cheap eats Archives

&pizza adds a Buffalo Chicken pizza to their menu, entices users to order on mobile app

In an email newsletter, &pizza announced a new addition to their fast casual pizza menu. Called “The Dirty Bird”, the pizza’s star ingredient is pulled chicken and buffalo sauce.

By Benjamin Rose

August 30, 2017August 30, 2017

Food Tech

Does &PIZZA do delivery and how to use their app

It’s a cold and rainy evening and you’re in your comfortable house wear or favorite Pokemon pajamas. What’s more perfect than getting hot cheesy pizza delivered to your home while you binge-watch your shows of choice?

By Kyle G.

August 26, 2017August 26, 2017

City Food

Oh no… did Lam Zhou Handmade Noodle REALLY close for good?

Yelpers have reported that famous noodle joint Lam Zhou Handmade Noodle has closed. Please, say it isn’t so.

By stuart

August 6, 2017September 7, 2017

Food

Here’s the Schnippers promo code for $2 off your hamburger and fries

New Yorkers, are you looking for an affordable American food option to add into your lunch rotation or just craving a burger and fries or onion rings with mac n cheese? Then Schnippers may be what you’re looking for.

By Kyle G.

August 5, 2017August 5, 2017

Food

The sweetgreen promo code good for $3 off sweetgreen

Despite a pre-diabetes diagnosis in 2009 and spending over a decade in California, if you had suggested that I have salad for a meal even three years ago, I would have scoffed at you and ended our friendship.

By stuart

December 19, 2016December 20, 2016

Food

Sweetgreen Discount: $3 off sweetgreen with this coupon code

By stuart

June 28, 2016February 27, 2020

Money

Vegas without breaking the bank

Bright lights, big names, a sense of adventure and extravagance and the knowledge that someone not far away is about to win a fortune – there really is a lot to get excited about when you start to think about a trip to Las Vegas.

By Benjamin Rose

January 5, 2016February 23, 2017

City

Cheap and tasty rice noodle rolls from Sun Hing Lung Co

Cheong fun is a dish associated with dim sum. It’s normally found side-by-side with some of the more popular dim sum dishes like har gow, sui mai and char su bao.

By stuart

August 30, 2015August 30, 2015

Food New York

Best of the East Village: Ramen Misoya’s lunch special might be the best ramen deal in New York

There’s no lack of ramen joints in the East Village; with no fewer than fifteen restaurants that offer up the tasty Japanese noodle dish in the neighborhood.

By stuart

July 18, 2015July 18, 2015

Culture New York

Is Kennedy Fried Chicken on 14th street closed for good?

With each new bank branch and fast franchise that opened on East 14th the last two years, the Kennedy Fried Chicken outpost felt more and more out of place in the East Village.

By stuart

May 29, 2015August 17, 2015

Food

Can you still eat meat that is freezer burned? Is it safe?

I like to cook, but no means am I a “chef”, mostly I like cooking my own food because it’s an easy way to control my intake and the cost of my meals.

By stuart

March 24, 2015September 24, 2015

City Food

New York’s Cheap Eats #2: Halal Cart (Chicken & Rice for $5)

In a past post, I discussed the #1 cheap eat option in New York City: Pizza.

By stuart

March 10, 2015May 30, 2015

Food New York

New York’s Cheap Eats: The ubiquitous $1 pizza (or 99 cent pizza slice)

One thing that I was pleasantly surprised by when I moved to New York was the affordable food options in the city.

By Benjamin Rose

February 22, 2015February 23, 2017

Food

The ultimate list of the best “cheap & tasty” restaurants in Manhattan (updated)

One’s definition of “cheap” becomes skewed when they live in a city like New York for a long enough time. Cheap becomes relative.

By stuart

December 3, 2014July 6, 2017

Food

I had a ramen burger and didn’t have to wait in line for 45 minutes!

In the last couple weeks, I had the chance to eat a ramen burger… without waiting in a long ass line, in Brooklyn, without fanfare or pretension, indoors, for $7.95… twice. Just had to add those extra details in there.

By stuart

July 23, 2014September 24, 2015