"The ultimate all-rounder, Babylon is a cafe and restaurant in Raynes Park that’s worth spending a morning, afternoon, or casual evening in. You’ll often find suburban mums catching up over oat milk lattes and a slice of carrot cake, and locals popping in for a speedy chickpea salad lunch on their way home from the post office. Sometimes they have salads on the counter for you to choose from, but otherwise the grilled chicken salad and the halloumi salad are excellent and can be ordered to go. If you’re eating in, our favourite place to sit is on one of the tables by the window for maximum people-watching." - heidi lauth beasley, daisy meager, sinead cranna, jake missing, rianne shlebak