Walk Broadway between 57th and 58th on a Wednesday afternoon and you'll notice the window at 5780 has a new name in it again. Not a new business exactly. The same business that moved in last fall, now under its second name since MoMo's closed.
If you've lived in Tahoe Park long enough to remember standing in line for ribs at MoMo's Meat Market, you already know something changed here. What most people haven't tracked is how many times.
One Address, Three Names
As WhatNow reported, MoMo's ran out of 5780 Broadway for 14 years before it closed in February 2025. That's a long run for any independent restaurant on a residential-adjacent stretch like Broadway, and it's part of why the space sat in local memory as more than a burger stop. It was a fixture.
What replaced it wasn't a straightforward reopening. Pure Soul Plant-Based Eats, a vegan comfort food operation that had been running as a ghost kitchen out of The Garden at the Line in East Sacramento, closed that ghost kitchen on a Sunday in September and moved its full operation into the old MoMo's address, according to reporting picked up from the Sacramento Business Journal. That's stage one: a delivery-only brand moving into a storefront.
Stage two came later. By spring 2026, the same address had rebranded again, this time to Pure Soul Kitchen Co., with a genuine sit-down menu of stacked sandwiches and brunch plates. It's not running full week hours. As of this summer it's open four days, Wednesday through Saturday, noon to 8pm.
So the honest version of the story isn't "MoMo's closed, something else opened." It's one address that has now hosted a barbecue institution, a ghost kitchen in transition, and a sit-down vegan restaurant, all inside about two years.
Founder Jamie Cavanaugh described the move in a social post at the time as turning the page to a new chapter. It's a small line, but it captures what the address itself has been doing since MoMo's left. Every tenant since has been figuring out, in real time, what this particular storefront wants to be.
What Hasn't Moved
The reason that one address gets to experiment is that almost nothing else on this stretch of Broadway has to.
A short list of what's been in the same spot long enough that residents stopped noticing:
- Bacon & Butter, the breakfast and brunch spot a few doors down at 5913 Broadway, still pulls a line that forms before it opens. It holds a Michelin Guide Plate Award, and that recognition plus more than a decade of regulars means it isn't the kind of business that tests a concept and moves on.
- Village Drive-In, the burger counter on 60th Street just off Broadway, has been serving the same chili cheese fries and double bacon cheeseburgers long enough that it reads as a neighborhood landmark rather than a fast food option.
- Café Colonial keeps its indie and alternative live music nights running on a schedule regulars already know, the kind of small bar booking that doesn't show up on a map but shapes what a Friday night actually looks like here.
None of these businesses are new, and none of them are going anywhere. That's the part of Broadway that doesn't change year to year. It's also why a closure like MoMo's registers as a real loss instead of routine turnover. When an anchor leaves, it's noticed precisely because anchors here don't usually leave.
The Newer Names Near 58th
The stretch closer to 58th has picked up two names that weren't part of the neighborhood conversation a few years ago: Tokyo Table and Mezcal Grill, sitting next to each other and drawing enough traffic that both show up on the shortlist locals give out-of-towners now.
Tokyo Table's own explanation for landing on this block is straightforward. The team has said they chose Tahoe Park because they believe in the community, and positioned the restaurant as close enough to be convenient without competing with Midtown for parking or foot traffic. Tokyo Table opened with a full concept next to an already-busy Mezcal Grill.
What This Actually Tells You About Broadway
We've written before about how Pocket-Greenhaven's storefronts never sit empty because a departing owner is almost always replaced by another local operator rather than a chain. Tahoe Park's version of that pattern is a little different, and it's worth naming directly: this isn't primarily about ownership changing hands between neighbors. It's about a small number of addresses on Broadway functioning like test kitchens, cycling through concepts while the businesses around them stay fixed.
That distinction matters if you're the kind of resident who tracks these things on your daily walk. A closure at 5780 doesn't tell you anything about the health of Bacon & Butter's line or whether Village Drive-In's grill is still running hot on a Saturday. Those are separate questions with separate, stable answers. What's actually in motion on this street is a much smaller set of storefronts still figuring out what they want to be, and 5780 has been the clearest example of that since MoMo's left.
None of this is happening in a neighborhood that's struggling to hold onto its identity. Tahoe Park was ranked the 4th friendliest neighborhood in Sacramento on Nextdoor this year, a distinction tied to the park itself, the walkability, and a neighborhood association that's been organizing around Broadway and 59th Street for years. The businesses come and go in pieces. The reasons people stay don't.
If you're new to the block, or you've just been meaning to actually try whatever's behind that window at 5780 this month, that's the state of things as of September 2026. It's Pure Soul Kitchen Co., Wednesday through Saturday, and it's the second name that address has worn since MoMo's closed.
A Local's Perspective, When You're Ready
Tracking what changes on a street like Broadway, and what doesn't, is the same kind of attention that goes into understanding a neighborhood before you buy or sell in it. If you're curious about what else is happening across Sacramento's neighborhoods, or you'd like a longtime resident's read on a specific pocket of the city, Jared Labarga has spent years watching these blocks change one storefront at a time. Explore more of the Sacramento neighborhood guide or Let's Connect if you have questions about this part of town.
