A Robert Sietsema top cheap eat; try a Newark Double Dog, which has fried potatoes and sautéed peppers and onions Read more.
Small neighborhood café across from Sara Roosevelt Park. Order the BBQ pork sandwich: a demi-baguette with mayonnaise, crumbly star-anise sausage, cilantro, and plenty of shredded veggies ($4). Read more.
A Robert Sietsema Top Cheap Eat: This place dished out delicious pastas that run as low as $7.99, served with bread, olive oil, and as much ROmano as you'd care to sprinkle on. Read more.
They make great sandwiches, and turn out 35 types of tortas, many with wacky themes. Most are $7 or $8 and would feed an army. Read more.
The specialty of this Greek rotisserie is charcoal-grilled chicken. Order the quarter chicken with a choice of sides and a toasted pita ($7.97) — and you get a free canned beverage in the bargain. Read more.
One of Robert Sietsema's top cheap eats: this spot sells delicious pot stickers (steamed also available) at five for $3.95, with a choice of four fillings (pork, beef, chicken, and vegetable). Read more.
A Robert Sietsema cheap eat: most dinners (including ribs, oxtails, mac and cheese, collards, and chicken done several ways) will come in under $10, and specials at lunch whittle down the price, Read more.
A Robert Sietsema's top cheap eat: ask for your falafel "all the way" and Casablanca throws carrots, cucumbers, and beet-dyed radishes in the sandwich, doubling the volume and tripling the flavor. Read more.
Try the Curious George ($6.95), which includes three fried eggs, French fries in the sandwich (Yay!), 3 strips of bacon, 2 slices of melted cheese, and two pieces of boiled luncheon meat ham. Read more.
One of Robert Sietsema's top cheap eats: the wings ($7.81 for six pieces, or sometimes seven) are big and meaty and glazed, and constitute perfect stoner food. Read more.
Robert Sietsema: bulgogi and galbi come in in outfitted box meals including pajeon, sprout salad, corn, slice of futomaki, and a generous, sesame-dotted serving of meat in sweet/salty sauce over rice. Read more.
A Robert Sietsema top cheap eat: Why not take advantage of the expertly prepared Chinese charcuterie? Any two selections from the front window over rice comes to $6. Ask for "green sauce." Read more.
A good first exposure to the place is the combination shawarma sandwich ($5.99), a gutbomb of meat oozing juices, pickles, tomatoes, tahini, and the fluffy white Levantine garlic sauce called toum. Read more.
Robert Sietsema suggest the pork roast: "The meat is fragrant and tender, and runs from a medium gray-brown to darker patches and streaks, and comes accompanied by crisp pieces of skin." Read more.
One of Robert Sietsema's top cheap eats: "the falafel sandwich ($3.50) is as good & inexpensive ever, especially with za'atar-dusted shoestring fries ($2). The baba is also better than average." Read more.
Robert Sietsema: A favorite on a first visit was a chicken shawarma and babagnaoush platter ($9), the spice-rubbed poultry deposited right on top of the eggplant dip and squiggled with tahini. Read more.
The pork chop over rice alluded to in the restaurant's name is particularly admirable, two nicely browned chops with tender, crusty, and gnarly bits lubricated with a ground-pork sauce. Read more.
Robert Sietsema: The signature dish was picaditas—hand-formed masa vessels with a rim formed around the edge the better to hold the carnitas, crema, and queso seco that threaten to overflow. Read more.
Robert Sietsema dined on mafe, a Senegalese lamb stew in a creamy peanut sauce, served with white rice topped with a steamed Scotch bonnet pepper, for extra spiciness. Not hot enough? Ask for "pima." Read more.
One of Robert Sietsema's top cheap eats: he enjoyed a gigantic plate of barbacoa de chivo, extensively braised goat so good we gnawed the tiny ribs clean. Read more.
