Turkish Restaurants

When I receive an offer by email from Somer Sivrioglu from Balmain's Efendy restaurant I am giggling with glee. For a tour by one of Sydney's top Turkish chefs to the Turkish rich area of Auburn is like getting a local's tour with an inside track on Turkish cuisine! Auburn is a suburb in Sydney's West with a lot of Turkish and Asian cuisine. Some friends have found it slightly intimidating to go there from the distance to the shops with unfamiliar ingredients but others have revelled in the other worldly atmosphere - not unlike being on a holiday. Auburn is also home of the largest Mosque in Australia so this has meant that the people that live in the area has now changed. It used to be mostly Turkish but now there are people from Africa and Morocco as well as Asia.