I had a snack at Tesla Diner, and I have an opinion about it

By LeftFooted | Cars & tech | 18 Nov 2025


Tesla Diner is an 'establishment' on Santa Monica Blvd in Los Angeles that's halfway between a 1950 diner, a flying saucer, a drive-in cinema, and a fast food.


It's also part of Tesla's marketing strategy. And it's also cheap.


A clean, relatively minimalist design, Tesla Diner is also a massive Supercharger station, open to the other brands, not just Tesla.


Surprisingly, everything is cheap, I paid like $5 for cheese fries and an espresso, which is kind of unheard of in Los Angeles.


The gadgets aren't cheap, though.


A Cybertruck-inspired salt and pepper shaker, for example, is $65.


You also have two Optimus robots, gen 1 and gen 2, in a glass frame.


Which leads me on to the opinion I mentioned.


Tesla, in theory, is what industry people would call a mainstream/generalist manufacturer.


It's more like Toyota than Ferrari.


If another mainstream maker did something like this, people probably wouldn't give much of a flying duck. But they do for Tesla.


Tesla is amazing at doing marketing... while pretending to not care about marketing.


So there ya have it, that's the opinion.

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