I went there a couple of times with my friends and I always had a great time. I got to know most of the staff there and they are really friendly and nice. The bar opens around or after 10pm so I m not surprised that you found the place how it was. So far I m quite satisfied with the services, last time I ordered an Indian food and I needed to wait for it a bit longer than the others but they apologised and invited me for a starter on the menu. The food was great too. Loved it!!
I like the place and I recommend it!! Especially on Fridays when the live music is on! So amazing !!;))))

So glad to see a genuine review with regards to Babalou. This place is awful. The barman was ignorant and rude, when we turned up for a pre-booked meal we were left hanging in the entrance lobby the managwer wandered off presumably to show us to our seat, we followed only to find he was going over to turn the music up. He looked confused when i asked where we were sitting and told us to sit anywhere. I went back to my partner and we found a seat. the place was empty although we were assured that it was always busy for eating around 8:30pm. We had to go up to the bar to order a drink. Think there is a confusion between being a nightclub and being a resturant. We WENT to Babalou the resturant not the nightclub i must point out. We ordered a sharing platter consisting of 5 starters. When the food arrived it was presented on a brass platter, however the food was so saturated in grease as everything had been through the deep fryer that it had to be served up on two layers of kitchen towel which was most un appertizing however highlighted the amount of grease present as the kitchen towel was saturated in grease.
Unpreturbed, we attempted to eat from the platter, The meat dishes were extremely hard, the grilled dumplings, that were in fact deep fried dumplings were greasy and hard, the prawn toast looked worse than you might get from the budget range from any of the local supermarket chains. After several attempts we asked to speak to the manager he commented that the 'food looked ok' i asked him to try it, he replied 'it is ok' i then asked to speak to the chief hoping to get get further with him as he, i assumed had some level of culinary expertise. When 'the chief' came out of the kitchen, instead of listening, he started off by defending the stuff presented on the platter as' this is how it is meant to be' instead of taking time to listen to the remarks made by my girlfriend and i. The food we had paid for was bought as part of a deal offered by KGB Deals. The chief