Utrecht

Bigoli
Schoutenstraat 12
€3-5

Serves delicious italian sandwiches. Be prepared to wait in line at lunch time though.

Cafe 't College
Mariastraat
030 2319136
main: €14
mo: 10am-7pm,tu-th:10am-01am,fr-sa: 10am-2pm,su 12am-7pm
Close to the dom

Cozy jazz-blues restaurant with good simple food: steaks, salads, sate. The kitchen closes at 9pm, but you can get bitterballen, spring rolls, etc. after that.

ACU
Voorstraat 71

In this squatters cafe cheap vegan food is served on tuesdays, wednesdays, thursdays and sundays.

Mario
Oudegracht 130-132
€3

This place sells Italian rolls in Utrecht, simply called Broodje Mario. They are famous among people from Utrecht; there's even a rap song about it by the local band Stropstrikkers.

Indonesia Asli
Biltstraat 56-58
€7-11
mo-sa 12-20

Authentic ie, spicy Indonesian restaurant and take-away.

De Oude Muntkelder
Oude Gracht a/d Werf 112
+31 30 231-6773
€10-15
12:00-21:00 daily

Traditional Dutch pancake restaurant. They have a lovely setting beside the small canal. They have a wide varieties of pancakes, even quirky ones like the Norwegian pancake. On Mondays and Tuesdays all-you-can-eat pancakes for students for only €9.75.

El Greco
Ganzenmarkt 28

This greek snackbar serves some of the best pita gyros sandwiches in Utrecht.

Stadskasteel Oudaen (http://www.oudaen.nl/), at Oudegracht 99, is a 13th century city castle turned restaurant.

There are several Flemish snack bars outside of Hoog Catharijne that sell wonderful thick fries with mayonnaise. Try it; it’s not as bad as John Travolta’s character seems to think in Pulp Fiction.