on toasted bread.
Tuna Salad Sandwich
Homemade from scratch tuna salad served with lettuce, tomato and red onion on your favorite toasted bread.
Turkey and Swiss Sandwich
An American standard that includes thinly sliced smoked turkey, topped with lettuce, tomatoes and Swiss cheese on your favorite toasted bread.
The Gillespie Sub
A major league delight with ham, turkey and pastrami on a hoagie roll with provolone, lettuce, tomatoes and pepperoncini. Topped with our special vinaigrette dressing.
Vegetarian Sandwich
A hearty and healthy sandwich with avocado, bell pepper, cucumber, lettuce, onions, tomatoes, and Swiss cheese on your choice of toasted bread. Healthy choices.
BLT Sandwich
A classic American sandwich with fresh cooked bacon, lettuce and tomato. Add avocado for an additional charge.
Sandwiches
From The Grill - Burgers
All American Burger
Substitute veggie patty for an additional charge.
All American Burger with Cheese
Substitute veggie patty for an additional charge.
Gillespie Burger
A Gillespie Cafe tradition. Served with sauteed mushrooms, grilled onions and Swiss cheese.
B-52 Burger
Served with sauteed onions, 2 cheeses, topped with a thin slice of smoked ham.
B-17 Bacon Cheeseburger
Served with crispy bacon and American cheese.
B-29 Blue Cheese Bacon Burger
Served with crispy bacon and our delicious blue cheese.
T-34 California Burger
Served with avocado, cheese and bacon.
P-51 Chili Size
Toasted open-faced bun with a generous portion of our delicious homestyle chili, topped with cheddar cheese and diced onions.
Patty Melt
Angus beef patty on grilled rye bread with grilled onions and Swiss cheese.
Tuna Melt Sandwich
Grilled sourdough with tuna, tomato and Swiss cheese.
Turkey Melt Sandwich
Grilled sliced turkey breast on grilled sourdough with tomato, Swiss cheese and 1000 Island dressing.
Philly Steak Sandwich
A traditional "Philly style" sandwich on a hoagie roll served with bell peppers, onion and provolone cheese.
Hot Pastrami Sandwich
Shaved pastrami, grilled onions and melted provolone on toasted hoagie roll with deli mustard.
Grilled Cheese Sandwich
Add bacon, tomato for an additional charge.
California Grilled Chicken Sandwich
Grilled chicken breast, bacon, avocado, mayo, lettuce, tomato on toasted sourdough.
BBQ Chicken Sandwich
Grilled chicken breast on a kaiser bun with Swiss cheese and BBQ sauce.
Fish and Chips
A new England meal in a basket. 3 pieces with fries, tartar sauce and coleslaw.
Hot Sandwiches and Other Things
Sides
Onion Rings
Coleslaw
Potato Salad
French Fries
Garlic Toast
Homemade Dessert
Brownie
Milkshake
Malt
Brownie Sundae
Ice Cream Cup
Pepsi Float
Root Beer Float
Dessert Specials
Soft Beverages
Juice
Orange, cranberry, apple, tomato.
Soft Drink
Choose a flavor.
Coffee
Regular or decaffeinated.
Hot Tea
Herb Tea
Bottle Water
Milk
Chocolate Milk
Hot Chocolate
Iced Coffee
Hot Cafe Mocha
Starbucks Caramel Iced Coffee
Starbucks Mocha Iced Coffee
Red Blend Wine
Must be 21 to purchase.
Chardonnay Wine
Must be 21 to purchase.
Sangria Wine
Must be 21 to purchase.
Classic Mimosa
Must be 21 to purchase.
Cranberry Mimosa
Must be 21 to purchase.
Bloody Mary
Must be 21 to purchase.
Vodka Red Bull
Must be 21 to purchase.
Vodka Cranberry
Must be 21 to purchase.
Vodka OJ
Must be 21 to purchase.
Champagne Bottle
Must be 21 to purchase.
Champagne Bottle with OJ
Must be 21 to purchase.
Els "Spiked" Iced Coffee
Add coffee shot, add vodka shot for an additional charge. Must be 21 to purchase.
Wine (Must be 21 to purchase) (Archived)
Beer (Must be 21 to purchase) (Archived)
Bottled Beer
Craft and Imported. Must be 21 to purchase.
Coors Lite and Bud Lite Beer
Must be 21 to purchase.
ODouls Beer
Non-alcoholic.
