Auburn area guide

Restaurants, shops and events in Auburn

Written by
Emily Lloyd-Tait
Auburn Peacock Gallery sculpture
Photograph: ELT
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Auburn is a cultural melting pot, and you only need look to their supermarkets to prove it. By our count we spot 15 – we’re not including big corporates like Woolies and Aldi here, but rather local, independent offerings. The North Asian ones on the South side of the station are where to head for fresh green bunches of gai lang and bok choy, and the north side contingent are dedicated to Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Turkish, Iranian, Nepali, Polynesian and Burmese staples. This is where you want to come for bulk spices, hug bags of rice, every pickle you can imagine and a thousand salty snacks. Some sell huge tubs of yoghurt and others kaymak in a jar, plus you’ll find chilli sauces, rose water, curry pastes and religious iconography just for good measure. The huge diversity of cultural backgrounds in Auburn is at the heart of its appeal.

The best restaurants in Auburn

New Star Kebabs

New Star Kebabs

  • 4 out of 5 stars

We’ve all been there. A late-night kebab loaded with meat and dripping with chilli sauce after a beer or three is a rite of passage. And even though New Star...

Dervish Turkish Restaurant

Dervish Turkish Restaurant

Pop in to this welcoming Turkish café where they’re rolling their lahmacum pastry wafer thin, topping it with a tender mix of minced lamb, onion, parlsey and...

Peranakan Place

Peranakan Place

  • 4 out of 5 stars
  • price 1 of 4

Relax, there’s no hydrogen cyanide left in the buah keluak seed by the time it ends up in your meal here. The seed is found inside the "football fruit" of the...

The best things to do in Auburn

Auburn Gallipoli Mosque

Auburn Gallipoli Mosque

The most striking thing about the Auburn skyline is the white dome of the Auburn Gallipoli Mosque, flanked by two slender minarets rising out of a shallow...

Auburn Botanic Gardens

Auburn Botanic Gardens

Tranquility might not be the buzzword that springs to mind when you think Auburn, but it’s the right word for the 9.2 hectares lush greenery inside the Auburn...

Peacock Gallery

Peacock Gallery

Auburn’s community art gallery might be tiny, but it’s worth a visit when you’re in this quiet, leafy corner of Auburn. The Peacock Gallery is made up of two...

Best sweet treats in Auburn

Real Turkish Delight

Real Turkish Delight

This elegant shop in Auburn is where they make those white boxes of Turkish Delight you see in shops around Sydney. Load up on sweet, sticky squares of...

Mado

Mado

  • price 1 of 4

You could probably stop at the dip plate with some of their spectacular ice cream for dessert if you were feeling derelict but then you’d be missing out...