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Koko's Middle Eastern Restaurant
Koko's Middle Eastern Restaurant operates in the Van Nuys area of Los Angeles, owned and run by Chef Elie Janesian alongside his wife Talin, serving traditional Middle Eastern dishes including kebabs and hummus made in-house. The restaurant has built a devoted local following in the San Fernando Valley for its scratch-made approach to Middle Eastern comfort food, with coverage of the restaurant specifically noting the care and precision Janesian brings to dishes often treated as fast-casual elsewhere. Koko's has operated as a genuine neighborhood institution in Van Nuys, relying on sustained word-of-mouth and repeat local customers rather than the kind of citywide destination-dining attention some other Los Angeles restaurants pursue. Koko's Middle Eastern Restaurant's combination of its husband-and-wife ownership and its scratch-made approach to Middle Eastern staples has made it a beloved neighborhood fixture in the San Fernando Valley.
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KOKO opened in Miami's Coconut Grove neighborhood as the newest concept from Grupo Bakan, a restaurant group that's operated in the Grove for nearly two decades alongside its other concepts, including Bakan in Wynwood and Talavera Cocina Mexicana in Coral Gables. The roughly 6,000-square-foot indoor-and-outdoor space seats around 170 guests and includes an open-view kitchen where diners can watch handmade tortillas being pressed to order, along with a cacti garden and an outdoor bar and terrace built into the neighborhood's natural tree canopy. KOKO's back bar reportedly displays more than 400 different mezcals and tequilas, reflecting the restaurant's emphasis on Mexican spirits alongside its casual-dining Mexican menu, positioning it as both a restaurant and a dedicated agave-spirits destination. KOKO's combination of Grupo Bakan's established Coconut Grove restaurant pedigree and its extensive 400-plus-bottle mezcal and tequila collection has made it one of the more distinctive restaurants named Koko in the country.
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