Moss Cafe to Open on Downtown Willamette Street in May

Moss Culinary Studio plans to open Moss Cafe at 992 Willamette St. in downtown Eugene, moving into the longtime Poppi’s Anatolia space and aiming for a May opening this spring. Founders include baker and chef Katie Moss and a partner whose last name appears variously in reports as MacFadyen or MacFayden and elsewhere as Cody Owens; the couple announced the lease and key turnover on Instagram.

The 992 Willamette St. storefront is described by local reporting as having a feel of “old Eugene” with warm wooden buildouts, high ceilings, and quirky charm, a character the Moss team says it intends to preserve as it converts the corner into a market-driven cafe. Poppi’s Anatolia recently relocated to the 5th Street Public Market and now operates as Poppi’s Greek Taverna, leaving the downtown site available for a new tenant after decades of culinary activity at the address.

Moss traces its start to 2025 as a bakery and kitchen that sold at the Lane County Farmers Market, and founders began looking for a brick-and-mortar location in the middle of summer 2025. Katie Moss said the move to a physical cafe was driven by practical operations: “We were like, man, this would almost be easier as a brick and mortar, because we would have multiple days of consecutive cooking and multiple days we could use ingredients and not have to buy everything fresh for every single bake.”

On menu strategy, Moss told reporters by email that the seasonal menu “will be an extension of what we already offer at Lane County Farmers Market,” with an emphasis on Willamette Valley produce, meats, dairy, and grains. Local coverage lists likely offerings including yogurt and granola, sandwiches, soups, salads, and a rotating selection of cakes, cookies, and savory pastries, plus gluten-free and vegan options; Moss said she wants the cafe to be “a place people can stop in daily, whether for a quick coffee or a lingering lunch.”

Their partner — identified in one local report as Cody MacFadyen (also spelled MacFayden) and in another as Cody Owens — reflected on the business’s growth from markets to a fixed address: “Every business, when it starts off, goes through its growing pains. But it really started taking off when Katie started doing what she was interested in.”

The owners have not yet published a specific opening day or hours for the Willamette Street location. If Moss meets its target to open in May, the cafe will reuse a downtown corner that has long served as a culinary anchor and add a farmers-market-rooted operation to Eugene’s central business district, with an on-site bakery rotation and expanded cook-day capacity that founders say will let them scale beyond weekend markets.