Tucked away behind a thick, red-velvet curtain, the tiny, graffitied space plastered in film posters is totally unexpected in the modern, four-star hotel , marked only by a small neon burger sign. Go for the messy cheeseburger, fries in a paper bag and a beer. Price: Burgers from around £7 Website: burgerjointny.

The fish and chips are a winner every time, and the mac and cheese and steak frites are favourites with locals. Price: Fish and chips, about £15 Website: theoysterinn. A proper family-style restaurant overlooking a pretty square just a few streets from the River Arno with tables and chairs outside.

The menu is small, the wine list extensive and the staff friendly. Don't leave without trying the gnocchi — baked with local cheese. Price: Pasta dishes from about £8 Website: osteriasantospirito. My favourite is a family-run pie shop tucked away among long windy roads in the wooded Highland village of Lochinver.

There are also pudding options: the apple and blackcurrant pie is the perfect combination of super-sweet stewed apples and lip-smackingly tart berries. Price: Pies around £5 Website: lochinverlarder. You pick your flavours and it's served with butter and Parmesan — we recommend ordering the mixed plate to try them all.

Charley Ward. Mary Lussiana. Lauren Burvill. Michaela Trimble. We'd pile in and tuck into confit de canard , endless frites and vats of red wine only to be kicked out at 3am it is more cavalier with closing time than most Parisian brasseries.

Price: Lunch from about £9 Website: facebook. Away from the twinkliness and bougainvillaea of Dalt Vila, and the harbourside honeypots, this restaurant is on a busy road, but once inside, you'll realise everyone else is speaking Spanish and feasting on plates of patatas bravas, boquerones, padrón peppers and mini tortillas.

A slice of authentic Ibiza among all the razzle dazzle. Price: Small plates from about £5 Website: elzaguan. The best cheap restaurants in London. The best cheap hotels in the UK. The best affordable hotels in Europe for Awards On The Move Travel Tips Video Podcasts Competitions Events.

Greta Rybus. In the winter, just sub in shaved cauliflower or torn kale. This soup packs in all the ingredients that would make your doctor happy—lentils, sweet potatoes, leafy greens—but the fiery Thai green curry paste keeps things interesting.

This Haitian meal consists of sos pwa nwa, black bean sauce enriched with coconut milk, served alongside mayi moulen, a creamy cornmeal porridge flavored with garlic and herbs.

Nothing is cozier. This family-friendly weeknight dinner takes a cue from Japanese grilled chicken meatballs called tsukune as well as the glossy, sweet-and-sour sauce that comes with them.

A classic Italian pesto , this is not. Spinach, cilantro, and miso come together for this uber-green sauce, which dresses, of course, springy ramen noodles.

In this brothy beans recipe, caramelizing fennel, shallots, and lemon builds a base layer that is sweet, tangy, and bright. Tinned sardines add protein and a briny flavor. A beloved Hong Kong dish with approximately one billion variations, this soup—which relies heavily on fridge and pantry staples—is meant to be a little sweet and a touch sharp.

Its silky texture comes from blended potatoes and broccoli stalks rather than heavy cream. Well, this is the salad version, with noodles in addition to pink radishes , orange carrots, purple cabbage, and green cucumbers. One head of cabbage goes a long way. This recipe, where wedges are bathed in turmeric-accented coconut milk until meltingly tender and sweet, uses just half of one to feed four.

The soul of this recipe comes from the ginger and tamari marinade that gives crispy tofu a sweet and savory glaze. We like to turn leftover tofu into tacos, for some Japanese-Mexican fusion. Toss roasted sweet potato wedges in a sweet and nutty tahini dressing for this quick vegetarian weeknight dinner.

And no, it will not break the bank. This budget meal is about turning leftover side dishes into something totally new. Nearly any roasted vegetable or cooked grain could be worked into a frittata using this method. This looks like something that took hours in a crockpot to make, but in reality, the black-eyed peas soak up the flavors of an onion- and tomato-based gravy in under 30 minutes.

Tuna salad deserves to be considered a dinner dish, not just a sandwich filling. Let the pan-fried chickpeas and red endive in this recipe convince you. Pan-crisped and glazed sweet potatoes.

With hearty, almost meaty lentils. And pistachios. Purchase lasagna noodles, mushrooms, mozzarella, and Parmesan. The rest of the ingredients for this cheap dinner recipe are already in your fridge or pantry.

One style of cheap meals: recipes chosen with their leftovers in mind , making two meals out of one. For example, these ground beef meatballs and their tomato sauce make for a great hoagie filling the next day.

If you've already got miso in your fridge and don't want to spend on something new, you could use that in this stew recipe instead of gochujang. It will be a whole different vibe, but a vibe nonetheless. Serve it with a poached egg and a slice of bread for a good cheap meal.

