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Best Middle Eastern food near Lidcombe, Auburn, New South Wales
Find out what Middle Eastern restaurants to try in Lidcombe including Khaybar Restaurant, New Star Kebab Family Restaurant, Jasmin1, Darband Restaurant, Kismet Cafe Auburn, Mina Bakery, Cook & Co Casual Dining, Auburn Kebab House, Kabul Restaurant + Bakery, Sahra By The River
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10. Sahra By The River
Overall Ratings
4 based on 186 reviews
Reviewed By marquef59
We had a group of people on Saturday night. Banquet menus are fantastic and very generous proportions.....more than we could eat. The staff were friendly and bent over backwards to meet out dietary requirements. The wine list is extensive. This restaurant will become a regular.Hi Marquef59, Thank you for your review. We are so happy that you loved your Sahra By The River experience. The banquets are a fantastic menu choice! At Sahra By The River we pride ourselves on offering great Lebanese cuisine and making sure there is something everyone can enjoy! We look forward to seeing you again in the near future!
9. Kabul Restaurant + Bakery
Overall Ratings
3 based on 17 reviews
Reviewed By asthatte
most popular ,authentic,truely,best ingradients,excellent taste,cooked fresh and gently Afghani cuisine.all dishes are mouth watering and very tasty.it is open till late night.the food prepared with lot of care for freshness and taste.such fine dishes are not available else where.visit to Australia for non-veg lovers is not complete unless this nice afghani restaurant food is tatsed.spacious place for moderate group.adjoining backery is always full of customers and all items are in good demand
8. Auburn Kebab House
Reviewed By funkm0ti0n
An oldie and still doing pretty well! A splash of new colours and slight remodel has made this Kebab joint screaming out that it will serve you a decent Kebab. I have been going to this place for over 10 years and not much has changed.. Due to high turn over you will get freshly cooked Doners (even though Doner here simply means Beef, usually it is just rotating roasting meat of any kind) Chicken Shish was tasty and apart from slightly dry I can't fault it too much. Adana I feel was a step up from how they prepared it previously, it was more tasty that I recalled and again apart from being slightly dry I can't fault it on flavour. The Spinach pide while freshly made was dumbed down.. a little too much mozzarella that would make any self respecting Turk cringe, adding insult to injury where was the egg? The Pide in its form was tasty don't get me wrong but just not how it was intend to be. Dips that came with the meal were also pedestrian that I am not going to bother explaining... I came to this place expecting a decent solid feed of Kebab and that's generally what I got. Would I go back, you bet! In the crowd of Kebab stores this one still manages to be up there.
7. Cook & Co Casual Dining
Our menu consists of the flavours of many cultures, which is unique to the backdrop of Auburn. Our restaurant has a casual, and family friendly dining atmosphere, yet is also appropriate for functions and events. Our affordable menu, which includes a wide
Reviewed By kryptokamz
This is quite a unique restaurant hidden between two streets next to the council communtiy centre. It offers turkish/middle eastern cuisine and has a fantastic breakfast menu. A good variety of choice for dinner including wood fire pizzas. They have a wide Selection of cakes and the owner Ersan is very friendly and makes lovely coffee. We like to visit with family and friends, and given Parking is a nightmare in Auburn, it is has free Parking in the multi Level council car park.
6. Mina Bakery
Overall Ratings
5 based on 10 reviews
Reviewed By Travelfan123456
This is one of my favourite place if I need to grab a quick pizza. They offer traditional middle eastern style fast food type items as well. During day time (especially in morning) they make Oregano with Zatar, so lovely and fresh. Prices are also so reasonable. All their meat/chicken Pizza is Halal. They also have vegetarian options as well. Location very convenient, right opposite Auburn train station.
5. Kismet Cafe Auburn
Reviewed By LadyMDarcy
The food is well prepared and best described as 'homely' with a modern cafe style finishing. Though the food is slightly priced higher than other local cafes, the quality of the food surpasses value for money. Definitely a cafe that looks at quality over quantity and makes you full but not in that unhealthy-overeaten feeling you get at fast food outlets. I'd recommend their freshly squeezed juices and brekkie menu! The atmosphere is quiet (other than the hoons along Auburn Road making a racket with their car exhausts) and the furnishings are quite urbanized and has a hipster look to it, with wooden panel tables and a wooden finishing to the front cabinet (which I was told was from recycled train track wood). The cafe is small however when I was there it got filled quickly with families and local workers having lunch. The service was good and I felt taken care of with meals prepared on time and coffee was also nice (compared to other coffee retails around Auburn). As I am on a diet there were a few things on the menu that I had to resist temptation from such as the waffles and the sweets in the display. I would recommend this place, even for dessert after having a kebab down the road, or even for lunch/dinner/dessert. Will definitely be returning!
4. Darband Restaurant
Overall Ratings
4 based on 22 reviews
Reviewed By DrTravell007
I had the mixed kebab, one koobideh and one chicken. The food was pretty good and the service fast enough.The place was full and they still managed to bring our good within 30 minutes. They had salad and yoghurt with the food. I would add a bit of herbs and fresh bread. The bread was pita bread which is not the best.
