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Supporting Our Community

We're much more than just a local curry house!  We're all about supporting our community! COOKING FOR COMMUNITY CASSEROLES With your generous donations, we've cooked over 2000 meals for those in our community financially struggling and who could do with some Babajis love. To date, our community has helped us to raise   $7800 (August 2024) You are welcome to contribute to this fund when visiting the restaurant or when ordering online. MONTHLY COMMUNITY DAYS...

Sadyha

Sadyha - Our banana leaf feast! The dish that truly takes you to Kerala. 12 different Kerala vegetarian dishes, served with matta rice on fresh banana leaf.  Don't forget our fish fry & beef fry as a side dish!Fingers encouraged! 

$12 lunch special at Babajis Warburton on Weekdays!

Enjoy views of the river and mountain as you enjoy a South Indian feast at Babajis Warburton. Vegetarian thali - served with 5 vegetarian curries, rice & poppodam. $12 Chicken / beef thali - served with 1 meat and 4 vegetarian curries, rice & poppodam. $15 Pair it with a glass of Yarra Valley wine or a hot chai and you've got yourself a relaxing afternoon in the Yarra Valley. Available for week day lunch, Mon, Thurs and Fridays, 12-3.30pm.

Free toboggan hire at Babajis Warburton!

Did you know the closest snow to Melbourne is in Warburton!  Just 75km from the CBD, head to Mount Donna Buang for some snow fun! Stop by Babajis Warburton on your way to  the mountain, hire a Babajis toboggan and hit the slopes! Join in for lunch or dinner after your snow adventure by our open fires and we'll refund your toboggan hire. Bookings recommended. Walk-ins welcome. T&C's $25 deposit per toboggan, refunded on toboggans return after a $25 spend per tobog...

Win with our winter treasure hunt in Warburton!

Follow our clues on our social media, solve the mystery to find a $100 voucher for TAKE AWAY at Babajis Warburton.  Somewhere along the Warburton Highway - from Yarra Junction to Reefton are 12 vouchers hidden. Each Monday at 3.45pm, throughout winter,  we drop a clue on our socials.  Opening hours for take away and dine in: Mon, Thurs 12-8pm Fri, Sat 12-9pm Sun 12-8pm T & C Vouchers only valid with direct phone or walk in orders. Not online ordering.  You...

June '24 - $280 Raised for Tecoma Pre School & $250 Raised for the Warburton Weapons

 BELGRAVE - Thurs 13 June - Tecoma Pre School This month it was our little-ist folk that need a helping hand! So at this month's Community Day in Belgrave, we'll raised $280 for the  Tecoma Pre Schoolto help them build an outdoor play area. Kids off screens. Sounds good, right!  WARBURTON - Thurs 27 June - Warby Weapons Basketball Club This A.MAZING. new all abilities basketball team in Warby needed our help to raise funds for some end of season awards! Job...

Thurs 8th August '24 - Paint, Sip & Dine at Babajis Warburton

Gather some friends, be guided by an art tutor and create your own masterpiece with Art Bar's Sip & Paint ! Arrive at 5.30pm. Grab a bite to eat from our South Indian buffet. The class starts at 6.30pm with all art materials supplied. No experience needed. Just a creative spirit. $55 Ticket for the Sip & Paint Art Class. $80 Sip and Paint class + South Indian buffet + your choice of a mocktail / mulled wine / glass of prosecco / pot of house lager.

Five Strangers, One Table

Who will you meet tonight? Newish to town? Passing through town? Or is it just time to meet some new mates? HOW do you even do that in 2024?  Put your phone down. Stop mindlessly scrolling on Tik Tok and come join us 'at our table'. Every Monday night, at Babajis, 6.30pm, we'll have a table of 5 ready to go - for five strangers, to come together. We promise, no awkward silences, no dodgy nametags (and no anxiety that you can't remember others names) and just a chance to meet...

Quiz me Baby, One More Time! It's a 90's Quiz night!

Book the babysitter and get ready for a blast from the past! We're having a 90's themed Quiz night hosted by our very own Quizteena Aguilera! Gather your mates, down a 90s cocktail and test your knowledge of the hottest 90s music hits, film and sports events that defined the 90s! Come dressed in your best 90s fashion - grunge, denim, and hypercolour tshirts. The kitchens open for dinner. 10% off for our Quizzers.  Prizes await the best dressed and our top trivia buffs! $5...

'Call yourself a Local' Quiz Night

Local icons. Local myths. Local quirks. Do you know your Bobs from your Boingas? 6 September '24  Come and find out just how truly local you are at our 'Locals' Quiz night! Test your Upper Yarra knowledge.  Awesome prizes for the winners. Bookings recommended.   $5 a ticket.   $30 Babajis buffet + pot of house lager or glass of wine(Curries, rice, pappadam, naan, raita. Vegan options)   $10 Schooner House Lager | $10 Local wines | $14 cocktails

August '24 $550 raised for Warby Primary & $380 raised for Belgrave Junior Footy Club

Did the whole of Warby Primary turn up at Babajis Warburton last night? We think so!  Good job Warby Primary - with communities help, we raised $550 for some new books for their library! And we kicked some goals for Belgrave Junior Footy Club raising $380 to help with the rebuild of their clubrooms! See you for next months Community Day x  

MELBOURNE FOOD & WINE FESTIVAL '25. A BANANA LEAF FEAST BY THE BIRRARUNG RIVER, WARBURTON

Sunday 30 March '25 Enjoy a unique foodie experience in a spectacular location for this year's Melbourne Food & Wine Festival as Babajis creates Warburtons very first  banana leaf long table feast along the banks of the Birrarung (Yarra River).  Here's your chance to engage with thousands of years of Southern Indian tradition and try dishes rarely found in Australia as we present a feast straight from the village kitchen of Southern India, with live Indian music and Yarra...