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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 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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