Babajis Kerala Kitchen Yarra Valley

Babajis Kerala Kitchen Yarra Valley 🌴 South Indian Restaurant. Warburton. Yarra Valley.

Australia
🔥 River views and open fires in winter
🐕 Pup friendly b**r garden
👯‍♂️ Sister - Babajis Belgrave
🎉 Event & wedding caterers

29/09/2026

Look Amma, Look Achan!
We’re on the 📺!

Thanks to the team from Postcards & Shane Delia
for visiting us at Babaji’s Kerala Kitchen Warburton | South Indian Restaurant!
(and to our community who popped in last minute to be our ‘extras’)

Hope we did Warby and Kerala proud.

BABAJI’S WARBURTON THIS WEEK
⏰ Is open every day for the school holidays for lunch & dinner.

🐟 Fish Cart runs on Sundays, from 12-4pm or until sold out. Bookings this weekend strongly recommended.

Did you catch us and our mates at Al Trancio on Ch9’s Postcards at the weekend?👉 https://www.9now.com.au/postcards/seaso...
27/09/2026

Did you catch us and our mates at Al Trancio on Ch9’s Postcards at the weekend?

👉 https://www.9now.com.au/postcards/season-2026/episode-30 (Forward to 15 mins in).

Thanks for coming to visit and promoting our beautiful town Shane Delia

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BABAJI’s THIS WEEK
👋 We’re open 7 days this week for the school holidays.
🐟 Fish Cart on Sundays only.

👋🏽 Hey there from Warby! (Greater Manchester, UK)Billy here.Thought I’d better stop in and show you all our sister town....
27/09/2026

👋🏽 Hey there from Warby! (Greater Manchester, UK)
Billy here.
Thought I’d better stop in and show you all our sister town.
(I’m travelling at the moment - 🇦🇿Azerbaijan 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿Georgia and 🇬🇧 Manchester to see the fam).

It’s flatter around these parts. A lot flatter. A little too flat for me for I’m suspicious of anywhere flat! 😂

This little town is documented in the 1086 Domesday book as ‘Warburgtune’ and today just 286 folk live here.

That pub you see, the Saracen’s Head… was built in the 17th century.
Legend has it Highway Man (bushranger) Dick Turpin stored his weapons here…

Sadly, its only just recently closed.
(Since Covid - many English pubs are closing with the hospitality industry struggling just as it is in Australia).

Curiously - the Warburton Toll Bridge, is one of England’s last remaining toll bridges. Privately built in 1863 to charge folk to cross the River Mersey.

In 1863, it cost 12 pence (26c) to cross the bridge and that price stayed the same until 2024!!! when the government changed the law to allow a price increase to £1 ($2.20)!
That’s a 700% increase - yep, the locals are pi**ed!

If you’re driving through Warby today - you’re probably heading to National Trust property just a couple of kms away - Dunham Massey, a fancy estate built in 1616, that has housed many an Earl and soldiers convalescing during WW1.

https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/cheshire-greater-manchester/dunham-massey/history-of-dunham-massey

👋 BABAJI’S THIS WEEK
Just a little reminder - we’re open every day this week for school holidays for lunch & dinner.

Bookings appreciated. Walk ins welcomed.

🐟 Fish cart runs on Sunday!

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‘Humans’ - book for the right amount of humans!!!It’s amazing how much it helps your hospo fam!Thanks folks xbabajiskitc...
25/09/2026

‘Humans’ - book for the right amount of humans!!!
It’s amazing how much it helps your hospo fam!

Thanks folks x

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Visiting us this long weekend? You need to know this!Important things first! Yes, we’ll have toddy! (And beef fry & Mal...
24/09/2026

Visiting us this long weekend? You need to know this!

Important things first! Yes, we’ll have toddy! (And beef fry & Malabar parotta & fish fry & all your Kerala favourites! 😋😋😋)

We ‘can’ be busy on public holidays. They are hard to plan for and hard to staff for us.

We’re located in small towns … which has its own challenges different to the city.
Please be kind.

But hey - you come from far & wide & we LOVE seeing you! 😊

Here’s what you need to know:

* We ‘may’ close to walk ins at 4-5.30pm to allow our staff to take breaks if we haven’t managed them.

* We ‘may’ stop take away - to help us give the best service to those dining with us that we can.

* We run a smaller menu on public holidays, which does not have dosa & sadya BUT it does have plenty for everyone ( vegetarians, gluten free, kids) and we WILL have all your Kerala favourites. You can find this on our website under ‘Menus’.

* We do have a 15% public holiday surcharge on Friday and our usual 10% surcharge on Sat & Sun. This contributes to - but does not fully cover - the cost of higher wages at these times. It’s not us being greedy - it’s us being able to look after our team.

BABAJI’S WARBURTON

🐕 We will close bookings for the b**r garden, the night before. Walk ins will still be welcome. So if you are bringing a pup - best to get organised and book your spot the day before.

🅿️ Parking can be tricky. You are welcome to use the RSL carpark just a couple of doors down (we have permission from the RSL). If parking on the local roads - please be mindful of locals & emergency services needing access. Parking inspectors will be out.

BABAJI’S BELGRAVE

🅿️ Parking options - Try Hayes Carpark, the carpark at the back of Woolworths or the big FREE carpark at the train station.

🌷 Tesselaar’s tulip festival is on and tickets are 30% off! Kids under 16 are FREE! It’s 15-20 mins from Babajis Belgrave.

Lets all have an awesome public holiday weekend!

