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Interior Design: Geremy Lucas

The recently launched MoMo restaurant by innovative restaurateurs, Dean and Geremy Lucas, ushers in a new dining era.

Lauded as the best ‘hot new’ restaurant in Australia – MoMo refers back to the grand old days of gracious and elegant dining: a big and special night out!

To best showcase Greg Malouf’s exemplary Middle Eastern cuisine, MoMo has been designed as a glamorous restaurant and is all about magnificent dining, from beginning to end.

A private elevator ushers guests into the restaurant from the Grand Hyatt Melbourne, a cabinet of Middle Eastern artifacts light up in the elevator on the way down, the doors open up to a wine wall containing floor to ceiling exceptional fine and rare wines while
Greg Malouf’s portrait greets all guests upon arrival.

MoMo is incredibly spacious offering tables for 100 diners to sit comfortably within the capacious restaurant.

The first over all impression is that this is all about the wining and the dining. Not the view, not about a passing parade of people, and not about the kitchen as centre stage theatre.

Thankfully, the MoMo kitchen is tucked discretely behind closed doors. An invisible kitchen allows you to simply concentrate on your plate, your wine and your company.

All of which are enhanced by the sense of space and the undeniable surrounding luxury.

Designed by Geremy Lucas, the MoMo dining room is delightfully retro in its furniture and fittings, large soft banquettes encase diners in soft upholstered privacy and the tables are graciously spaced apart, unusual in a modern restaurant.

Hand designed and woven carpets, velvets and silks and tooled and embossed leathers all enhance the general feel of sumptuousness and quiet ambience.

Every aspect of this restaurant has been deeply considered and then briefed to artisan craftsman, from the miniature minarette’s atop the tables to the astonishingly beautiful Swarovski 25,000 crystal chandelier embedded in the ceiling.

All of MoMo dishes are presented on custom
made crockery by Rosenthal of Germany.

Says Geremy Lucas: “We are very proud of what we have achieved with MoMo and believe it is of world
class standard. This restaurant has been two years in the making and I believe the environment does justification to Greg Malouf’s exceptional food”.

MoMo can also be cleverly and discretely divided for private functions and special occasions. An adjacent private dining room can seat up to 10 guests.

Photography: Dianna Snape, Graeme Flinders