Café Ami, an all-day neighborhood café from MAC Hospitality Group, is planning to open in early 2027 at 450 Palladio Parkway in Folsom, in the space that was home to Mas Taco Bar. The taco restaurant closed for good on Sunday, Oct. 25, and the 3,500-square-foot space will be fully remodeled before the café opens. No exact opening date has been set.
The coffee shop will serve California-inspired food, specialty coffee and a pastry and dessert program made in partnership with Sacramento’s Ettore’s Bakery. Chef Dane Blom will lead the kitchen. The menu will center on sandwiches, salads and bowls, with service from morning coffee and breakfast through lunch, dinner and dessert.
The company says it is building the concept around simple, unfussy food and an easy, consistent experience from the first coffee of the day to dessert. It is aimed at Palladio shoppers, visitors to the Harris Center for the Arts and families who live and go to school nearby.
MAC Hospitality’s co-founder said Folsom remains an important community for the group and that the company was grateful to the Mas Taco Bar team and guests, according to a company news release. He said the new café is meant to reflect how people dine today and become part of their everyday routines. The company hasn’t said whether Mas Taco Bar employees will be offered jobs at its other restaurants or at Café Ami.
Mas Taco Bar was known for global takes on the taco, with fillings like banh mi shrimp, Indian butter chicken and Thai beef, along with pork belly, Korean fried chicken and fried oysters, as well as craft margaritas and more than 50 tequilas. The brand continues at its two Sacramento locations, on R Street and at Arden Town Center.
MAC Hospitality is led by brothers Mason, Alan and Curtis Wong, whose parents, Sun and May Wong, opened the Luau Garden buffet on Arden Way in 1976, making this year its 50th anniversary. The group also operates Cafeteria 15L, Casa Lola and MIX Downtown in Sacramento, and Iron Horse Tavern at the Palladio and on R Street. The Wong family, which also ran the Coco Palms nightclub next door to Luau Garden, has adapted its restaurants to changing tastes over the decades.
