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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's Bavarian
Koko's Bavarian opened in Austin's Govalle neighborhood in 2021, and its name comes directly from its founder's own nickname: Konstantin Prinz von Bayern, a real prince of the historic Bavarian royal house, who goes by "Koko." The concept blends traditional German biergarten culture with Texas hospitality, built around specialty sausages, giant soft pretzels, Belgian-style fries, and rotating craft beer, aiming to recreate an authentic Bavarian beer hall atmosphere in Central Texas. After its original East Fifth Street location closed for renovations in 2023 and didn't reopen, Koko's Bavarian returned with a new South Lamar Boulevard beer hall and also expanded into a stadium-concessions concept, operating inside Austin's Moody Center arena on the University of Texas campus. Koko's Bavarian's combination of its literal founding by a real Bavarian prince nicknamed Koko and its expansion from a single beer garden into arena concessions has made it one of the most distinctive restaurants named Koko in the country.
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