A Robert Sietsema top cheap eat; try a Newark Double Dog, which has fried potatoes and sautéed peppers and onions En savoir plus .
Small neighborhood café across from Sara Roosevelt Park. Order the BBQ pork sandwich: a demi-baguette with mayonnaise, crumbly star-anise sausage, cilantro, and plenty of shredded veggies ($4). En savoir plus .
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 .
They make great sandwiches, and turn out 35 types of tortas, many with wacky themes. Most are $7 or $8 and would feed an army. En savoir plus .
The specialty of this Greek rotisserie is charcoal-grilled chicken. Order the quarter chicken with a choice of sides and a toasted pita ($7.97) — and you get a free canned beverage in the bargain. En savoir plus .
One of Robert Sietsema's top cheap eats: this spot sells delicious pot stickers (steamed also available) at five for $3.95, with a choice of four fillings (pork, beef, chicken, and vegetable). En savoir plus .
A Robert Sietsema cheap eat: most dinners (including ribs, oxtails, mac and cheese, collards, and chicken done several ways) will come in under $10, and specials at lunch whittle down the price, 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 .
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 .
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 .
Robert Sietsema: bulgogi and galbi come in in outfitted box meals including pajeon, sprout salad, corn, slice of futomaki, and a generous, sesame-dotted serving of meat in sweet/salty sauce over rice. 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 .
A good first exposure to the place is the combination shawarma sandwich ($5.99), a gutbomb of meat oozing juices, pickles, tomatoes, tahini, and the fluffy white Levantine garlic sauce called toum. 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: "the falafel sandwich ($3.50) is as good & inexpensive ever, especially with za'atar-dusted shoestring fries ($2). The baba is also better than average." 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 .
The pork chop over rice alluded to in the restaurant's name is particularly admirable, two nicely browned chops with tender, crusty, and gnarly bits lubricated with a ground-pork sauce. En savoir plus .
Robert Sietsema: The signature dish was picaditas—hand-formed masa vessels with a rim formed around the edge the better to hold the carnitas, crema, and queso seco that threaten to overflow. 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 .
One of Robert Sietsema's top cheap eats: he enjoyed a gigantic plate of barbacoa de chivo, extensively braised goat so good we gnawed the tiny ribs clean. En savoir plus .
