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Woky Ko reveal opening date of new Clifton restaurant
Larkin Cen has gone from working in his parents’ Chinese takeaway in Cardiff, to becoming an employment lawyer, being a finalist on MasterChef, opening and closing a restaurant in Cardiff, and opening the highly acclaimed Woky Ko in Cargo 1 at Wapping Wharf.
The date has now been announced for the opening of Bristol’s second Woky Ko on Queen’s Road in Clifton opposite the Wills Memorial Building.
The first evening service at the new restaurant will be on Tuesday, May 22, with a fortnight-long soft launch during which diners will be able to enjoy a drink upstairs in the former Caffe Nero if there is a wait for tables downstairs.
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Woky Ko 2 will actually be called Kauto, named after a champion racehorse and designed to be different from its older sister on Gaol Ferry Steps.
Larkin Cen behind the pass at Woky Ko’s Cargo restaurant
Cen said: “Woky Ko: Cargo is the core of our culinary and cultural values and our Wapping Wharf base is still very much part of the business.
“Woky Ko: Kauto takes on these values but in a different atmosphere and will enable us to show the breadth of a cuisine I truly love.
“We want to be more than a restaurant to our customers. We want to be a connection to the culture that this food is from.”
There will be seating in front of the chefs in the new restaurant, with a menu featuring familiar Woky Ko favourites such as baos, sharing plates and noodles, as well as the likes of Korean fried chicken, ramen noodles, soy egg and umami broth; and shrimp and tiger prawn, lemon and pickled daikon bao.
Kauto’s cocktails have been created by Gary Roper of Woky Ko’s Wapping Wharf neighbour Little Victories, with a Kauto gin made in collaboration with Psychopomp, less than half a mile away on St Michael’s Hill.
For more information, visit www.wokyko.com/kauto-1
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