MoMo Italian Kitchen will celebrate 40 years in business in 2026 with specials and discounts.
The menu at MoMo Italian Kitchen still features the tried-and-true favorites from the Gosetti family’s cookbooks. (Photo by Kathy Tran)
Launched in 1986 by Antonio Gattini, the son of Italian cookbook author Fernanda Gosetti, MoMo has been through an ownership change, a move and naming confusion through its four decades in business. Its menu specializes in heavier, Northern Italian-inspired pastas like agnolotti ai formaggi and mandilli di seta (roughly translates to silk handkerchiefs), a dish of pasta squares served with pesto and tomato.
The restaurant moved into its current space near the Texas Instruments campus on Forest Lane in the early 2010s. Since that time, a full bar and wine room has been added to the restaurant’s footprint. Current owners Wende Stevenson and Aaron Gross acquired the business from Antonio’s son, Carlo, in 2017 after Gattini opened Botolino Gelato Artigianale on Lower Greenville.
Stevenson worked at the original location in 1988 and introduced Gross to it when they started dating in the early 2000s, which led them to put in an offer when it became available.
“It became one of our favorite restaurants over the years, so that was like the early 2000s, all the way until we took it over,” Gross said. “And still, to this day, it is kind of our Sunday night date spot night.
To celebrate the anniversary, MoMo will offer special deals each Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. In January, the restaurant will offer a four-course meal special for tables of 2. For $80, customers will get two salads, two pasta dishes, and an appetizer or dessert.
MoMo will also mark select, rotating bottles of wine down to $40 as a nod to the anniversary. For January, the discounted bottles include a sangiovese-syrah blend and a Ligurian rose.
More specials and discounts will be announced as the year progresses.
Dining and Cooking