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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 Mediterranean Grille
Koko's Mediterranean Grille was opened in Chicago's West Town neighborhood by brothers George and Ted Kokoris, with the restaurant's name drawn directly from the family surname rather than being an invented brand name. The menu spans Mediterranean, Mexican, and American diner fare side by side, including gyros with meat sliced on site, falafel and shawarma sandwiches, spanakopita, hamburgers, and breakfast omelettes, reflecting the restaurant's positioning as an affordable, wide-ranging neighborhood grill rather than a single-cuisine specialist. Coverage of the restaurant has specifically highlighted that no menu item is priced over $10, positioning Koko's Mediterranean Grille as a deliberately budget-friendly option in a West Town neighborhood that has otherwise seen significant upscale development in recent years. Koko's Mediterranean Grille's combination of its Kokoris family ownership and name origin and its deliberately affordable, wide-ranging Mediterranean-meets-diner menu has made it a distinctive neighborhood fixture in West Town.
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