Easy homemade tomato soup is an upgrade to the canned stuff, but we don't judge. Try pouring the soup directly over the sliced sandwich for an irresistible comfort food. Consider this roast chicken your Sunday dinner.

And then your Monday lunch, too. You can turn the leftover meat into pulled chicken sandwiches or a chicken noodle salad. Do not underestimate the potential of the often underrated legume, the lentil, a key ingredient when it comes to filling but cheap meals.

Our creamy, almost Alfredo pasta -looking stovetop mac and cheese is about as easy as opening one of those little boxes of shells and powdered sauce —but a lot more delicious. Freeze half of these burgers to pull out during those times when you get the craving for fast food.

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Today, the warming broth is eaten at any time of day, and is best bought from a hole-in-the-wall vendor, where it probably costs less than the raw ingredients back home. But, for a mouthwatering, inexpensive treat, go to one of the popular Coppelia ice-cream shops — here you can buy the sweet stuff for next to nothing.

One of the most delicious dishes in Morocco, tajine is also fantastic value. Tajines tend to include slow-cooked red meat with dried fruit, vegetables and nuts, or chicken with lemons and olives, and can cost just 30dh.

These packets, served between 11am and 2pm, stacked up in towers of boxes outside stalls and cafés, tend to include steamed rice, curried meat or fish, vegetables and sambol a coconut dish often sprinkled over meals.

Marinated chicken, beef or mutton is spit-roasted before being wrapped in bread with layers of salad. In the evening, shawarma shops teem with people tucking in at tables or queueing for bargain-priced takeaway orders. Find a street-corner kiosk and you may be able to purchase these tasty little parcels for just 60 pesos.

Pad thai ,a tempting stir-fried noodle dish, is one of the best-value options. It is even said to have promoted unity in the country in the 20th century, when the then-Prime Minister Plaek Phibunsongkhram used it to encourage patriotism by hailing pad thai a national dish.

Cooked over an open fire, the spiced, marinated chicken or pork or even fish is at its best flaking off the bone, eaten as the sun goes down.

Or, for a street feast, try pan chicken. Fired in the same marinade over coal in an ex-oil barrel, it pops up on street corners on weekend evenings.

Using fava beans rather than chickpeas makes it moister and arguably more flavoursome than its Middle Eastern cousin. Indeed, it turns out that Egypt was probably the first to create these balls of veggie goodness, as evidence of the recipe has apparently been found as early as years ago, during the time of the pharaohs.

Stay off the beaten track for the very best. If that's tantaliised your tastebuds, and you're into trying local flavours, you might want to discover weird food from around the world.

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written by Freya Godfrey updated Kaiten-zushi, Japan 2. Nasi goreng, Indonesia 3. Bunny chow, South Africa 4. Fish and chips, England 5.

Thali,India 6. Pho, Vietnam 7. Ice cream, Cuba 8. Tucked away behind a thick, red-velvet curtain, the tiny, graffitied space plastered in film posters is totally unexpected in the modern, four-star hotel , marked only by a small neon burger sign.

Go for the messy cheeseburger, fries in a paper bag and a beer. Price: Burgers from around £7 Website: burgerjointny. The fish and chips are a winner every time, and the mac and cheese and steak frites are favourites with locals.

Price: Fish and chips, about £15 Website: theoysterinn. A proper family-style restaurant overlooking a pretty square just a few streets from the River Arno with tables and chairs outside.

The menu is small, the wine list extensive and the staff friendly. Don't leave without trying the gnocchi — baked with local cheese.

Price: Pasta dishes from about £8 Website: osteriasantospirito. My favourite is a family-run pie shop tucked away among long windy roads in the wooded Highland village of Lochinver. There are also pudding options: the apple and blackcurrant pie is the perfect combination of super-sweet stewed apples and lip-smackingly tart berries.

Price: Pies around £5 Website: lochinverlarder. You pick your flavours and it's served with butter and Parmesan — we recommend ordering the mixed plate to try them all. Charley Ward. Mary Lussiana. Lauren Burvill. Michaela Trimble. We'd pile in and tuck into confit de canard , endless frites and vats of red wine only to be kicked out at 3am it is more cavalier with closing time than most Parisian brasseries.

Price: Lunch from about £9 Website: facebook. Away from the twinkliness and bougainvillaea of Dalt Vila, and the harbourside honeypots, this restaurant is on a busy road, but once inside, you'll realise everyone else is speaking Spanish and feasting on plates of patatas bravas, boquerones, padrón peppers and mini tortillas.

A slice of authentic Ibiza among all the razzle dazzle. Price: Small plates from about £5 Website: elzaguan. The best cheap restaurants in London. The best cheap hotels in the UK.

The best affordable hotels in Europe for Awards On The Move Travel Tips Video Podcasts Competitions Events. Greta Rybus.

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