Chatham Square Restaurant – Chinese (Dim Sum), Chinatown

Chatham Square Restaurant 6 Chatham Sq (212) 587-8800 Pricing:Cheap Venue: Sit Down Cuisine: Chinese, Dim Sum Favorite Dish(es): Steamed shrimp rolls, Crystal Shrimp Dumplings, BBQ Pork Buns Lately we’ve been on a dim sum streak. It’s the ultimate recession meal plan.  As mentioned in our previous dim sum posts, we’re usually too lazy (and hungry) [...]

Jing Fong Dim Sum Restaurant

Jing Fong Dim Sum Restaurant 5 E Broadway, between Catherine St and Chatham Sq (212) 732-0797 Pricing: Cheap Venue: Sit Down Cuisine: Chinese, Dim Sum Favorite Dish(es): Steamed Rice Rolls w/ Shrimp $4.95, Steamed Chive & Shrimp Dumplings $4.95, Turnip Cakes $4.95 Jing Fong is a huge restaurant with a flagship restaurant in China, with [...]

Viet-Nam Banh Mi So – Vietnamese (Sandwich Shop), Little Italy (Chinatown)

Viet-Nam Banh Mi So 369 Broome Street (between Elizabeth St & Mott St) (212) 219-8341 Located on the fringes of Chinatown on the Little Italy side, this is a tiny deli specializing in Banh Mi, an extraordinary Vietnamese sandwich quickly rising in popularity across the city, with good reason. It takes classic elements of Vietnamese [...]

Shanghai Gourmet – Chinese, Chinatown

100 Mott Street, between Canal and Hester Sts (212) 966-3988‎ Pricing: Cheap Venue: Sit Down Cuisine: Chinese Favorite Dish(es): Crab and Pork Soup Dumplings ($8.95), Spicy Beef Stew Noodle Soup ($8.95) This is a pretty cheap and clean place on the Soho side of Canal that has pretty much everything Chinatown has to offer, from [...]

Bayan Cafe – Filipino, Midtown East

Bayan Cafe 212 E 45th St, between 2nd and 3rd Aves (212) 450-8260 Pricing: Cheap Venue: Sit Down / Take Out Cuisine: Filipino Favorite Dish(es): Chicken Adobo ($11.95), Lumpia Shanghai ($8.95) For our first introduction to Filipino cuisine, Bayan Cafe definitely made a good impression. It’s more of a take-out spot than a real restaurant, [...]

Shake Shack – Burgers, Upper West Side

Shake Shack 366 Columbus Ave at 77th St Pricing: Cheap Venue: Sit Down / Take Out Cuisine: Burger Joint Favorite Dish(es): Strawberry Milkshake ($5.25), French Fries ($2.75) People have been waiting for the opening of the new uptown Shake Shack for, well… as long as they typically wait in line at the original location in [...]

Vanessa’s Dumplings – Chinese, Lower East Side

118 Eldridge St, between Broome and Grand Sts (212) 625-8008 Pricing: Cheap Venue: Sit Down or Take Out Cuisine: Chinese Favorite Dish(es): Sesame pancake sandwich w/ Roast Pork ($2.99), Chives and Pork Dumplings Boiled (8 pcs $3.49) It’s one huge room- packed w/ people standing in a semi-line waiting to order. Others crowded around the cooking [...]

Super Tacos – Mexican, Upper West Side (Truck)

Super Tacos 96th St, between Broadway and West End Ave (SW Corner) (917) 837-0866 Pricing: Cheap Venue: Take Out Cuisine: Mexican, Taco Truck Favorite Dish(es): Tacos ($2), Tamales ($2), Torta ($5) This is the best $2 we’ve ever spent on food in Manhattan. It’s an (extended) family-run biz that’s not a restaurant but a small [...]

Metro Diner – American, Upper West Side

Metro Diner 2641 Broadway, at 100th St (212) 866-0800 Pricing: Cheap Venue: Sit Down Cuisine: American, Diner Favorite Dish(es): BLT ($4.95), Cobb Salad ($12.50), Chicken Souvlaki ($11.95) A diner is a diner, right? Wrong. Most diners in NYC have pretty bland, poorly cooked food with unfresh ingredients. Anything but the eggs is hardly edible. So [...]

Cafe Con Leche – Cuban, Upper West Side

726 Amsterdam Ave, between 95th and 96th (212) 595-7000 Pricing: Cheap Venue: Sit Down Cuisine: Cuban Favorite Dish(es): Meat Empanadas (Appetizer, $4.25), Cubano Sandwich ($6), Cream of Black Bean Soup (3.50), Huevos Rancheros ($6.50) This is a small, casual Cuban food restaurant with ample seating indoors and a few outdoor tables. Nothing fancy or spectacular [...]

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