This part of the Maroush massive, like its various siblings along the Middle Eastern enclave that is Edgware Road, is a livelier location when the sun goes down than it is during the day. That said, the ever popular Beirut Express, a favourite on-the-hoof haunt of Mourad ‘Momo’ Mazouz, which serves good quality meze, char-grilled meats, shawarma, salads and the usual fine selection of freshly made fruit juices until the small hours, is much less of a nocturnal beast than many of its neighbouring cafés and restaurants. Open every day for breakfast from 7am, when if you’re feeing fragile you can hunker down and work out how you’re going to face the world with a Lebanese coffee, so strong and thick that you can almost stand a teaspoon up in it, and some scrambled eggs served with homemade spicy beef sausage.