We’ve been quietly working on a new, larger location for almost a year. We love where we are, but plans to expand into the Dietz building weren’t going the way we had hoped. We’ve been quietly talking to successful restaurateurs for the last few months. We’ve been very successful here, love the neighborhood (we live less than a proverbial hop skip and a jump from the back door of the restaurant) and want to see someone else succeed the way we have.
If you are interested in the current location, sans the brand and trade dress, we have an information sheet (pdf).
We’d like to thank Mark Fisher from the Dayton Daily News for the wonderful article and his past reviews of the restaurant:
Coco’s Bistro preparing to move to new location
By Mark Fisher | Tuesday, May 26, 2009, 12:16 PM
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.”
via Coco’s Bistro preparing to move to new location | Taste: Dayton food and restaurants.
We’re excited about the new location, and once you see the plans, we’re sure you will be too. Expanded parking, a bigger patio, a bigger bar with it’s own menu, private dining rooms and Hector’s Bodega will give you even more reasons to come in and eat well.
Thanks for making this possible.
We know you love her.
