Cheapeatery.com launched last week as a directory of eateries and their menus where you can get a meal for under $10 (with the option to search for meals under $6). I like that they have a category for dumplings,...
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In these hard times, the crew at the office here has noticeably cut back, brown-bagging it more often and looking for cheap eats. One of the deals Alaina discovered near HQ is the soup lunch at Brooklyn Bagel & Coffee...
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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...
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Seth Grundberg of the New York Post and his wife roam Jackson Heights with $15 each, eating at four tasty spots in the process. Hop on the 7 train to feast on tacos, kebabs, corn cakes, and more, all within...
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Gordon Mark weighs in with another of his Guides to Manhattan's Chinatown. This time, he attacks cheap snacks with reckless abandon.
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Meeting up with friends for food and drinks in the city always seems to end with me bemoaning the state of my ATM balance the next morning. Last weekend, my solution to going out without going broke was to skip...
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New York Magazine's Cheap Eats of 2008 is out today, featuring the annual round-up of some of the city's best deals. Among the features: chefs' favorite cheap eats, grub under $5, and—natch—a look at the increase in prices from last...
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Craving the unattainable As a newly minted Williams College graduate I will work for food—or preferably, a full-time salary with health insurance. Making it in the city is hard enough and a meal at Per Se would be a dream,...
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Metromix's Joshua Bernstein has been quietly amassing a whole list of tasty looking $1 grub guides to New York City. He's already tackled Jackson Heights, Sunset Park, Nostrand Avenue, Flushing and Spanish Harlem. Not everything he eats looks tasty, but...
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Ever since I tried okonomiyaki in San Francisco's Japantown two years ago, I've been looking for something in New York that tasted as good. If you've never had okonomiyaki, it's often described as a Japanese pizza—a thick pancake filled...
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