Peperstraat 23-25, +31 20 779 7450, restaurantgreetje.nl, mains around €25. Open Tues-Fri, Sun 6pm-10pm, Sat 6pm-11pm Off the beaten track, this fish restaurant is something of an Amsterdam institution, despite its location by an out-of-town roundabout, next to the RAI convention centre.
The designer also seeks to challenge a world still using 50s techniques, where a dress takes weeks to make and an atelier's petite mains, or seamstresses, slave over sequins.
The Drinking Water Inspectorate regulates mains water (99.97% of samples pass the strict standards) while local authorities watch over bottled water plants.
The 300m pipeline, a few centimetres wide and buried just below the surface, carries water to the entire community from an illicit connection to the mains, created almost a decade ago by a sympathetic employee at Sabesp, the water board.
Ghana's power failures pale in comparison to Nigeria, where Lagossians say that if they have four hours of continuous mains electricity, then it is a good day.
Most families also discovered that turning off all those appliances that sat there on standby mode all day also made a difference to daily energy use – and for many of them, it's already become second nature to turn their appliances off at the mains, to avoid having things on stand by unnecessarily.
Amstelveenseweg 158-160, +31 20 675 5000, restaurantblauw.nl, mains around €25. Open Mon-Thurs 6pm-10.30pm, Fri 6pm-11pm, Sat 5pm-11pm, Sun 5pm-10.30pm Vicky Hampton is the Amsterdam Foodie.
For hungrier diners, there is a regular menu of starters and mains involving some excellent ingredients typical of northern Spain, including the delicious, if expensive, pata negra ham.
Hugo de Grootplein 7, 9-11, +31 20 486 8408, razmataz.nl, mains around €20. Open Mon-Thurs 8.30am-1am 8.30am-1amm-3am, Sat 9am-3am, Sun 9am-1am District V comes into its own on a warm summer's evening, when its terrace Frils the entire south-east corner of a leafy square in the south of De Pijp.
The zoo is also spending £5,000 installing a "voltage optimisation unit" to reduce the mains voltage of 240v down to 220v to help prevent any needless waste of electricity.
For mains, an appropriately seasonal roast goose, accompanied by a crisp croquet of leg meat and doused in softly flavoured blackberry jus, is a sumptuous treat.
