Mekenie Pampangga’s Special | Filipino Restaurant

16928 116th Ave SE, Renton
(206) 317-9542

Recent Reviews

Jr Ruiz

Delicious food, warm service and affordable price.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Mark

Frustrating.. they have great food, a bit pricey but not bad, but they don’t seem to follow their own schedule so i’ve shown up a few times and found them closed during their posted hours. Nothing is more frustrating than driving over there only to find it closed. I’ve learned to call first but it’s frustrating to have to.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 4

Service: 3

Mark Zarsadias

Says open but is closed.

WhinA Ortiz

Drove 40 mins and was going to try this place for the first time and was greeted with “sorry we’re closed because we’re cleaning”. It’s 3 pm on a Saturday.

Service: 1

Dave Kenney

Amazing food. Best in a restaurant. Has a real home cooked taste, not mass produced taste. Lots of menu items out of stock.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Pork Lumpia, Pork Adobo

Junk crap

Lumpia was on point, water was cold and filtered which I loved.Parking: Plenty of parking!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Pork Lumpia, Pancit Palabok

Cho Park Kee

Understaffed and under prepared on a Sunday. Waited half hour at opening just to be told half our order was already not available. Disappointing, this is the best Filipino food in King County.

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 5

Service: 1

Jess T

Inconsistent in the quality but we like going for the beef stek and

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 4

Service: 4

June Luv

I got the Adobo fried rice and fried pork belly. The adobo fried rice is SOOOOOOOOO good. I'm Asian so I have been eating fried rice all my life, and I have to say the adobo fried rice here is easily one of my top favorites. Whatever you get here, make sure you also get the fried rice.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Sonca E.

Authentic Filipino food. Very best in the area. Try everything on the menu, you won't be disappointed. Lots of free parking. Nice clean restaurant.

Karen A.

If I had to review based on food quality, flavor and presentation alone, I would've given this place a solid 4.75. There were a couple minor things that threw me off. Kare Kare was so yummy--delicious traditional peanut butter flavorful goodness! TONS of meat, veggies and eggplant! Not pictured: bagoong. Would I say this was my favorite Kare Kare ever? Not sure if it beats my Tita's, BUT let's just say theirs is better than another unnamed Filipino establishment in a town nearby.Bulalo - perfect flavor; meat was tender and plentiful. Large family option shown. Closest to my own family homemade bulalo, I think! Loved it. Do wish that they cut the meat away from the large bone since this was served family style but no biggie. Nothing that a trusty Filipino knife (a spoon LOL) couldn't take care of!Lechon kawali (Deep fried pork belly) served with diced tomatoes and their own house special sauce. Sauce was ok but had this semi-cinnamony taste to it (a a fan of cinnamon) but would've preferred it with traditional mang tomas sauce so I mostly ate it plain which was fine since it was super fatty. I liked that some pieces were slightly overcooked as I love the textural difference between the meaty vs fatty parts of the pork belly.Now for the negative Nancy stuff...or negative "Nanay" for my fellow Filipinos (LOL):Drinks listed as calamansi juice, buko or mango juice make me think they are FRESHLY made. Nope - ALL of it was canned. Available desserts? None. Absolutely zero available.We ran out of rice due to my Rice Monster rice loving nephew, so we asked for more. The server took our rice bowl to get us some more, and came back with the same empty bowl and told us that they ran out. I'm not fluent in Tagalog but I clearly understood what she said so I had to ask my sister (who is fluent) to clarify if I heard correctly. They RAN OUT OF RICE. Were they making more? Yes, they just started, but we were practically finished with our meal and I had to catch a flight so we ended up eating the rest of our Filipino meal WITHOUT RICE. Why did they not make more rice earlier, when they realized they were out? The response was, "Because they didn't want to waste the rice." I can't.Hence, this is why I had to drop the review down to a solid 4, and only because the food was that good. My sister's family are regulars here though so I will come back and am hopeful that things will be better! PS please note that cashier/server girl was nice and polite and I don't fault her for any of this.PPS the family size portions were large for a party of 4. We ended up packing up leftovers of the Kare Kare and kawali!

Roberto Cruz

You have to check your food quality before you serve it. First, food should be hot. Second, did you taste it? Is it edible.Third is, how long you can serve it. At least let the customer know how long will it take. If you want to last long, please do these. More power!!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 3

Service: 5

dan karlsson

Authentic philipino cuisine! great potion size, friendly atmosphere and good service!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Jay Cook

Here for a birthday party. Really good authentic Filipino food.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Kenneth E.

Been craving for sisig and since pampanga is my home town why not? So my friends and i went for dinner we didn't order much we just had sisig kare-kare and lumpias.Sisig- 9/10 it was really good! Just maybe a little pricey for that portion.Kare-kare- 3/10 it taste good but it was too greasy and we barely found meat in it so we just thought it might just be a veggie kare kareLumpias- 10/10 it was worth the price and taste really good.Overall would still comeback to try more dishes just hope the food and portions would improve.

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Mekenie Pampangga’s Special | Filipino Restaurant

16928 116th Ave SE, Renton, WA 98058
(206) 317-9542