What are the Best Cheap Restaurants in San Francisco?
Submitted by matthew on June 19, 2009 - 12:24pm.
San Francisco, one of the great food cities of the world has a highly developed restaurant scene. A lot of these places are very expensive, but even in these recessionary times, we can get some good grub at a Cheap Bastard price! What are your recommendations for the best Cheap Restaurants in San Francisco?
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Submitted by Anonymous Bastard on September 15, 2009 - 12:27pm.
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On Mission and 17th St., there's a great Mexican non-taquería called La Oaxaqueña. Home made, high quality, (and cheap!) southern Mexican food ranging in price from $0.69 (no kidding!) to $10.
Awesome!
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Submitted by Anonymous Bastard on September 1, 2009 - 12:13am.
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Yamo 18th & Mission
$5.25 for everything on the menu!
Burmese food. My faves are the Mango Chicken, Fish Curry and Green Tea Salad. Tip well, those ladies are workin' hard.
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Submitted by karen on July 24, 2009 - 10:36am.
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In the Ferry Building (!) downtown on the Embarcadero, where nothing is cheap, the lunchtime sandwiches at Acme Bread are the exception to the rule. For just $5, you get a thin and long and totally filling sammy of quality ingredients - Franami salumi, Cowgirl Creamery cheese, etc. - on their house wood-fired bread. They wrap nicely to go to boot. No bastard would be disappointed with these eats.
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Submitted by Anonymous Bastard on July 24, 2009 - 10:32am.
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Ate at this place on Mission and 18th called Corner, and it was a really decent panini for just $5! A real steal. All the food was simple, elegant for the price, and dirt-ass cheap.
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Submitted by matthew on July 2, 2009 - 12:31pm.
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Two words: Street Food.
For some good cheap San Francisco grub, avoid the restaurants altogether and go straight to the street vendors. There are some fancier vendors, whose changing locations you can track on Twitter, such as the Creme Brulee cart and the Magic Curry Cart. There's even a guy who tracks them all called Street Food SF.
But my favorite way to find street food, San Francisco style, is to wander down Mission Street and see what I can find: bacon-wrapped hot dogs from a cart, elotes and chili-spiked mango, tamales from a bag, or churros from guy with a box... It's an ever-changing display of enterprising vendors. You just have to keep your eyes open and your appetite ready!
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Submitted by Anonymous Bastard on June 26, 2009 - 12:18pm.
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Hands down, the best cheap restaurants in the City are taquerías. Some are upping the burrito prices too much, but others are still cheap. I like Taquería Cancún -- the best burrito for like $5!
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Submitted by Anonymous Bastard on June 19, 2009 - 3:15pm.
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How cheap? For under $5, my personal limit of "cheapness," I like to go to the take out dim sum shops. They look a bit grubby, but the food's cheap & good. Try either Good Luck Dim Sum in the Richmond on Clement St., or You's Dim Sum on Broadway in North Beach. Super cheap & tasty!
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