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Where are you're favorite cheap places to eat?

― Ed, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Dim sum is a current favorite, Harbour City, Gerard Street, Dumplings £1.80, tea 30p. Char Siu Buns, BBQ Pork, over the road 90p. Sushi and Sozai by one of the entrances to moor gate tube is a new friend.

― Ed, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I used to like the Bacon Sandwichs that I got form the cafe next to Labroke House on Highbury Grove. *sigh*

― jel --, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Continental Cafe, Hoe Street, Walthamstow.

― chris, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I really want a bacon sandwich and a jam doughnut now! BUT, can you get such delicious items in the lonesome nothingness of west west London? No!! I hate working so far from decent shops.

― jel --, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Cheapest eats ever = going round and having dinner at your mates' houses. It's totally free! Apart from the bouze.

Even better is going round my mum's for dinner though if my brother's not driving it costs about £15 in train fares. Plus the third degree about my current financial / emotional / physical state which you never get in restaurants. You pays your money etc. etc.

― Emma, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Mmmm jam doughnuts. I want one now TOO! Doughnuts would haf to be Tescos, bacon sammiche well now there's a toughie. Cold ones, now they're easy, but freshly cooked ones? Benjys ones are no doubt made from coloured pus but ARE cheap. It is not however my fave cheap place to eat. That would probably still be Pollo and its KEG WINE cheers cheers! Might try out Eds Dim Sum recommendations though.

― Sarah, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

STOCKPOT restaurants on Kings Rd and might be one in St Christophers Sq, just off Oxford St. Nice simple nosh (cheap too!)

― JB, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Old Compton St, James St (round corner from st christopher's pl), and round back of picadcilly circus between haymarket and wardour st.

― Ed, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

ALso Shalamar Kebab houses, (Brick Lane, New Rd, elsewhere) £1.80 kebab roll in a really tasty fresh naan, saag ghost only £3.30, big 50p samosas

― Ed, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Pollo! On Old Compton street. It may have dodgy aspects but my arse is it cheap. Mmm, cheap red wine. They do a huge plate of antipasta for not a lot.

― alix, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I once got food poisoning from Pollo.

― Andrew L, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Just to move this to New York for a second: there's a place called Dosa Hutt, way the hell out in Flushing, Queens, where they have the best South Indian food I have ever tasted, and you can stuff your belly for about three dollars.

― Douglas, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

white castle, although it takes some time to develop a tolerance of the belly bombs they sell.

― keith, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yeah I bet Andrew L is one of those ponces who washes after going to the loo. I've never had food poisoning from Pollo, then again, I always order the same things. Stractiatella (sp? whatever) and PAPARDELLE PARISIENNE num num. And occasionally, a MILKSHAKE, strawberry!

― Sarah, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Carry on with the NYC (Court Square diner queens, good souvlaki, kebabs, baklava).

I though Dosas were from Gujarat/Maharastra, but that's just semantics. Good cheap Dosas can be had on Drummond street in London.

― Ed, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

and on the Ealing Road in Wembley, mmmm.

The best one (recomended by the Indian lady sat opposite me who lives there) is Sukhoni, a pure vegetarian place, I think I've been there.

― chris, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'll add Pollo too. Maybe they should have a sign in the window "XXX meals since our last food poisoning" just to reassure people. Spaghetti with oil chilli and garlic, cup of tea, NUM! (Why is white tea after chilli/garlic heavy food so v num?)

― Alan Trewartha, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

besides taco bell?

Elotes from the cart vendors in our neighborhood. They take a big ear of fresh roasted corn, scrape the kernals into a cup, add healthy amounts of butter, mayonaisse, and parmesan cheese and then mix it up. You top with salt, chile what have you then NUMM. (i know it sounds kind of gross but it's really good.)

― Samantha, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh, and it's only 2 bucks!

― Samantha, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I've just read 'Fast Food Nation' so you're all going to have a hard time convincing me that any fast food chain constitutes a good cheap eat, apart from In 'n' Out burger, which he though was respectable.

― Ed, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Fast food nation = No Logo for foodies, yes?

― chris, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Pretty much, better written though. I knew the outline already, but the details are pretty horrific. It kinda make me glad we had BSE here seeing as the sort of stuff that goes on in the US meat industry can't go on to the same extent here.

