In 1946 Mo and her friend Freddie start their first business “Freddie & Mo’s” on the waterfront.

Early one morning a woman returned to her car parked outside the restaurant, put it in drive instead of reverse and crashed through the front of the café. Mo, far from disgruntled, put her arm comfortingly around the woman and said, “Well, we’ll just put in a garage door so you can drive in anytime you want.”

Senator Robert Kennedy, who came through Newport on his presidential campaign tour in May of 1968, liked Mo’s chowder so much that he took a couple extra quarts with him on the air plane. He even invited Mo to join them on the trip to Los Angeles.

22 years after Mo started her first cafe, she was able to expand her business concept across the street in a beautiful riverfront building and called it “Mo’s Annex”

Mo and her business partner Alberta found a quaint little spot in Otter Rock to open up the third Mo’s location and called it Mo’s West.

In 2009 Mo’s purchases the the property west of the Original Mo’s and doubles capacity from it’s original 50 seat dining room to 100 seats as well as expanding the kitchen and wait staff areas to accommodate the increased customer capacity.