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.

By Kathryn Robinson and Allecia Vermillion 6/11/2012 at 5:00am Published in the July 2012 issue of Seattle Met

Food styling by Jean Galton

Image: Paul Kooiman

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.