The best place in town to have lunch. The sheer quantity of quality lunch options at this part-canteen, part-restaurant is staggering. There's pizza by the slice, healthy bowls of grains or salads, freshly carved rotisserie chicken and much more.

Beer, boilermakers and barbeque – plus 40 beers on tap.

Traditional northern-Chinese food such as rou jia mo, which here are twice the size of your hand.

Nasi Goreng, bakmi and flat whites.

One of the best burgers in Sydney has a location smack-dab in the middle of the city. And the entire all-day menu can be made vegan.

Hearty Indonesian dishes, served to you quickly.

Sydney's other favourite burger is also an excellent lunch choice.

If you manage to get a spot at this icon (queues can be hectic), you'll be rewarded with some of the best har mee (prawn noodle soup) in Sydney.

This place is virtually synonymous with the term business lunch. It's where Sydney's movers and shakers have dined for two decades, and it isn't likely to change soon.

There's a $25 lunch deal which runs from Monday to Thursday. Past dishes on the menu have included minute steak, squid ink spaghetti and chicken cotoletta.

Try a pizza from the extended range here, or one of the generous bowls of pasta.

Inventive dishes from the team behind Chat Thai.

Choose from a home-style menu of Italian classics, from a menu which changes daily.

The dim sum – fried or steamed – here are available at lunch exclusively (they only appear on platters at dinner).

This is still one of the best places in the city for lunchtime dumplings.