MoMo Chicken and Jazz, the Korean chicken concept with the outdoor patio on Cordell Avenue, is having its soft opening on Tuesday and expects to have its official grand opening on the weekend of May 31.
We reported the restaurant (4862 Cordell Ave.) would be named Turntable. But it was actually renamed MoMo shortly after it listed Turntable as its name at its liquor board hearing in April, said Rose Kim.
Kim is helping owner Sung Kim run the restaurant, which on Tuesday already had a few lunch customers browsing through the menu of fried chicken, bento boxes, teriyaki, bulgogi, pork spare ribs and other Korean barbecue items.
The outdoor patio has about five rows of seating and there’s an inside bar. There are classic records and record players on the exposed brick wall and old typewriters, fans and vintage Coke bottles on the shelves.
It’s almost identical to the vibe inside the Turntable Mad For Chicken restaurant in Manhattan’s Koreatown. MoMo will also have beer towers, another well known feature at Turntable. The logos both feature roosters.
Kim said MoMo is unrelated to the restaurant in New York City and that it used the Turntable moniker simply as the company name for Montgomery County building permits and the alcohol license.
MoMo will be open from 11 a.m. to midnight during the week and from 11 a.m. to 2 a.m. on the weekend.
