“Fall in love with Babil at Oddfellows, Colac’s new Turkish restaurant. The menu is an eclectic mix of dishes from across Turkey.Move on to a dolma biber – capsicum stuffed with rice cooked with onion, garlic and tomato, redolent with cinnamon.

Deleted: Always consider the mantil – Turkey’s answer to ravioli. Little flat dumplings of pasta filled with minced lamb flavoured with cumin amongst other spices. It is slathered in a reduced tomato sauce seasoned with dried mint and a little whack of paprika. With walnuts for crunch and garlic yoghurt for a cooling touch, this is the go-to dish.

Deleted: Look out for the small selection of Turkish wines and ask what seafood is on the menu. Come for lunch and enjoy the Turkish pop, or at dinner, the room switches to slightly more traditional Meyhane songs – folk songs performed in bars by men with smoke-cured vocal cords, lubricated by too much raki. Finish with a thick and fragrant Turkish coffee and a sugar-dusted cube of Turkish delight.”

One Hour Out

“Babil thank you for the most delicious meal today. The smell of the food was so tempting to stop on the way home to eat rather than when we got home. Meal was hot and fresh the flavours were amazing we enjoyed chicken burger combo, beef burger combo and calamari combo look forward to coming back and being able to eat in after lockdown. Highly recommend 🙂”

Kylie Manning

“What a great experience visiting Babil in Colac today, fantastic and delicious food, great and friendly staff, great customer service, very clean, highly recommend anyone to try it out when passing through Colac.”

Hakan Cevik

“Most amazing food I have ever tasted. Definitely a favourite in our home.”

Bryony Lappas