Fay Maschler samples Algerian-American at Mayfair's 'Mo Diner' in her new restaurant column
Instagram: @modinerlondon Itâs 2015 and Mourad Mazouz â the Algerian-born restaurateur and author of ventures as varied as the Basque bistro Au Bascou in Paris, the high-kicking Moroccan extravaganza Momo and sensual, multilayered Sketch in London â reads a piece in The New York Times about the gradual disappearance of the American diner. A few years later, Mazouz decides to breathe new life into the countertop-and-booth-seating aesthetic seen in almost every American high-school movie by launching Mo Diner. The narrow site beside his recently refurbished and reinvigorated Mom...