Babette – Restaurant & Bar, the first casual French-Japanese resto-bar along Tyrwhitt Road, is set to jazz up the Jalan Besar stretch with its offering of urban industrial swank.

Inspired by the 1980s film “Babette’s Feast” – a Danish film about how a good chef can transform a dinner into a love affair – the 64-seater restaurant puts a spotlight on simple and honest food.

The menu draws inspiration from familiar flavours in comfort dishes, but often with a tongue-in-cheek ‘Babette twist’. And while most of the dishes are prepared using classic French techniques, Japanese ingredients are also a mainstay feature in the main courses as well.

Decked with custom-made wooden furniture pieces and concrete floors juxtaposed with red brick walls, Babette is set to be an unpretentious but hip dining and drinking spot where the selection of beers, wines, and cocktails also play an equal focus.

As food lovers who also enjoy kicking back over a mug of beer, the team has spent a lot of time ensuring the reinvented beer bites and French-Japanese main courses tickle both the palate and the imagination.