Private Dining Rooms

Overview

Set in the cool Heddon Street foodie quarter just off Regent Street, Momo does north African in an unber cool way. The private dining room is accessed through a separate entrance to the main restaurant ensuring total privacy for guests.

Down a classical stone staircase which has a distinct Moroccan feel to it enhanced by candles in alcoves and winding steps, they lead to a heavy wooden door, like entering Aladdin’s Cave.

And so it is. The room seats 52 maximum (or 20 minimum) and is not your average private room. It’s North African tone means tables are assorted and chairs are grouped into smaller tables, some in the main area, some in alcoves. Colours are also eclectic, the range of bright reds, yellows, oranges, blues and greens softened by the low warm lighting which casts leaf shaped shadows on the floor and furniture and giving the room a cosy and relaxed feel.

There are five main seating areas, one at the long bar which dominates one side of the room, the other three on each side, although its higgledy piggeldy nature means it feels much more random than that. There’s also set of small tables in the middle. However, for larger functions tables can be rearranged to accommodate numbers in longer rows but without ruining the ambience of the venue.

Two alcoves have banquettes, one is red leather with box lighting underneath on a raised platform covered in a leopard skin rug surrounded by subtle, yet intriguing red and black snakeskin curtains. The other, directly opposite the entrance is grotto-like with textured and pattered velvet banquettes and gold snakeskin adorning the walls of the booth.

There are also shabby-chic leather armchairs arranged around tiny mosaic tables. The whole feels cosy, bordering on illicit – this is a great place to come if you want to let your hair down in relative obscurity – the pdr does share the toilets with the main restaurant but otherwise guests of two rooms won’t mix.

There is a hire charge or minimum spend on application depending on the time of the event. Food here ranges from a canapé and drinks offer to a full sharing menu of traditional North African food, akin to a feast and takes in everything from falafel and bourek to couscous and tagines.