Monsoon, Nocturne Make Newsday Top Restaurants Lists

Monsoon and Nocturne, two of Babylon Village's newest restaurants, made Newsday's fine dining critic Peter Gianotti's top restaurants list for 2012.

Monsoon, the Asian Kitchen and Bistro located in the old Bank of Babylon building on Deer Park Avenue, was noted for its "electric, pan-Asian reverie." Newsday said the restaurant "reinvigorated dining in Babylon" with its chef, Michael Wilson.

The restaurant was given a four-star rating and a number-one ranking.

The newspaper suggested dumplings, steamed buns, kung pao monkfish, curry crab, shaking beef and called the Bejing duck the best on Long Island.

Nocturne Restaurant, which opened earlier this year, was noted for its "French and New American fare in a dining room that stays sunny in winter," Gianotti wrote. "The result is unfussy and focused."

The restaurant was among three Long Island eateries noted for being a restaurant "where the price is right."