Mema’s Kitchen

Mema’s Kitchen operates out of a modest storefront on President Barack Obama Highway, and the name is doing exactly what it sounds like: home-style soul food cooked in the kind of quantities and style you would expect from a family kitchen rather than a restaurant built around plating and presentation. Fried swai, oxtails, collard greens, turkey wings, pork chops, and baked chicken make up the core rotation, with sweet potato pie available for anyone leaving room for dessert.

Reviewers describe the food as generous and fresh-cooked, with a genuinely casual, family-oriented feel to the whole operation. Most orders go out as takeout, and seating inside is limited, so this reads as a place built primarily to feed the neighborhood rather than to host long sit-down meals. Reviewers do flag potential wait times and tight parking, especially on Sundays, which lines up with a small kitchen working through a steady stream of orders during its limited open hours.

The schedule is unusually specific and worth noting carefully before a visit: closed entirely Monday through Wednesday, a split Thursday shift covering breakfast and dinner but skipping the afternoon, and then more standard single-shift days Friday through Sunday. This kind of split, limited schedule is typical of a very small operation, likely a single cook or a small family crew, running the kitchen without a large staff to cover a full week of continuous hours.

As with a neighboring listing on this same directory, this address appears in older Yellow Pages and Superpages data under a different business name, Kiki Cuisine, rather than Mema’s Kitchen. This research could not determine with certainty whether that reflects a change in ownership, a rebrand of the same family operation, or a data discrepancy between sources of differing age. Current customer reviews consistently reference Mema’s Kitchen as the name of the business now operating from this address, with a solid volume of recent feedback supporting that it is an active, ongoing operation rather than a stale listing.

For anyone exploring the soul food options along the President Barack Obama Highway corridor in Riviera Beach, Mema’s Kitchen offers a genuinely home-cooked alternative to the barbecue and Caribbean spots that dominate this stretch of road, with breakfast available on select days for early risers.

Its limited, split schedule rewards a bit of planning: calling ahead before making a special trip is a good idea given how tightly the open hours are structured across the week. For anyone who catches it during an open window, the combination of home-style cooking and a genuinely small-kitchen feel is worth the short detour off the main highway corridor.