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Mama Koko's
Mama Koko's opened in Baltimore's Better Waverly neighborhood, co-founded by veteran restaurateurs Ayo Hogans and Angola Selassie, who named the café after his own mother, Dr. Kokahvah Zauditu-Selassie, affectionately known to him as "Mama Koko." The Black-owned café operates inside the historic James E. Hooper House, functioning as a coffee shop by day and a cocktail lounge by night, with a menu of tapas and small plates drawing on Caribbean and African culinary influences inspired directly by Selassie's mother's own cooking and hospitality. The concept drew significant local media attention for its distinctive day-to-night dual identity and its deliberate grounding in family history and Black-owned business ownership, becoming a recognized community gathering spot in Baltimore. Mama Koko's combination of its deeply personal namesake origin story and its day-to-night coffee-shop-to-cocktail-lounge concept has made it one of the most community-rooted restaurants named Koko in the country.
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Koko Wings
Koko Wings operates on Manhattan's Upper West Side, at 248 W 106th Street, specializing in Korean-style fried chicken wings that are double-fried and hand-battered, a technique aimed at keeping the chicken crispy and juicy while staying comparatively light on oil. The restaurant's signature preparations include a half-and-half order splitting wings between soy garlic and spicy sauce, letting diners sample both of the restaurant's core flavor profiles in a single order rather than committing to just one. Beyond its wings, Koko Wings serves a broader menu of Korean bar-food staples, including seasoned and sweet potato fries, rice cakes, a bulgogi bowl with egg, and truffle fries, positioning the restaurant as a fuller Korean comfort-food destination rather than a wings-only specialist. Koko Wings's combination of its double-fried, hand-battered Korean fried chicken technique and its broader Korean bar-food menu has made it a well-reviewed neighborhood destination on Manhattan's Upper West Side.
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