― Ed, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ed, you're forgetting AMBALA SWEET CENTRES (one on Drummond Street, one on Brick Lane, one in Southall) home of the 35p overstuffed veg samosa and the cheapish sweets. Well...d'oh.

Top Nosh cafe under my block of flats does best felafel in London (though Gaby's fans might argue with me) and it's 2.25 and LOADED.

Teriyaki on the passage by Steve's Sounds does good tori kara age (fried chicken bits, in Japanese) for £1.80 for a small bag of five juicy but crispy pieces. The Bun Shop at the end of this passage on Charing Cross Road also does char sui buns for 65p. And if you pace yourself, Kulu Kulu conveyor belt Sushi does the best CB sushi in London.

The Vietnamese caff across the road from Viet Hoa on Kingsland Road is the cheapest and very, very nice.

― suzy, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Those Char Sui buns are no way near as good as the Gerrard st ones, the extra 25p is worth it.

― Ed, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ambala sweet centres are all over London, there's one on Hoe street, another on Leyton High road as well as Ealing Road and I think, Willesden.

― chris, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Cambridge, Mass. folks: does the Chinese food truck still park by the Harvard cyclotron (used to be by the Law School, but they'd moved last time I was there)? I wuz well fed by them folks in my Harvard years, and never over $3.50.

― Colin Meeder, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Q: What is Pete's Eats?

― N., Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Pete's eats is a fantastic little cafe in Llanberis, north Wales. It has a huge selection of veg and non veg tasty's and pint mugs of tea. Just what you need before a good days climbing. See also the Grindleford Station Cafe in Derbyshire.

Similar but for truckers not climbers is Ma Sheperds on the A76 on the Scottish Border.

― Ed, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Fast Food Nation is very good. It IS less irritating stylistically than No Logo, = it is more straight-forward with the facts (which are horrific). The author did a piece for The Atlantic recently too.

― Alan Trewartha, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Have you been to the cafe in Hope Ed? really smart for baked beans on doorsteps and big mugs of tea.

― chris, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

CripesX0r!!! i am going to Cambridge this weekend and had almost forgotten GARDIES... the finest purveyor of Greek nosh (well, chips in pitta with hoummous, heheh) EVAH!! they do do proper food like chick peas and aubergines and ace veggie burgers as well... everything about £2 though i reckon it will have gone up in the 3 years or so since i've eaten there! they also give you PICKLED CHILIS with your chips if you ask nicely, and take a photo of you to put in the window with all the other piccies of satisfied Gardies customers... mmmm....

― katie, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hope, no, unfortunately, I'll seek it out next time I'm up, there's always the one on to of outside, Hathersage too, whilst we're at it.

― Ed, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I love Hathersage, it's a lovely place. I was always surprised that we could never find a decent place like those mentioned on Castleton though.

― chris, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hathersage is posher, its more of a Sheffield commuter village than castleton. Castleton's got the cement works.

― Ed, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

and it's the most hellish place in the Peak district on a Sunday afternoon as well.

― chris, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Gardenias in Rose Crescent? ho ho. still going strong, eh?

― Alan Trewartha, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Alang - AYE. well i hope so anyway as i intend to eat an ENORMOUS chip butty before heading off to the College bar.

― katie, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Zee trashcan around the corner from Macoh Donaldo. That or those revolving sushi bars in Tokyo. Yummy and cheapoh.

― nathalie, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The godlike Wahoo's Fish Tacos chain, which has a spot right on the way home from work for me. One spicy fish taco, lots of black beans, lots of rice, salsa, beer or soft drink = $4.85. Sweet.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

There is such a thing as a fish taco? And it's good?

― Kim, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh, it's wonderful, my friends. Go here for official Wahoo's flackery.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Wahoo's fish tacos rule. I don't know if I consider truly cheap, but it's not a lot, and it's like heaven to me. Blackened fish w/ side of rice and black beans. Great call Ned.

― Hunter, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I do try.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I want some of that, NOW!

― chris, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

gardies was certainly going strong last time i was in cambridge (= a month or so ago). and still cheap. alan - surely you didn't actually refer to it as "gardenias", did you??

― toby, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Last night, I dreamt of fish tacos. I hope you're happy Ned.

― Kim, Saturday, 23 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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