Yours - your choice from a wealth of toppings @ Pizzarova Cfrate
Street food trader Pizzarova serves up a selection of pizzas from an old shipping container converted into a kitchen. Start with a base Margherita, and wither choose their choice of toppings or your own. Pizzas cost no more than £10 so they are well worth the money. The sourdough base is light, airy and chewy, the toppings are plentiful and there's even space to sit outside with a river view.

Passadis del Pep @ Passadis del Pep
Dinner at Passadís is always a surprise. There is no street sign for the restaurant, just a number, under which opens a door that leads to a dark corridor (Passadís means corridor, after all!). Wander to the end and you'll be led to an utterly unique restaurant in which there is no menu: you simply sit down and wait for the stream of food to be brought to you. Eat until you are about to explode and they'll ask you: "So, what would you like as main course?" And they are serious! The mountain of dishes you have just devoured were starters; tapas and entrées (lots of them!). You are then supposed to order a piece of meat or fresh fish that will be cooked to order (although you can skip it and go straight to desert and coffee if you prefer), so maybe save space. The restaurant is owned by Joan Manubens, brother of the famous Pep, from Cal Pep just one block away. The restaurant was in fact named by the brother, who encouraged Joan to open his own venue. The food is similar in both restaurants, but in Passadís it is more elaborate and there is a far better wine list on offer. The meal is more relaxed as well, being a sit down restaurant, rather than bar stool set-up as is in Cal Pep. But it's hard to pick one special recommendation, as the available dishes vary from day to day depending on what is fresh

Double Cheeseburger @ Mary's City
Mary's CBD is pretty much a hole-in-the-wall eatery with no seating and primarily set up for takeaways rather than in house dining. Burgers are the order of the day here and I'd suggest going for the Double Cheeseburger ($16). A Pillow-soft bun with two thin patties that work in harmony with the melted cheese, to provide a yummy balance of meat and cheese. It's not a big burger but I find it's a great one that can stand up to all others in Sydney. It got the stamp of approval from Jeffrey Merrihue when he visited the city.

Pizza  @ La Perla Restaurant
Numerous Italian restaurants operate in the center of Amsterdam’s Jordaan area, referred to as “Little Italy.” But for traditional pizza, aficionados crowd the inside and outside seating at this delicious pizzeria. La Perla imports fresh produce from Italy every week, including genuine buffalo mozzarella. Orders are not taken over the phone, as each pizza is delivered bubbling hot from the large, wood fueled brick oven. Foodsters recommend the Calabrese di Spilinga with spicy Nduja salame and the Bianca with prosciutto and arugula. The café also serves pasta, sandwiches, an interesting wine menu and wines by the glass.

Basque Pintxos  @ La Oliva Pintxos Y Vinos
At La Oliva, you won’t find traditional tapas but rather pintxos, the Basque country’s answer to tapas, generally involving a bread base and a small wooden skewer. Pintxos fans pack the long wooden benches at this modern wine bar to dine on an extensive selection of Northern Spanish-style tapas, each complimented with a carefully chosen Spanish wine.

Oysters in Ginger  @ A-Fusion Food & Drinks
Awarded a Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand for good quality and good value cooking, fans head to this Chinese/Japanese restaurant in the heart of Amsterdam’s Chinatown for amazing sushi and dim sum. This restaurant boasts a grill, sushi bar, dim sum and wok kitchen. Do not miss the oysters with ginger. There is something powerfully evocative in sipping the sweet-salty-sharp ginger broth from the shells before squeezing the steamed sensation of sea between tongue and teeth.

Brunch @ Little Collins
This Amsterdam bar and restaurant is a tribute to the owners’ home city, Melbourne, and the many things they love to eat and drink. The brunch menu is available Wednesday to Sunday and the dinner menu, available Thursday and Friday, is a mouth-watering selection of contemporary foods from around the globe. For the best international brunch options, hungry customers head to Little Collins. Don’t miss their Rhubarb Bellini as an aperitif while you wait!

Lobster Sausage  @ Worst Wijncafé
Worst Wijncafé is named for its sausage-skewed tapas dishes (veal tongue white sausage, chorizo and its famous lobster sausage). This checkerboard-tiled wine bar is the casual sibling of esteemed restaurant Marius next door. The menu features a dozen or so dishes, all of which are small and meant for sharing. There's a fantastic range of mostly French wines by the glass. Sunday brunch is a local event.

Pork Ramen  @ Le Fou Fow
Formerly a pop-up at my favorite Asian supermarket, Dun Yong, it now has a permanent location on the Elandsgracht. Le Fou Fow serves mostly ramen: steaming bowls of noodle soup in three sizes, with various bases to their broths. The pork broth is served with (you guessed it) more pork, noodles (the slightly flat variety with a good bite), various types of seaweed and half a boiled egg (which was amazing in a Heston Blumenthal slow-cooked sort of way). You will love every spoonful.

Pastrami, Cheese and Sauerkraut Sandwich  @ Café Restaurant Piet de Gruyter
In 2011, Piet de Gruyter transformed an old grocery building into a café-restaurant on Van Limburg Stirumplein to serve up such heavenly dishes as this mighty creation stuffed with pastrami, sauerkraut, melted cheese and a smattering of lettuce and gherkins. Presented warm but not hot, it’s the perfect combination of salty and tangy, textured and soft.