Public BBQ areas in Sydney
728 public barbecues are mapped in Sydney. 518 of them sit in 304 named parks — here they are, biggest first.
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| Lane Cove National Park | 27 grills | Fuel: electric, gas, wood · 11 covered · 1 free to use | Open in maps |
| Plough and Harrow | 12 grills | Fuel: electric | Open in maps |
| Western Sydney Regional Park | 10 grills | Fuel: electric · 1 covered | Open in maps |
| Bicentennial Park | 8 grills | Fuel: electric · 4 covered | Open in maps |
| Wangal Park | 7 grills | Fuel: electric · 7 covered | Open in maps |
| Centennial Park | 6 grills | 1 covered | Open in maps |
| Commemoration Flat | 5 grills | Open in maps | |
| Ku-ring-gai Wildflower Garden | 5 grills | Fuel: electric · 1 free to use | Open in maps |
| Mount Annan Botanic Garden | 5 grills | Fuel: gas | Open in maps |
| Western Sydney Parklands | 5 grills | Fuel: electric | Open in maps |
| Blaxland Riverside Park | 4 grills | Open in maps | |
| Como Pleasure Grounds | 4 grills | Fuel: electric · 4 covered | Open in maps |
| Curry Reserve | 4 grills | 3 covered · 3 free to use · 2 step-free | Open in maps |
| Manly Dam Picnic Area | 4 grills | 3 covered | Open in maps |
| Moore Reserve | 4 grills | Fuel: electric | Open in maps |
| Rouse Hill Regional Park | 4 grills | 1 covered | Open in maps |
| Bilarong Reserve | 3 grills | Fuel: electric · 2 covered | Open in maps |
| Bonnie Vale Picnic Area | 3 grills | Fuel: electric · 2 covered | Open in maps |
| Bundock Park | 3 grills | 1 covered | Open in maps |
| Carss Bush Park | 3 grills | Fuel: electric | Open in maps |
| Central Gardens Nature Reserve | 3 grills | Open in maps | |
| Dr Darragh Park | 3 grills | Open in maps | |
| Eric Primrose Reserve | 3 grills | 2 covered | Open in maps |
| Fagan Park | 3 grills | Fuel: electric · 2 covered | Open in maps |
| Freshwater Beach Reserve | 3 grills | Fuel: electric · 1 covered | Open in maps |
| Gough Whitlam Park | 3 grills | Open in maps | |
| Ismay Reserve | 3 grills | Fuel: electric | Open in maps |
| Lake Parramatta Reserve | 3 grills | Fuel: gas · 3 covered | Open in maps |
| Marsden Park | 3 grills | Fuel: electric | Open in maps |
| Mary O'Brien Reserve | 3 grills | Open in maps | |
| Mindarie Park | 3 grills | 3 covered | Open in maps |
| Muston Park | 3 grills | Fuel: electric · 2 covered | Open in maps |
| Parramatta Park | 3 grills | 1 covered | Open in maps |
| Pirrama Park | 3 grills | Open in maps | |
| Regatta Park | 3 grills | Open in maps | |
| Richard Murden Reserve | 3 grills | 3 covered | Open in maps |
| Spit West Reserve | 3 grills | Open in maps | |
| Steel Park | 3 grills | Open in maps | |
| Sutherland Shire Centenary Park | 3 grills | Open in maps | |
| Sydney Park | 3 grills | Fuel: electric · 1 covered | Open in maps |
264 more places not listed here.
A further 210 are mapped outside any named park — along foreshores, on reserves and in places OpenStreetMap has not named. They are counted in the total above but cannot be listed by name.
Australian park barbecues are almost always free electric hotplates on a stand, worked by a push button that runs the plate for fifteen or twenty minutes at a time. You bring food, oil and something to scrape with; you bring no fuel at all.
The plate is shared and it is rarely clean. Regulars arrive with a scraper and a bottle of oil, heat the plate empty for five minutes, scrape it down and only then start cooking — which is also the fastest way to avoid whatever the last group cooked.
Weekend mornings go early at the popular reserves. Most councils do not take bookings for individual plates, so a table near one is first come, first served.
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Data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database Licence (ODbL). Facilities change; check locally before you plan a meal around one. openstreetmap.org/copyright · 728 of them are mapped in OpenStreetMap as of 2026-08-21.