The Filpino Cuisine in San Mateo--Avenida Restaurant

📍 Avenida Restaurant, San Mateo A modern Filipino restaurant with a contemporary decor and ambiance, serving classic Filipino dishes. The cuisine mainly features chicken, pork, and seafood, with Filipino-style barbecue being a specialty. 👉 Beef Kare-Kare $25 Unlike other Southeast Asian dishes that mix in curry, this is a pure peanut sauce stew with oxtail. It's not sweet or greasy, making it a perfect dish to have with rice. It comes with shrimp paste that's been stir-fried to an acceptable saltiness. 👉 Grilled Chicken Inasal $16 The sweet grilled chicken tastes like Teriyaki Chicken drizzled with lemon juice when eaten plain. Dipped in a sauce similar to seafood soy sauce, the flavor becomes completely different, with a more savory and salty profile. 👉 Pancit Palabok $14.95 Rice noodles mixed with an orange sauce, topped with ground pork, fried garlic, and eggs. I prefer the more robust version of this noodle dish at Jollibee. ✨ Other signature dishes: 👉 Chicken and Pork Adobo Be sure to order this next time for its soy sauce-based stew of chicken and pork. 👉 Crispy Pata Crispy roasted pork knuckle. 781 E 3rd Ave, San Mateo, CA 94401 #Avenida Restaurant#San Mateo#food diary#Filpino Cuisine