Seattle’s Best Restaurants for Cheap Eats

Seattle Cheap Eats, A to Z

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

Seattle Happy Hours Around the Clock

Where to find great food on the cheap every single hour of the day.

Image: Paul Kooiman Tried  ’n’  Trues Bakeman’s RestaurantIt doesn’t get much realer downtown than the classic turkey sandwich that’s been freshly made in this basement deli line for 42 years. Real as…

Cheap Dates

Hanna Raskin's weekend project: Collecting and uploading takeout menus from the ID for your viewing pleasure. Image: Paul Kooiman The Elegant Night Out: Cafe MunirA casual decorum suffuses the white-tablecloth Loyal Heights…

Cheap Eats World Tour: Noodles

Image: Jordan Bonney CAMBODIABattambang’s Favorite NoodlesPhnom Penh Noodle House Seattle’s original Cambodian restaurant features this dish of soft pleasures, tangled with skinny rice noodles, peanuts, ground shrimp, fresh sprouts, boiled egg, and…

Cheap Eats World Tour: Sandwiches

Image: Jordan Bonney AMERICAN EAST COASTTat’stramiTat’s Delicatessen Sweet meets savory in this brick-lined Pioneer Square storefront’s headliner sub ($8 or $11.50). Think lots of thin-sliced pastrami piled onto a soft roll along…

Cheap Eats World Tour: Fried Chicken

Image: Jordan Bonney AMERICAN SOUTHFried ChickenHeaven Sent Fried Chicken When Ezell Stephens cut loose from Ezell’s Fried Chicken, he opened the nearly identical Heaven Sent, both home to spicy and original chicken,…

Cheap Eats World Tour: Savory Pastry

Image: Jordan Bonney EL SALVADORQueso con Loroco PupusaGuanaco’s Tacos Pupuseria El Salvador’s street food of choice is the pupusa—a thick corn tortilla stuffed with cheeses and meats and just the right amount…