A Robert Sietsema Top Cheap Eat: This place dished out delicious pastas that run as low as $7.99, served with bread, olive oil, and as much ROmano as you'd care to sprinkle on. En savoir plus .
Try the Curious George ($6.95), which includes three fried eggs, French fries in the sandwich (Yay!), 3 strips of bacon, 2 slices of melted cheese, and two pieces of boiled luncheon meat ham. En savoir plus .
A Robert Sietsema's top cheap eat: ask for your falafel "all the way" and Casablanca throws carrots, cucumbers, and beet-dyed radishes in the sandwich, doubling the volume and tripling the flavor. En savoir plus .
A Robert Sietsema top cheap eat: Why not take advantage of the expertly prepared Chinese charcuterie? Any two selections from the front window over rice comes to $6. Ask for "green sauce." En savoir plus .
One of Robert Sietsema's top cheap eats: the wings ($7.81 for six pieces, or sometimes seven) are big and meaty and glazed, and constitute perfect stoner food. En savoir plus .
To Laiko ("The People's") is a closet of a bakery famous for its iced coffee and filo-bearing pastries. The spanakopita comes in giant sheets, and is steaming hot as it's served up. En savoir plus .
This cozy new Astoria Japanese restaurant serves 14 varieties of ramen, plus rice bowls, salads, and snacks. Several Yelpers and Foursquare users recommend the cold ramen dishes.
Try the thukpa, a really wonderful salad of shredded chayote, and a fiery curry of cubed chicken sided with a steamed loaf of bread. It was way more than we could finish, and the entire tab was $19. En savoir plus .
Robert Sietsema dined on mafe, a Senegalese lamb stew in a creamy peanut sauce, served with white rice topped with a steamed Scotch bonnet pepper, for extra spiciness. Not hot enough? Ask for "pima." En savoir plus .
Robert Sietsema suggest the pork roast: "The meat is fragrant and tender, and runs from a medium gray-brown to darker patches and streaks, and comes accompanied by crisp pieces of skin." En savoir plus .
One of Robert Sietsema's top cheap eats: Try the steam roast chicken. There's nothing roasted about it—the bird is simply steamed with a spice paste that might remind you of tandoori chicken En savoir plus .
Robert Sietsema: A favorite on a first visit was a chicken shawarma and babagnaoush platter ($9), the spice-rubbed poultry deposited right on top of the eggplant dip and squiggled with tahini. En savoir plus .
A Robert Sietsema top cheap eat: the regular red tandoori chicken is probably a shade better than any other version you've tried. En savoir plus .
Try the "tripe special"—a Sicilian stew of potatoes and tripe in a wonderfully oily red broth, for a total of $41, including tax. Restaurant food doesn't get much cheaper than that. En savoir plus .
Get the Crossing the Bridge Noodles, featuring a steaming bowl of plain broth in which you cook thin-sliced pork, black medicinal chicken, quail eggs, garlic, chives, sprouts, and soft noodles. En savoir plus .
