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Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Coco’s Bistro preparing to move to new location
Coco’s Bistro will move from 515 Wayne Ave. to a new location in the 200 block of Warren Street near Brown Street, co-owner Karen Wick said this morning, May 26.
Wick and her husband and Coco’s co-owner Jim Gagnet have purchased three buildings at 234, 236 and 238 Warren St. and have begun renovations, Wick said. The soonest any move could happen would be four or five months, but Wick said the process may take longer and will occur only after the existing Coco’s is sold. She said she is looking for the right buyer who will continue to operate a restaurant from the Wayne Avenue location.
The new restaurant will not expand by much — the existing Coco’s seats 80 to 90 diners, and the new restaurant will serve 90 to 100 — but it will have a private dining area that can be used for receptions and special dinners that will seat an additional 80 people, as well as about 120 dedicated parking spaces, up from about 40 now, Wick said. In addition, the new Coco’s have a larger bar with its own menu that will stay open later than the restaurant, Wick said. The lack of a private dining area, parking and a separate bar are weaknesses of the current location, she said.
In addition to the restaurant and bar, Coco’s will open a free-standing drive-through coffee shop and take-out facility to be called Hector’s Bodega, named after the couple’s 11-year-old son. Wick and Gagnet are still working on the take-out facility’s menu, but it will likely offer coffee, pastries, gourmet pizza, rotisserie meats and salads, Wick said.
The 234 Warren St. building housed M.D. Larkin. The new Coco’s will be located across the street and caddy-corner from Benham’s Catering and Restaurant, 209 Warren St., in a corridor that acts as a “main gateway” between downtown Dayton and Miami Valley Hospital and the University of Dayton, Wick said.
“I think it will open the doors to more development in the area,” Wick said. “It’s exciting.”
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