Philadelphia Cheap Eats Comfort Food Joints

[FrugalDanny]

I've been creating a Google Map of above average cheap eats comfort food joints on my website:

I would like to gather some more names to investigate further. If you have any please post here. Thank you Danny

These are the ones I have so far

Capogiro Gelateria
Dalessandro's Steaks
Devil's Alley Bar & Grill
Grey Lodge Pub
Honey's Sit N Eat
John's Roast Pork
La Fourno Pizza
Little Pete's
Lorenzo Pizza
Los Taquitos de Puebla Restaurant
Moriarty's Restaurant
McNally's Tavern Chestnut Hill
Oregon Diner
Pat's King of Steaks
Sarcone's Deli
Standard Tap
Steve's Prince of Steaks
Tony Luke's

[dpdoughphilly]

Nicks Famous Roast Beef at 20th and Jackson. Make sure you get a combo (means with provolone), on the outside (means that they slice some of the crusty spicy goodness and put in the sandwich), overboard (means that they dunk the entire sandwich in the house rendered jus). And the gravy fries have the chunks that have fallen into the jus from carving the beef for sandwiches.

[gakski]

Lee How Fook, Pete's Clown House, Krakus Supermarket Cafe.

[FriskLamb]

Porkys on N. 5th - great pork sandwiches.
Grace Tavern on south near graduate hospital - poboys and sandwiches in general.
Cisco's in Flourtown for the best value cheese steaks - Bethlehem Pike ($4.50)
Fairlane dinner in Erdenheim on Bethlehemn Pike
Billy Murphys - Conrad street - East Falls - great wings and sandwiches.

[Elaine]

Cedars, Sahara for great middle eastern; Italian Trattoria at the Restaurant School for good pasta. Has anyone mentioned Campo's for sandwiches?

[naneharvey]

I second Cedars (better than Alyans and not much pricier).

Also Maoz (two locations) -- cheap and pretty tasty and open late

Johnny's Hots -- combo is a hotdog & fishcake on a roll. 1234 North Delaware Avenue

[PhillyCook]

Brown Betty (there's an original in No Libs, not just the Petit at Rittenhouse)

Abbaye (try the Abbaye Cheesesteak -- best cheesesteak in the city, with chimay marinated beef tips and gripped veggies, comes with a side of terrific homemade fries, all for under $10. Great beer list, too)

[FrugalDanny]

The Current Philadelphia Cheap Eats Comfort List:

Brown Betty Petite

Cafe Estelle

Cantina Dos Segundos

Capogiro Gelateria

Chinks Steaks

Dalessandros Steaks

Davids Mai Lai Wah

Devils Alley Bar

Dim Sum Garden

Dolce Carini

El Fuego

Good Dog Bar & Restaurant

Grey Lodge Pub

Honey's Sit N Eat

John's Roast Pork

Koch's Deli

Little Pete's

Lorenzo Pizza

McGillin's Olde Ale House

McNally's Tavern

Moriarty's Restaurant

Mrs K's Koffee Shop

New Wave Cafe

Nick's Roast Beef

Pat's King Of Steaks

Pho 75

Pho Cafe Saigon

Pho Ha

Pho XE Lua Viet Thai

Plaza Garibaldi

Royal Tavern

Sarcone's Deli

Sketch

Slice

Standard Tap

Steve's Prince Of Steaks

Syrenka Luncheonette

Taco Riendo

Taqueria Veracruzana

Tartes

Tony Luke's

Tony's Place

Vietnam Restaurant

[bluehensfan]

No DiNic's or Dutch Eating Place or anything at all at the Reading Terminal Market?...it's one big cheap eating place! :)

[ramonasaur]

also, the New Wave Cafe in port richmond/kensington, on allegheny at mercer (between 95 and aramingo). really, really good polish food, and i don't think anything on the menu is more than 9 bucks.

[Delucacheesemonger]

Vote for Nick's at 20th and Jackson, Tacconelli's, Chink's, Primo's Ardmore, Famous 4th St Deli

[barryg]

Famous is comfort food at its best but it is NOT cheap. You pay dearly for the quality, but they are the best at what they do.

[Rondo]

For Vietnamese, just went to Nam Son, 16th & Washington, yesterday. Son and I each had pho and split a bbq pork banh min. He got iced French coffee w/condensed milk. They give you a pot of tea. The bill was less than $20. The pho was better than Vietnam and other places I've had it.
Italian, add Dolce Carini on Chestnut St between 19th and 20th (I think). Great steak sandwiches and I hear their pizza is good but haven't tried it yet.

[rabidog]

is cafe de laos cheap enough to make your list?

hrm, if it is, i guess it wouldn't be fair not to mention these:

rangoon
vietnam
vietnam palace
vietnam cafe
...can someone help me out with the name of that HUGE vietnamese place, stand-alone bldg, at (i think) 11th and washington? nothing on the menu over, like 6? has it already been listed?
david's mai lai wah - this really doesn't get enough credit, i don't think. i've been there a couple times (granted, late, and after the bars have closed, so my judgement is a bit impaired) and the food is cheap, and solid.
saad's halal place
abyssinia
dahlak
gojjo
fu wah (deli, take out)
mama's (oh someone mentioned this - i second it - and also there's the location at 6th and south which is not vegetarian)

...this thread makes me wish that lakeside deli was still open...

