Serious Eats: New York
City Room Compiles a List of $1 Eats
What does a dollar get you these days? (Besides a rapidly declining number of Euro cents?) Not too much, in the way of food. But Jennifer 8. Lee at the New York Times's City Room blog, drawing heavily from Midtown Lunch and Serious Eats: New York, sets out to compose the definitive list.
What made the cut?
Pizza, for starters, can be found for a buck at ninety-nine cent fresh pizza or Two Bros on St. Marks. Also on the list was fried chicken from Piece of Chicken, snacks from Gordon Mark's cheap snacks in Chinatown post, and dollar jumbo hot dogs.
What more could a dollar bill buy me? I'm still salivating over my recent pupusa from Soler Dominican, but that set me back $1.50. Sometimes I can convince the guys at Dunkin Donuts to fork over a Munchkin for twenty-five cents, but that's hardly filling. And fast food of any variety probably doesn't count.
So where else can you eat for a dollar these days?