X Babajis

23/09/2026

So - we may ‘look’ like we’re experts at getting stuff DONE - two restaurants running, catering, festival stalls and delivering wholesale curries all simulateously but truth is we’re just a bunch of clowns who took 3 VISITS to VicRoads to get a simple trailer registered! 🤪

❌ First visit - wrong paperwork 🤦‍♀️(& even with two lovely Vicroads staff - who happened to be Babajis fans - doing their best to find a workaround - bureaucracy wasn’t having it).

❌ Second visit - 🔑🔑🔑

Max to Jithin - ‘Do you have the keys?’ 😳
Jithin to Max - ‘I thought you did’ 😳

Resulting in a 3.30am call to Billy in Georgia (nr Russia) to help find the keys and the boys being an hour late for the appointment. 🤦‍♀️

Third appointment and we almost were sent away again - this time cos we didn’t have the right ID. 🤦‍♀️

They begged.

They tried unsuccessfully to bribe with beef curry & parotta.

Pity was taken and Vicroads (after seeing our desperation - passed us!) 🏆

Did we tell you we cater?
From our:
Festival marquees.
Vintage chai cart.
and now 👉 our super pretty trailer!

https://www.babajiskitchen.com.au/event-catering-kerala-south-indian-cuisine/south-indian-kerala-wedding-catering.html

👋 Babajis Warburton is open every day this school holiday and this public holiday weekend! Bookings strongly recommended. Walk ins welcome.
🐟 Fish cart ON this Sunday!

There are things you really can’t explain in life.Urban myths. Ghost stories… and more respectfully, for me sometimes (a...
21/09/2026

There are things you really can’t explain in life.
Urban myths.
Ghost stories
… and more respectfully, for me sometimes (and not being Indigenous myself), Indigenous wisdom.
But respect these mysteries of life - I do.
And this tale is one of those experiences.

Circle back to October 2023.
Babaji’s Warburton was still not open, for it seems it was harder than I thought to open a second restaurant whilst Babaji’s Belgrave was busy itself, managing the fallout of no staff after the ‘Covid era’.
The finances were drained.
We were desperate to get the doors open.

And so someone very special to us - (to protect her privacy - we’ll call her our ‘🧚 fairy godmother’), despite being in her older years - spent many an afternoon with me trying to get the last annoying bits done - to get us open.

We still had no electricity,
No mobile phone reception,
No internet…

and yet…

This naughty 🧚 godmother was up on a ladder.
And on that ladder she had an ‘episode’ (it’s still a mystery what actually happened).

Thankfully I caught her.
We were just near the pass to the kitchen.
But still, with her in my arms, holding her up and unconscious - I was trying to stay calm.

Helpless as Babajis wasn’t even open.
No-one was coming.

We weren’t listed on Google yet.

And the bookings weren’t even open.

I honestly didn’t know what I was going to do.

And then … for no reason, out of the blue - these two, Mathlini & Marion turn up. Long time customers of (& now friends) of .

I screamed, alerting them of our presence.

And that is where this story has a happy but mysterious ending.

Our 🧚 godmother was picked up by the ambos - I was relieved she was in safe hands.

The thing is - these two had a booking at Babajis Warburton.
And that booking was impossible.

They should not have been there!
For our booking system was not even set up!

True story. 😳

I’m forever grateful to the mysterious universe for foing its thing that day. 🫶

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👋 We’re open every day this school holidays.
🐟 Fish Cart back on this Sunday! Bookings strongly recommended.

We’ve changed how we cater. And it’s easy… (and we reckon - cost effective).We now offer all our curries from $2-10 per...
19/09/2026

We’ve changed how we cater. And it’s easy… (and we reckon - cost effective).

We now offer all our curries from $2-10 per person (minimum order 10px. 7 days notice)

Like the ‘Baywater Bashers’, shooting in Yellingbo this weekend.

30 (mostly) men fed for around $7.50 p.p

(with a little extra discount and ‘over full’ containers from us because we think what they are doing is awesome and we’re happy to help where we can).

Checkout their film – a comedy about camping, men’s mental health and embracing failure - here: https://artists.australianculturalfund.org.au/s/project/a2EMn00000jkLE1/the-bayswater-bashers

Need some delicious & nourishing catering for a group: https://tinyurl.com/bdf92cyx

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👋 We’re open every day this school holiday for lunch & dinner.

🐟 Our famous Sunday fish cart is BACK! 12pm- till sold out. Kallu available. Bookings strongly recommended.

18/09/2026

Our hearts are full - cooking for this bunch of local heroes. 🫶

Thank you for choosing Babajis tonight for your CFA Awards night and for all that you do to keep us all safe.

Babajis x

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👋 We’re open every day this school holiday for lunch & dinner.

🐟 Fish Cart starts back THIS Sunday lunch. From 12pm.

And you thought it’s weird to have a Kerala restaurant in Warburton! 😂True - I came to Azabaijan & Georgia to have a bre...
17/09/2026

And you thought it’s weird to have a Kerala restaurant in Warburton! 😂

True - I came to Azabaijan & Georgia to have a break from my ‘cultures’ …. (Aussie & Indians). Travel is the best medicine for ‘perspective’.

And just as I thought my mission had succeeded (& I was actually kinda craving some Babajis 😋) - there like a coned dosa standing proud - an Indian restaurant stood!

Interesting… As diversity in food is not something I’m going to have memories of this trip.
Who is eating here?
And where are they getting their curry leaves from? 😂

😊 Babaji’s Warby is open every day this school holidays. You know us - we can get busy - bookings recommended - especially at the long weekend.

🐟 Fish Cart starts again this Sunday.

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Address

3305 Warburton Highway
Warburton, VIC
3799

Opening Hours

Monday 12pm - 8pm
Thursday 12pm - 8pm
Friday 12pm - 9pm
Saturday 12pm - 9pm
Sunday 12pm - 8pm

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