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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'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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