Its been nearly a year since I ate at the Babylon Roof Gardens. On my last visit the food looked really good but I couldn’t taste any of it because of my cold! Its no hardship to visit the restaurant since is nearly practically in my neighbourhood and with me working just down the road for the time being it couldn’t have been easier to meet Su Yin there for dinner tonight. Approaching winter it gets really dark pretty quickly now so it was certainly a different feel to the lunch time visit I had previously.

Happy to see the fish were still there though in the toilets … well, as a wall between the men’s and ladies’ facilities anyway …

We ate off a set meal deal. Options on the menu were actually pretty good though, as usual, limited to three choices for starters, mains and dessert. Oh, we did get some bread … which had Su Yin engaged in taking inappropriate photos of … but the lighting was really too low to get a proper picture of the bread.

For starters neither of us could go past the promise of truffle in the Truffle Risotto. The portion size wasn’t huge but more than enough to get us started with our meal. Looks a bit scary up close but gratified to see plenty of evidence of truffle oil and truffle shavings.

For mains we had a choice between Pork Belly, Salmon and Butternut Squash Lasagne. All three very empting, even the vegetarian option, but certainly the pork belly was always going to pretty much get my vote. Especially as it too came with a truffle vinaigrette. Su Yin’s choice was the Salmon. Both looked very appetising and I was very happy to see both were wonderfully colourful and balanced out with some green. Pork Belly was lovely … though most people might say there was a bit too much fat. But you’ve gotta have the fat to make it tasty! Perfect crackling on top too.

Desserts were an absolute treat. Rather randomly the Crème Brulee, catching my eye because the brulee was supposedly infused with cinnamon, came with a Granny Smith apple juice served in a shot glass. Su Yin’s White Chocolate & Cranberry Cheesecake was less one cheesecake than a trio of desserts and included a chocolate madeleine and sorbet. You’d only deduct which of her three items was the cheesecakes from the fact you would recognise what the other three items were! And following the trend of the moment the cheesecake contained popping candy …

I was very impressed with the food at Babylon Roof Gardens tonight. On the set menu the food was certainly good value for money. Service was decent tonight without anything really to rave about.