Sydney's favourite local takeaway lunches

BL Burgers is situated on a busy stretch of Oxford Street. It's a long space decorated with colourful graffiti, and there's a slide at the side, leading from the upstairs kitchen into the dining area, that they sometime shoot burgers down. There are six burgers plus a special on offer, and while you could have a cheeseburger, these guys are known for their riffs on the classics.  Try the Blame Canada instead. It's a thick beef patty topped with maple-glazed bacon, cheese, poutine and maple aioli. There's a lot in there so you probably won't be able to tell the elements apart. But this is a bloody good, if indulgent, burger.

This Newtown pie shop is nothing like your usual neighbourhood pie-hawker. For starters, you can grab a seat at a communal table in the industrial-chic shop and have a glass of wine with your pire, or down some Wayward's beer. Pies range from your usual steak and ale to exotic numbers involving Nepalese curries and boscaiola. They’ve got Marrickville’s Double Roasters coffee available all day, plus milkshakes from vanilla to chocolate and caramel. Need something sweet? Order a slice of the maltesers pie, or the cherry ripe delight – all of their pies are baked fresh on the day.

When it comes to the handheld lunch, banh mi is king. Oddly enough Chatswood has been without a great pâté-spiked roast meat roll spot for years now. Saigon Rolls have arrived to eradicate this problem. Get the pork with crackling – it's a little more indulgent that your typical roll with loud, crunchy pork crackles, sweet pickled carrots and lean-to-fatty strips of pork. The pâté is salty and savoury but not overpowering and you should ask for extra chilli if you want extra kick. Not so hungry? Go for the mini, which is only $5.30, or if you want to go breadless try the summer noodle bowl.

This little Market Lane kitchen is doing just two things damn well; poke bowls (the Hawaiian fish salad) and momos (Nepalese dumplings). It may sound like an odd combo, but somehow Nepalese-Japanese-Hawaiian-via-the-Northern Beaches works an absolute treat. Order up a hearty bowl filled with bright green edamame, violet cabbage, soft hunks of ultra-fresh salmon and shreds of orange carrot, topped with sweet toasted sesame dressing and fried shallots for crunch. It’s nourishing, fresh and filling, and maybe the best poke bowl we’ve had in Sydney. Also try the dumplings, which see pudgy pockets filled with lentils, pork or lamb, and come swimming in a paprika butter spiked broth.

The little CBD sister of the Surry Hills roaster has been doing ripper coffees since opening just north of Town Hall in early 2015. Service is friendly and never snobby, you can buy your own beans and the takeaway brekkies are ace. Go the healthy route and try an on-the-go boxed breakfast with poached eggs, sweet potato hummus and roast cauliflower topped with a dust of hazelnut dukkah and sprigs of coriander. Or choose one of the NLTs (next level toasties), including the classic Croque Monsieur, with smoked ham, a cheddar-infused creamy béchamel and pickled veg for freshness.