Cheap Eats

One Star Bar Broke-Ass Stuart New York City
28 Apr 2014

Chilling in Chelsea: One Star Bar

Photo from Yelp.com It’s a known fact that your experience in a bar is different when you’re 21 than when you’re 31. I now view going to bars as an opportunity to bond with the few friends I have left instead of getting trashed with a bunch of acquaintances who

Elizabeth DiPietro - The Sporty Spendthrift 0
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10 Apr 2014

Searching for Sports in Hipster-Land: The East Village

Photo from thehorseboxnyc.com If you’re a sports fan like me, I’m sure it happens to you all the time: Your friends are dying to try that new lounge/bistro/dive in [insert newly gentrified NYC neighborhood here] but all you want to do is sit back with a cheap cold one and

Elizabeth DiPietro - The Sporty Spendthrift 0
vanessa's dumpling house
15 Nov 2013

Vannessa’s Dumpling House: So Damn Cheap, So Damn Good!

Food is absolutely amazing! It can pick you up when you are feeling down, help celebrate life’s Hallmark moments, bridge the gaps between cultures and most of it fuels your body! With that being said, it is obvious we need food…right?! But what if you are strapped for cash? You

Ted Wolfe - Le Chintzy Chef 0
12 Mar 2013

Quick & Cheap to Keep You on Your Feet

 Canned Tuna  While most people may find canned tuna a bit repulsive and unattractive due to the obvious fact that it is a canned food, I happen to have fallen for it. It has saved my soul on various occasions. Just grab some mayo and maybe 2 slices of toast

Joanne Rae - Coinless Wanderer 0
28 Feb 2013

Incredibly Cheap Japanese Cuisine at Cafetasia

Cafetasia is your not-so-typical Japanese cuisine located in the New York City’s quintessential neighborhood, Greenwich Village. It is unconventional perhaps due to the large volume of diverse individuals that step foot in there every day and night and probably because of the bar-like atmosphere it transforms into sometime during the

Joanne Rae - Coinless Wanderer 0
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21 Feb 2013

A BBQ Dine-In at Mable’s Smokehouse & Banquet Hall

I don’t know about you, but this platter of food that we are both staring at here is certainly doing its job of promoting a lustful desire for this Mom & Pop BBQ restaurant. It surely is for me. According to its creators Meghan and Jeff, this hearty smokehouse developed

Joanne Rae - Coinless Wanderer 0
11 Sep 2012

Learn About Urban Chicken Keeping at a FREE Workshop in Bed-Stuy

The words “Chickens in Bed-Stuy” may conjure up images of an awesome muppet remake of a Spike Lee joint, but don’t get too excited just yet– when we talk about hens in Central Brooklyn on this website, we’re talking about urban chicken keeping.  Intrigued?  Then attend a FREE workshop on

Carrie Laven - Pretty Penniless 0