koko japanese pub

07/08/2026

Hey Fam!! Looking for one server to join our team. Full time availability would be excellent, as would fluency in Japanese nerddom, sake and sushi. But not required. Please dm us or send a resume to [email protected]

06/23/2026

Hey Fam! Just a heads up we will be closed for brunch on Sunday for my birthday, so make sure you get your jiggly pancake fix on Saturday🤓

06/05/2026

Dinner and a show at the bar. Fresh fish from Japan, pork belly ramen that converts non-believers, and matcha tres leches for the win.

📍 koko japanese pub, 24 N Orlando Ave, Cocoa Beach, FL

06/05/2026

First ever Michelin recognition on the Space Coast, FL

Huge congratulations to Brevard County local Chef Daniel Joseph Penovich and the team at koko japanese pub for putting Cocoa Beach on the map. Go show them some local love before the line wraps around the block 👏🍣

Koko Japanese Pub
24 N Orlando Ave, Cocoa Beach, FL

06/05/2026

Locals have been quietly gatekeeping these Michelin-recognized weekend pancakes 🥞 Only served Saturdays + Sundays… and honestly worth planning your morning around.

Find them at koko japanese pub
📍 24 N. Orlando Avenue Cocoa Beach, F

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06/01/2026

Honored to be able to share a bit about what we do and why the space coast is such a special place we get to call home. Thank you Florida's Space Coast!!

05/30/2026

🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

It's official. Cocoa Beach's KOKO is the first and only restaurant in all of Brevard County to make the Michelin Guide.​

When the 2026 Michelin Guide Florida came out this week, one Space Coast name was on it: KOKO, the downtown Cocoa Beach izakaya and sushiya at the corner of Minutemen and A1A. No other Brevard restaurant is in the guide at all.​

Let's be accurate, because the story is already getting garbled around town. KOKO is a Michelin RECOMMENDED restaurant. That is a real recognition from the world's most influential dining guide, earned by an anonymous inspector visit. It is not a Michelin star, and it is not a Bib Gourmand. Anyone telling you Brevard just got its first "Michelin star restaurant" has it wrong.​
What's true is the part that matters: no restaurant on the Space Coast had ever been included in the Michelin Guide before.

KOKO is the first. Chef Daniel Penovich, a Cocoa Beach kid who cooked in Copenhagen and at Michelin-starred Kadence in Orlando before coming home, brought it here.​

Penovich also posted something this week that's worth reading, raw and honest about the financial fear and self-doubt behind 18 months of building this place. It's the kind of thing you don't usually hear a chef say out loud.​

Go show them some local love.

Full story, including exactly what a Michelin listing means and how the Space Coast finally landed on the map, in the comments. 👇

05/30/2026

From Cocoa Beach to the Michelin Guide, Koko puts Brevard on the culinary map. See link below ⬇️

📸 Provided by Daniel Penovich

05/16/2026

Very excited to announce that we are now working directly with a matcha distributor in Japan. This allows us to get incredibly high quality matcha for a very good price. This isn’t your local coffee shop’s or Starbucks’ brownish green matcha. Ceremonial grade, organic okumidori matcha from Uji in all our matcha products between koko and koba. And we’ve come to realize matcha is the main thing we sell at Koba so we will be transitioning to more of a matcha cafe vibe over there, while still keeping the boba and kakigori. Come and get your matcha fix!!

05/12/2026

We’re in the final round for Florida Today Brevard community choice awards for best Asian, best sushi and best new restaurant. Vote for us pretty please😚

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