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Seattle’s Best Restaurants for Cheap Eats

Dives, diners, delis, pop-ups, greasy spoons, holes-in-the-wall—and a few thrilling finds we guarantee you’ve never heard of.

Kathryn Robinson
Author: Kathryn Robinson and Allecia Vermillion
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Food styling by Jean Galton

We got the heartburn and the Lipitor; you get the benefit of our yearlong research binge.

The Seattle area is overflowing with cheap eats—youth culture plus ethnic diversity plus food obsession equals a tightwad’s buffet—and we are the first to declare that this list is but the tip of a freakishly large iceberg. Everyone defines “cheap” differently, and we went with joints that cost under about $15 per person. Mostly way under. Lucky you’ve got us to tell you, urp, where.

Seattle Cheap Eats, A to Z

Seattle Happy Hours Around the Clock

Meal Deals

Cheap Dates

World Tour: Noodles

World Tour: Sandwiches

World Tour: Fried Chicken

World Tour: Savory Pastry

Seattle’s Best Restaurants for Cheap Eats: Directory

Published in the Cheap Eats and Beer issue of Seattle Met.




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Kathryn Robinson
Kathryn Robinson
Senior Writer Seattle native Kathryn Robinson, award-winning restaurant critic and senior writer at Seattle Met, has been anonymously reviewing restaurants for over 30 years—first as editor of the Best Places guidebook series, then as staff critic at Seattle Weekly and contributing critic at The Seattle Times and Seattle magazine.  Midcareer she spent a year-long sabbatical studying comparative religion as a Knight Fellow at Stanford University where she had been an undergrad 10 years earlier, gaining a knowledge base she now calls upon for her monthly “Back Fence” column on our collective urban existence and the meaning it holds for our personal lives. In her off hours she is a partner and a parent—which means she has no off hours.