Konak Turkish Restaurant

Overall Rating: 5/5. Konak Restaurant in Newtown offers a delightful experience of authentic Turkish cuisine in a cozy setting. The restaurant may be small, but its intimate atmosphere adds to its charm. The staff are incredibly helpful and friendly, ensuring a warm welcome and excellent service throughout the meal. The background music enhances the dining experience, creating a relaxing ambiance. The food itself is top-notch, with dishes bursting with authentic Turkish flavors and prepared with care. Whether you’re a fan of Turkish cuisine or new to it, Konak Restaurant is a must-visit for its delicious food, cozy ambiance, helpful staff, and overall delightful dining experience.

Jaka Utama

Delicious Turkish food. We really enjoyed the mixed mezze platter with pide break, it was very fresh and tasted great. We also really enjoyed Butcher's kofte which was served with chips and rice. The dessert kunefe was also nicely balanced with soft savoury cheese but doused in syrup and balanced with vanilla ice cream. Great for sharing.

Karen C

4.1/5* The Feed Punchers ventured into Newtown to try out ‘Konak’, a traditional Turkish restaurant. The food was tasty, offering a variety of flavours, but the portions were very small, bringing the value down. The mixed Mezze contained a variety of Turkish inspired dips, including; Tzatziki, fava, muhammara, and of course, hummus. Accompanied with freshly baked pide, these dips were perfect. Our favourite component on the mezze came from the spicy capsicum flavours found in the muhammara dip. The Adana kebab was the next endeavour for the punchers - A lamb kebab accompanied by a bed of almond and currents rice, with onions. The lamb carried strong flavours of garlic, cumin and sumac. Cooked to perfection, mouthfuls accompanied with raw onion and rice made us feel as if we were in Turkey. The chicken shish spoke to us through a strong smokey profile. Brought out beside the smokey taste was prominent flavours of paprika, tomato and garlic. Again, accompanied by rice and onion. The lamb shish utilised lamb back-strap, a tender cut of meat which was perfectly complimented by the charcoal method of cooking. This lamb shish harnessed beautiful smoky flavours with paprika, cumin and garlic and was complimented by a citrusy lemon-sumac flavour. The Beyti tasted like a sausage roll with strong Turkish elements. It featured lamb mince intertwined with pistachio and strong tomato-paprika-capsicum flavours. This was rolled in a fried tortilla and served with yoghurt in bite sized pieces. The falafels were very moist, cooked very nicely with a golden herb crust. They paired nicely on the bed of hummus they were served on, topped with a sprinkle of sumac. The Sucuk was a pide which featured; Sausage, egg and mixed cheese. Topped with fresh coriander, it was like a wood fired pizza in taste. Overall, Konak presented the Feed Punchers with a tasty array of Turkish flavours, but fell short in portion sizes. Two little kebab sticks for $34 is offensive.

Feed Punchers

UPDATE: We loved the food last night at Konak, we had Mazze, Manti, Chicken shish and Lamb Pide and all of them were very tasty, I even couldn’t hold myself to take more pics. Will be back soon. PREVIOUS REVIEW: Loved all the dishes that I ordered. Yummy and great service too Recommended

Ahmad Aldaker

Wonderful meal with authentic flavours. Won’t say that I am an expert with Turkish cuisine but this was amazing. Great food, very well priced and just all so delicious. Kids can eat here too as they provide high chairs. My only concern about this place is the narrow steps that go up to the indoor dining area!

Joshua Lee