3. Jasmin1
Overall Ratings
4 based on 79 reviews
Reviewed By amiri455
This is one of the places that you should not miss if are really interested in authentic Lebanese food. Everything tastes like heaven. Staff are so friendly and the food is served with minimum delay.We went for mixed plates, trying kebabs, hummus, baba ghanoush and other authentic meals. So good. All well cooked and tasty. The spices they use are amazing. The cinamon tea at the end, is a bless.Don't forget it is not a find dinning or a very classy restaurant. It is a heaven for food lovers.
2. New Star Kebab Family Restaurant
Overall Ratings
4 based on 55 reviews
Reviewed By Jackie M
(4.5 stars)Itâs Friday night and Auburn is teeming with people. This Western Sydney suburb has a lot more high-rise than I remember from nigh on thirty years ago, and the cultural diversity is wider with Chinese, Turkish, Lebanese, Nepalese and Indian ancestry making up the suburb's top five. Weathering both the upwards growth and the cultural shift, New Star Kebab Family Restaurant has been serving the good people of Auburn for forty years. âIn the past forty years, we have become part of Australian cuisine,â owner Atilla Tok explains. The multicultural crowd dining at his busy restaurant are testament to the fact that eating kebab is now as Australian as the ANZAC biscuit.Tok immigrated to Australia 27 years ago, taking over the helm of this popular Turkish kebab shop in 2000, nearly twenty years ago. The menu has stayed the same throughout his tenure, with ninety percent of the food made right in front of your eyes (basically everything bar for the salads). His all-male service team are plentiful in number and friendly in attitude, ready to get this Friday night rolling.Demanding your attention even more loudly than the storeâs primary coloured neon, is the mouthwatering aroma of charcoal cooking. Itâs emanating from a glass booth where a smiling young lad expertly maneuvers kebabs over smoking hot coals using bread rather than tongs. Watching the bread picking up all the meaty juices, Iâm pleased to see it make its way onto the Mixed Shish Plate ($27) along with your choice of three different kebab â chicken, lamb and adana.Dining with a group in the outdoor plastic tent that expands the kebab shopâs seating to about a hundred, weâre treated to some fancier plating that sees three mixed plates worth of kebabs arranged in the round with salads, rice and well-charred tomatoes. The produce is top notch, from the premium quality meats, all the way to the non-floury tomatoes, helped no doubt by the fact that Tok is his own providore via second business, Fresh Cut Australia. He runs this in his down time from New Star Kebab, a business thatâs open seven days a week from 7am until 1am.Picked up in still-warm Turkish bread, the hunks of lamb back strap and leg meat are tender and delicious. The chicken kebab is moist and well-charred, perfect against Turkish yoghurt garlic dip, a gentler sauce than the Lebanese toum you might be used to.Roasted chilli sauce and the orange chilli dip in the platter of Mixed Dips ($10) keeps things lively as we mow our way through the meats, cooling our mouths on mugs of house-made Lemonade ($3). Made with lemons, sugar and water, it's lovely and sour, but not as sour as the purple cabbage salad. Tok points out this is an anomoly - someone in his forty-strong staff added too much lemon juice today. Personally I find it great as a palate reset as I move between the sumac, cumin and pepper-seasoned adana kofte and the shish plate's other items.Fine curls of doner kebab meat join a mix of bread, tomato-based sauce and yoghurt, for New Starâs Iskender Kebab ($18), which is then baked in the oven. Here this dish is slightly modified from the Turkish original, which would normally see cold yoghurt added to the hot plate after cooking. Tok explains that his Australian audience wasnât that keen on the hot-meets-cold sensation.While New Star Kebab do make traditional pizzas, theyâre listed way down the back end of the menu board for a reason â you should be eating Turkish pide instead! Opt-in for egg on the Ispanakli Pide ($21/large) with mozzarella, fresh spinach and fetta, it elevates this crisp, fresh pide into a satisfying, thing of beauty against a moderate squeeze of lemon.Kiymali Pide ($21) is given a fresh-parsley hit against ground lamb, onion, tomato and vegetables, and eats much lighter than other versions of this dish Iâve tried. I quite liked it against the babaganush dip, made here using baked rather than char-grilled eggplants, giving it a stronger eggplant flavour.Setting New Starâs gozleme apart from the ubiquitous market stall ones youâll find just about everywhere, is a team of older Turkish ladies who roll the dough out bigger and thinner than is possible to achieve in a market setting. The resulting Ispanakli Gozleme ($10) is wonderful, with crisp English spinach wrapped inside thin flaky pastry that's turned golden on the grill.Tokâs philosophy of using good quality produce and not cutting corners sets New Star Kebab apart from other Turkish kebab restaurants I have visited. With a constant flow of people that continues throughout my meal, itâs pretty clear New Star doesnât need reviews like this one to popularise their business, but I felt compelled to tell you about it regardless.
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1. Khaybar Restaurant
Overall Ratings
4 based on 34 reviews
Reviewed By Polley01
I had never eaten Afghani food before. I always assumed it was like Lebanese food. It isn't like Lebanese food it's more lightly flavoured but still very aromatic. I liked the meat dumplings, the lamb shanks and the skewers all of which have other names but I can't remember them. I wanted to take photos of the food. it totally forgot so I posted the empty plates because we loved the food.there wasn't any lefts I have posted our squeaky clean plates and dessert. We will be back. Mustafa gave us a history lesson on Kabul and Afghanistan.
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