Cafes with outdoor seating in Auburn

Cafes with outdoor seating in Auburn, ranked

1. #1NBA Grounds Cafe & training academy for a weekday coffee

   $Outdoor seating🌳 Auburn Memorial Park, 2 min walk

   NBA Grounds Cafe & training academy is a small cafe on Civic Rd that opens from 6am on weekdays. Order a Turkish coffee or the baklava toastie. Reviewers say the coffee is consistently good, and they describe the service as friendly and welcoming. The room is cosy and calm, with outdoor tables. From those tables, Auburn Memorial Park is only two minutes on foot, so a coffee outside can turn into a short stroll.

   Best for: Morning coffee on outdoor tables

2. #2Morning Owl for a weekend breakfast or brunch

   $$Outdoor seating🌳 RAAF Site Park 1, 4 min walk

   Morning Owl is on George Young Street and opens at 8am on Saturdays and Sundays, and at 7am on weekdays. The Big Owl Breakfast is a hearty plate with runny yolks, and the brioche French toast with passionfruit cream is the sweet option. Coffee drinkers praise the coffee, and one ordered a long black and a flat white. There is a kids' menu and outdoor seating. RAAF Site Park 1 lies four minutes on foot from the door.

   Best for: Breakfast and brunch with the family

3. #3Ottoman Haus cafe for a slow Turkish breakfast

   $$Outdoor seating🌳 Auburn Memorial Park, 6 min walk

   Find Ottoman Haus cafe on Auburn Road, where breakfast, brunch and lunch are all served. A shared breakfast platter arrives with menemen, feta, olives, sausage, bread and orange slices. Gozleme is the dish to order: thin, folded, filled with greens, with lemon on the side. Diners say the staff are polite and the room is clean. A six-minute stroll takes you from here to Auburn Memorial Park, handy after a long meal.

   Best for: Turkish food to share over a long breakfast

4. #4Cafe Bodrum for Turkish coffee and cake

   $Outdoor seating🌳 Auburn Memorial Park, 3 min walk

   Cafe Bodrum is on Mary Street, with a terrace out front. It opens at 6am on weekdays and Saturdays, and at 7am on Sundays. Coffee drinkers call it great, and one picks out the Turkish coffee. The cake counter has an orange poppy seed cake, and the menu also has vegetarian dishes. A quick walk of about three minutes gets you to the grass at Auburn Memorial Park.

   Best for: Turkish coffee and a cake stop

5. #5Turkuaz cafe for Turkish coffee with a dog

   $🐕 Dogs outsideOutdoor seating🌳 Auburn Memorial Park, 3 min walk

   Turkuaz cafe is on Queen Street and opens from 8am to 4pm on weekdays and Saturdays. Order the Turkish coffee, served in a small cup with a glass of water and Turkish delight, or the lentil soup with warm bread. Dogs can sit at the outdoor tables, and little eaters have their own menu. Guests praise the owners, a husband and wife pair who run the counter. Three minutes on foot takes you to Auburn Memorial Park from here.

   Best for: Turkish coffee with a dog on the outdoor tables

6. #6The Rose Garden for a break from shopping

   $$🐕 Dogs outsideOutdoor seating🌳 Auburn Park, 6 min walk

   The Rose Garden sits inside the Harvey Norman Flagship store on Parramatta Road. It opens at 8:30am on weekdays and Sundays, and closes at 3:30pm on Saturdays. Toby's Estate coffee is served beside a cabinet of doughnuts, cupcakes, muffins and lamingtons. Diners describe the portions as generous and the food as well presented. Dogs have a spot outside, and Auburn Park sits six minutes on foot from the store.

   Best for: A relaxed brunch between shopping

7. #7Oliver Brown Auburn Central Shopping Centre for chocolate between shops

   $Outdoor seating🌳 Auburn Memorial Park, 2 min walk

   Oliver Brown Auburn Central Shopping Centre is a Belgian chocolate cafe inside Auburn Central. It opens at 6:30am on weekdays and 7am at weekends, and stays open until 10:30pm on weekdays and 11pm at weekends. Order the chocolate Belgian waffle or an iced matcha, and there is a kids' menu. Customers praise the staff for being friendly and attentive, even at busy times. Some orders have gone astray, with a drink forgotten or swapped, according to two reviewers. Auburn Memorial Park is a stone's throw away, two minutes on foot.

   Best for: Chocolate treats and a catch-up at a table

8. #8Starbucks Auburn for early coffee and a place to work

   $Outdoor seating

   Starbucks Auburn, on Parramatta Road, opens at 5am daily and closes at 10pm. Early commuters fill the counter, and visitors find the coffee well made and steady. The seating is comfortable enough for working or studying with a laptop. One reviewer recommends the Cheese & Tomato Toastie for savoury food and the Pain au Chocolat for something sweet. The cold drinks list includes an iced matcha, and the staff keep the queue moving.

   Best for: Early coffee before work

Compare cafes with outdoor seating in Auburn

The table below compares these cafes on price, brunch, outdoor tables, dogs and weekend hours.

How we picked cafes with outdoor seating in Auburn

Cafes are ordered by how well-liked they are, weighted by how many people left feedback, so a cafe with many comments outranks one with few. We then checked this page's topic: outdoor seating, whether dogs can sit outside, and the walk to the nearest park. The food and coffee notes draw on what each cafe offers and what visitors wrote. Only cafes with outdoor seating qualified.