Kooma Asian Fusion and Martini Bar has set their Grand Opening date for their new Cherry Hill location for THIS Thursday, September 12th.
UPDATE: KOOMA Cherry Hill is OPEN! Check out the Photo Tour!
The location for the upscale restaurant is on the exterior of the Cherry Hill Mall, at the entrance closest to the Apple store and Macy’s. I wrote about Kooma most recently last month when I shared the news on an “End of Summer” opening. Well it’s still Summer!
Kooma restaurants offer an Asian-Fusion dining experience featuring dishes from South Korea, Thailand, Japan and more.
An innovative and high-quality menu is paramount to the ownership, and that upscale high-quality experience transcends into the dining space which features several large paintings from famed Italian artist Pier Toffoletti… known for his feminine subject abstract art.
While Kooma is just now building out their online presence for the new Cherry Hill location (I am the first Facebook follower and second on Instagram!), but their recently created Facebook page highlights some of their most signature menu items…
We are known for our amazing, high quality sushi, sashimi and rolls. We offer seating at our sushi bar so you can watch the chefs at work. Book your reservation starting Sept. 12th….
Kooma Cherry Hill – Facebook
Kooma has incredible martinis and cocktails-we are opening soon in the Cherry Hill Mall!
While Sushi and Sashimi make up a signature part of the dining experience, based on menus from their other locations Kooma is also known for their Korean Stonepot Bibimbaps as well as beef hibachi, teriyaki chicken or salmon, Japanese style pork belly and even a seafood pot of boiled scallops, king crab, seasonal clams, shrimp and mussels with yuzu butter and more!
With locations in West Chester and King of Prussia PA, Kooma has already established itself as top restaurant destination in the Philadelphia Metro-Area offering a “modern, fine dining touch to the traditional experience”.
To that point the new Cherry Hill restaurant features beautiful large artworks of Italian artist Pier Toffoletti (scroll down), who was on site recently to manage the installation of his large artwork pieces.
Pier Is known as a feminine abstract artist, and for Kooma Cherry Hill he has a half dozen or more large female face paintings, which are based black and white color palette but with splashes of color.
Earlier this month I actually had a chance to walk through the front of the restaurant… literally just walking in like I’m a unknowing potential customer (ha!) and saw the beautiful restaurant which at the time had a packed house… Kooma employees going through various stages of training.
I was not allowed to take photos at that time but as you can see, artist Pier has shared photos of his beautiful artwork adorning the walls of equally amazing restaurant.
The Kooma Cherry Hill space appears to be broken out into two separate comfortably sized rooms.
Dining tables of course fill the front space but also a fun bench seating area can be seen in Pier’s images.
The main dining room at the front of the restaurant also features a large sushi bar where guests can sit and watch the chefs prepare fresh sushi and sashimi dishes directly in front of them.
A space that appears to be a second dining room in the rear offers incredible overhead hanging lamps which look like fireworks permanently frozen in time… with the painting of a beautiful woman gazing out over the fireworks show.
Multiple images below. Be sure to scroll!
I stopped in yesterday hoping to get a opportunity to pop in and take my own photos, but luck was not on my side.
I was chatting with a mall store employee who was waiting outside, who told me about the private pre-opening event which took place the night before…describing the aromas coming out of the building smelled incredible and seemed to completely enveloped the entire entrance area to the mall causing many to stop and wonder “what is this new place?!”
Well hopefully this roving restaurant and retail reporter will very soon find his way into Kooma for the full dining experience… Not only have I stopped over several times, I am your first Facebook follower, and second on your Instagram. Send me an email at Mark at 42Freeway.com! 🙂
Links and Location
Kooma Asian Fusion & Martini Bar
Cherry Hill Mall
2000 Route 38, Suite 1025
Cherry Hill, NJ 08002
Kooma Cherry Hill Online (Online presence under development)