Nancy's Airport Café | Our Story
Nearly 60 years of good food in Willows
Nancy's Airport Café has been feeding the Sacramento Valley since 1965 — homemade pies, hearty breakfasts, and a welcome that feels like family. Pull up a booth and we'll tell you how it started.
How Nancy got started
Nancy opened the café in 1965 next to the Willows-Glenn County Airport, with a simple idea: serve the community honest, home-cooked meals at prices working people could afford. Word spread, plate by plate, across the Sacramento Valley.
Real ingredients, every single day
The kitchen runs on the same philosophy it always has — real ingredients, generous portions, nothing out of a box. The homemade pies are the stuff of legend, and people genuinely drive out of their way for a slice.
Dining next to a working airport
Aviation photos and memorabilia line the walls, and from the right seat you can watch small planes taxi past the window. There really isn't anywhere else quite like it.
The people who keep it going
Guests come back for the food, but stay for the staff — regulars know names, and servers remember how you take your coffee. You feel the family spirit from the moment you walk in.
Still here, still home
Nearly six decades in, nothing's changed — same from-scratch cooking, same friendly faces, open seven days a week. Nancy's is still your café.