New late-night Brewery District concept to feature craft cocktails, Coney dogs and Taiwanese noodles

A handful of former Watershed Kitchen & Bar veterans are converting the former home of The Clarmont and Panera Bread into a 5,000-plus square foot hub for late-night noodles, Coney dogs and craft cocktails. 

The new concept, Cobra, will be located at 684 S. High St.

According to co-owner and former Watershed sous chef and Saddleback executive chef Jack Dale Bennett (other co-owners include Alex Chien, Josh Spiers and David Yee), Cobra is pushing hard for an April opening. But from now until its opening date comes, foodies will get a weekly chance to sample some of the new concept’s food and drink offerings.

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Sunday Slurp, a new pop-up from Cobra, will hold its first iteration on Feb. 19, from 3-10 p.m. The event will make its home at Woodhouse Vegan in the Short North–located at 19 W. Russel St.–every Sunday until Cobra opens its doors.

“We’re going to keep [the pop-up] very noodle-focused, with a set menu of different noodles we’ll offer at Cobra available each week,” Bennett said. “Some of our cocktails will be available on a rotating basis, and we’ll have our dumplings as well.”

Bennett added that as Sunday Slurp continues, the menu will expand to include more of Cobra’s offerings.

“Once we get into a rhythm, we’ll add more, we’ll have more fun with it,” he said.

While Sunday Slurp will lean into Cobra’s noodles, the eclectic concept will also serve Coney dogs, burgers and dishes cooked on a live-fire Yakitori grill.

Billed as a late-night spot, Bennett said Cobra will eventually be open nightly until 1:45 a.m.

“We want this to be a neighborhood American bar with a Taiwainese-American menu,” he said. “The kind of place you can come to any night of the week to get a beer and some food, even if it’s late.”

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