Best cheap places to eat in San Francisco?

Question

Been years since I've visited...Is North Beach Pizza still there (Grant & Union), and what about small Chinese place on Market near the Civic Center? I'm from the UK and looking for some places to hit when I next arrive.

Answer 1

I love Bill's on 23rd and Clement.
http://www.billsplace.qpg.com/
http://blogs.kqed.org/food/?p=169

Round Table Pizza is good.
http://www.roundtablepizza.com/RTP/HI/

Great India Restaurant
http://www.yelp.com/biz/OjmNtcx84W8EpY_hh-rluw

Chinatown is loaded with places.

Answer 2

North Beach Pizza is still around and worth the visit.

Cafe Prague at 584 Pacific Ave is inexpensive and very good. For the quintiscential American hamburger try Taylors's Refresher in the Ferry Building (the sweet potato fries are awesome). I don't know a Chinese place near Civic Center, but Thepin Thai is at 298 Gough Street near the Symphony in Civic Center.

Of course with the British pound so strong against the dollar it is a sliding scale.

Answer 3

Yes North Beach Pizza is still around.

I don't know which Chinese Place at Civic Center you are talking about so I can't answer that.

Here is a list of my favorite cheap eats
Henry’s Hunan at 674 Sacramento, on Battery at Broadway or between 2nd and New Montgomery and Harrison and Folsom south of Market near the MOMA. - Great Chinese don’t miss Diana’s Meat Pie
Tai Chi on Polk at Broadway – The best shrimp won ton soup and General Tso’s chicken in the city.
Axum on Haight at Pierce - Ethiopian food. The best in the city in my book. If you’ve never tried Ethiopian food do so, spicy, hot, and the bread you eat with is unlike anything you’ve ever tried.
La Mexicalli 900 Block of Sutter – good Mexican food.
Zapita on 18th & Collingwood in the Castro is also very good.
Home on Market at Church good comfort food [mac and cheese!] near the Castro.
Chow on Church at Market – California Favorites – stop in to the Pilsner and have a drink on the patio while you wait for your table, the Chow host will find you.
La Mediterranee on Noe at Castro great Middle Eastern food, friendly and filling.
Diner Food – Best is Mel’s on Van Ness at Geary. Lori’s is ok, [various Union Square locations] cheap but filling, and Max’s [Geary at Mason] is great but the portions are way too large. Two people can eat off one meal here!
Gaspare’s Pizza and Italian Restaurant 5546 Geary @ 20th Avenue. This is the kind of place that reminds east coast folks of their pizza places, plastic grapes hang from the ceiling, That’s Amore on the juke box, excellent calzone and pizza, great pasta with your choice of traditional sauces. A neighborhood favorite with families and couples alike.


Enjoy

Answer 4

In North Beach as well as all around SF, there is an Italian chain called Pasta Pomodoro, they are reasonable priced and the food is to die for. Every time we visit the city we make an effort to go there.

Answer 5

My favorite cheap restaurants here are the Mexican taquerias that are all over the city. Also, the Vietnamese restaurant Tu Lan on 6th St. Between Market and Mission.

Answer 6

Cheap???? Not in SF my dear....but moderate price, hit up Pizza Orgasmica by Union at 2AM.....great late night pizza

Answer 7

A la Turca (Turkish) - http://www.alaturcasf.com/

Cheap and good, granted donner kabobs are better in Europe, but there are other good choices on the menu.

Answer 8

That big restaurant on the corner of 56th Street and 896th Street.

They have lovely dustbins round the back.

Cheap?

Phew!

Answer 9

Pluto's. Def. cheap. Healty too.