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Babylon Restaurant & Lounge

Moorooka

Updated: Oct 16, 2025

Babylon Restaurant and Lounge is dishing up traditional Iraqi cuisine from its home tucked away on Moorooka's main shopping strip.

Iraqi food on a plate at Babylon Restaurant & Lounge Moorooka

The casual yet slick restaurant has a menu of delicious dishes, starting with Hummus bi Lahem, Baba Ganoush, Tzatziki (Jajeck) falafel or grilled haloumi plate. 

Iraqi food in a bowl at Babylon Restaurant & Lounge Moorooka

To follow, there's a selection of delicious chicken or lamb kababs or gyro, chicken burger and fattoush, tabouli or grilled chicken salad.

Iraqi chicken and food on a plate with Babylon Restaurant & Lounge Moorooka

Larger plates include family charcoal chicken, Chicken or Lamb Teeka, Vegetarian or Iraqi Kebab plate as well as delectable HSP handmade chicken of beef. Whole charcoal chicken or, for a selection of everything, the Babylon Grill Plate.

Meat and chips on a plate at Babylon Restaurant & Lounge Moorooka

Serves are generous and the meals, which have a home-cooked quality, are good value. 

Need to know - There is limited street parking on Beaudesert Rd or in the streets around Woolworths.

The menu may have changed since our visit.

Image credits: All food images courtesy of Babylon Restaurant and Lounge Facebook page.

Babylon Restaurant & Lounge

1/139 Beaudesert Rd

Moorooka

Opening hours

Not licensed

3855 9073

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