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The Richmond Restaurant Group team - Jared Golden and Michelle Williams - are at it again, this time with a rebrand of their popular Carytown eatery Water Coastal Kitchen, plus a second location for the restaurant in the works.

If it sounds like a lot, that's because it is, but it's also just another week in the life of these restaurateurs who own six local restaurants - including The Daily Kitchen & Bar and both The Hard Shell locations - with now two more in the works.

"Basically, our lease was up and we were kind of at a crossroads," Williams said of Water Coastal Kitchen. "We knew it needed a major appearance overhaul, but we didn't want to invest they money in a name we weren't in love with."

Water Coastal Kitchen opened at 3411 W. Cary St. in Carytown in 2009 as Water Grill, but it didn't take long for the new restaurant to flag the attention of the owners of a trio of California restaurants with the same name.

"It started pretty quickly after we opened, within the first fix months or so," Williams said. After years of back and forth and failure to reach an agreement, the Richmond Restaurant Group decided the easiest thing to do was to simply change the name.