Momo, 25 Heddon Street, W1

Hidden away in a tiny side-alley off Regent Street, you’re not likely to stumble across Mahgreb restaurant Momo by accident. The creation of Mourad Mazouz, the owner of 404 Restaurant in Paris, this North African fantasia, embracing Tunisian, Algerian and Moroccan cuisine, is a riot of exoticism and a fave celeb hangout. The place to sit down and pump your friends for advice before that vital first date, as Bridget (Renée Zellweger) does in Bridget Jones’s Diary.

Trivia: if there is an eerie familiarity to Heddon Street, that might be because this is famously the darkly ominous alley on the cover of David Bowie’s 1972 album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.

Momo

Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001, dir: Sharon Maguire)