This restaurant offers creative, colorful Thai comfort food and fusion brunch options — and cocktails — in thoughtfully decorated digs featuring wood accents, greenery and orchids in downtown Daly City. The restaurant, which opened in late 2022, is the effort of chefs Tee Atthapon Inkhong and Navin Tintuksiri. Inkhong also owns Mangrove Kitchen and Sun and Moon in San Francisco and Roji Ramen in Oakland.

Carb up after a morning job with the sweet corn cake and crab Benedict ($27). The Dungeness and hollandaise sauce are wonderful, but those crispy, sweet corn cakes with poached eggs perched atop steal the show. Additional brunch options include matcha buttermilk pancakes ($17) with berries and matcha cream, and herb-braised pork belly ($19) with roasted potato, wok-fried Brussels sprouts and eggs. And then there’s the Hat Yai Fried Chicken and Waffle ($26), a Southern cuisine-meets-Thai take on the classic served with a citrusy syrup.

They do Bloody Marys, but you won’t find a Pineapple Painkiller ($12) just anywhere — and the ice cold rum-pineapple cocktail proves a refreshing way to celebrate the weekend.

Details >> Breakfast, brunch and dinner are served daily at 201 Southgate Ave. in Daly City; kankiineatery.com.