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Sushi Koko (KōKō)
Sushi Koko, styled KōKō, opened in downtown Monroe, Louisiana in January 2026, the latest venture from Monroe native chef Cory Bahr, who was named Food & Wine's "People's Best New Chef" in America in 2015 and already operated Parish Restaurant & Bar directly across the street. Bahr developed the restaurant's menu in partnership with head sushi chef Shuji Hirose, a veteran chef from Kyoto, Japan, and the space was deliberately designed to evoke Tokyo's Ginza district, a neighborhood widely regarded as a global center of serious sushi craftsmanship. The restaurant favors an elevated, chef-led omakase-style approach over typical Americanized sushi rolls, featuring live-fire yakitori alongside fresh Gulf and imported Japanese ingredients, a notably ambitious concept for a mid-sized Louisiana city not typically associated with high-end sushi. Sushi Koko's combination of Cory Bahr's acclaimed local culinary reputation and head chef Shuji Hirose's authentic Kyoto sushi training has made it one of the most distinctive and recently opened restaurants named Koko in the country.
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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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