[cwdonald]

well the successor to Lakeside is Dim Sum Garden and their wonderful soup dumplings... right by the chinatown bus station.. and a worthy addition to this list.

[rabidog]

OK, OK, i am going to try this dim sum garden i swears!!! :) the question is... how are their sesame balls??? chinatown bus station - there are 2 btw (tho they are both on 11th) but i'm assuming you mean the one that's covered by a building (is that the convention center? i should really know this).

[Bigley9]

yes, the bus station covered by the hilton? Parking garage? - after your loop through the reading terminal, go grab soup dumplings - it's in that block of 11th : )

[gbean]

Bring a straw to suck that lovely broth! LOL.

[ramonasaur]

i absolutely second fu wah (47th & baltimore) and their banh mi / tofu hoagies -- $3 for a filling hoagie with marinated tofu, pickled carrot, cilantro & sauce.
also delicious abyssinia (45th & pine? i think?) and saad's (around there too).

also, has anyone mentioned koch's yet? (43rd & locust) -- not super cheap but the sandwiches are HUGE (last time i was there the counter guy recounted a customer who dislocated his jaw trying to get his mouth around one) and they give you free meat and cheese and pickles while they make yours to order.

and tony luke's on oregon... mmmm.

[ramonasaur]

Pho-Ha! 6th& Washington.
I'm phoddicted. 5 bucks for a huge bowl of beef noodle soup, 6-something for the even more delicious weekend stew specials. the other week when it was like 9 degrees out the heat there was broken (it was fixed the next day), but the place was still packed with diners.

[FrugalDanny]

good one - done

[ken from conshy]

Pho 75 two locations Adams near Bvd. in NE Philly and Washington Ave S. Philly
Saigon Cafe next to Pho 75
Mama's 20th below Market - falafal
Steve's Steak Bustleton Ave. NE Philly

[FrugalDanny]

thank you ken

[rabidog]

what's the google map link?

taqueria veracruzana
xe lua viet thai
chef king (pretty darn good chinese delivery - 10th + sp garden)
jose's (10 + sp garden also)
taco riendo
spaghetti warehouse (kidding, kidding!!!)

[FrugalDanny]

i'm not allowed to post a link...but my profile has my site listed...once there look for philly down to the right. thks by the way i'll strt working on your suggestions.

[FriedClamFanatic]

Hey, WOW kewl site! Roadfood taken to a new level. Wish you luck.and hope that you get a CoL raise from all your advertisers to get you at least into the 1970's

In the meantime, although not in the city, Jimmy John's Hot Dogs on Rte 202 in Chadds Ford has been an instituion since 1940 ( I figured you could relate to that on a wage/ad revenue level)

[samsmom1127]

We just tried Paesano's, the new sandwich place opened by the chef at Modo Mio, just across the street from the restaurant on Girard Avenue. It was fantastic. A roast suckling pig sandwich, a hot dog wrapped in proscuitto, a chick pea pancake (sort of like Italian falafal), an order of roast potatoes, and two dessert crispelles (along with three cans of soda thrown in for free) for $22.00. We ate this over two days. I can't believe the quality for the price.

[FrugalDanny]

sounds great..mapped it

[juice]

Plaza Garibaldi
Nick's Roast Beef (Old City)
Mrs. K's (breakfast)

[FrugalDanny]

mapped thank you

[TwoBellies]

how about Pudges Blue Bell>?

[FrugalDanny]

nice...going to save it for penn map thks

[FrugalDanny]

on the map thks

[bluehensfan]

Brown Betty Petite near Rittenhouse for cupcakes
And oddly nobody notcied the Geno's omission...or would it not qualify for "above average?"
Cafe Estelle
Tartes in Old City
Tria

[FrugalDanny]

is it above above average (:-D)

mapped betty estelle tartes

waiting to hear other opinions on geno

tria is nice a little spendy to me

thks!

[bluehensfan]

Never eaten at Geno's, but "wit" Pat's across the street, they are kind of a two-fer...

[mazza3]

la lupe
el jarocho
sketch
ekta
tiffin
prohibition taproom

you just made me hungry and thirsty....jerk! :)

[FrugalDanny]

go get something to eat
lupe jaroche sketch mapped

[urbanfabric]

I'd say Royal Tavern and their sister Cantina restaurants (in South Philly and NoLibs).

[FrugalDanny]

added royal & cantina dos segundos

[cwdonald]

Syrenka's Luncheonette, and the New Wave Cafe, both in Port Richmond.

[FrugalDanny]

added thks

[gjassman]

Chink"s Steaks
Tony's Place (Tomato Pie)

[FrugalDanny]

taking a look and adding
good dog
reading market
el fuego thks

[bluehensfan]

Good Dog
Argan
Reading Terminal Market (esp. Dutch Eating Place and DiNic's)
Slice!
El Fuego
Naked Chocolate Cafe (although the old location seems to be oddly better)

[Bigley9]

I second Slice and add Los taquitos de Puebla

[FrugalDanny]

not sure which slice?

[Bigley9]

Slice at 10th and Federal - great thin crust pizza

[FrugalDanny]

ok done