 The restaurant is owned by husband and wife team Brian and Kathy O'Brien, who have run other seafood restaurants in St. Louis and Florida. The couple had originally considered opening a restaurant in Nashville, but instead chose Bowling Green as it was a cheaper and less saturated market. Obistro will have a similar model to one of the O'Brien's previous restaurants, Oceano Bistro. It will serve fresh fish from the Gulf of Mexico, Baja California, and the coast of Alaska, among other spots.