Mekeni Restaurant

Filipino restaurant with traditional dishes including grilled meats, chicken and pork skewers, pancit, and rice plates at community-friendly prices.

Mekeni Restaurant brings Filipino home-style cooking to Mission Street in Daly City with a turo-turo counter and a selection of silog breakfasts. We like the chance to choose from the day's prepared dishes, turning a rice plate into an introduction to several different Filipino favorites. The rotating selection has included chicken adobo, dinuguan, bistek, and sisig. Breakfast choices such as longsilog and tosilog pair their respective meats with rice and eggs, while crispy lechon kawali offers another pork preparation. Vegetable spring rolls and garlic noodles provide additional possibilities, and turon adds a sweet finish when available. Mekeni's appeal is the combination of a flexible counter meal and familiar Filipino dishes, useful for a quick takeaway order or a hearty breakfast with a clear sense of place.