Place to eat in Nacpan

Left view

After hours sitting and swimming on the beach we felt that our stomach is complaining. According to some locals in town of El Nido there are place to eat in Nacpan. On our way to the beach we pass through a house that has a big  wooden veranda that has a sign on its side saying FOOD here.

right view with the big FOOD sign

When we arrive 2 group of foreign tourist are eating in the place called by the owner ate Mercy, Kyla Canteen. It has 4 small tables, enough for the days customers. When getting to the canteen, you can not miss because of the big food sign.

The Menu

Ate Mercy started it two years ago when tourist started to flack in Nacpan Beach grown. People usually stock there without food and even drinks. Then idea came out of putting up a canteen that serve sea foods and chicken.  According to ate Mercy, she also pursue her plan to help her husband who is a fisherman. Because of the lowering income now a days in fishing. The veranda is the new dinning place, before it is located at the side of their house with small space for comers to eat. Most of the food serve was a product of the nearby village like crabs, squids,fish and shrimps. Chicken demand is bought from the market in the town. Prices are competitive in the towns cheap place to eat, insuring the customers that you will leave gastronomically full without  putting a whole in your pocket.

The new dinning area of Kyla Canteen

This small place is operated by relatives; From mother, Father, nephew and even Kyla the first daughter of ate Mercy. They use the kitchen of the house to prepare food they serve.

The Old dinning area, now can use as parking area

Vegetable salad 

We ordered crabs,(because in the town it is more expensive,to save little hundreds)adobong squid, the vegetable salad and unlimited rice(i mean unmeasured plate of rice). Crabs were Php 400/ kilo (big ones) squid were cheap, a total of Php 350 with a can of soda.

Chloe praying for the crab.Yummy

After the full gastronomic lunch that we take, we rested for an hour and went back to the town.

If you want to reserve a seat or order in advance you can call ate Mercy at 09461965557

Chloe playing with the window of the house of ate Mercy

P.S. Actually our bill is Php 359, i haggled to pay Php350. It is also a help for your tric driver to have a free meal given by ate Mercy if the driver brought a guess to her canteen.Not bad diba for 2 1/2 pax?