Whether it's your first time out together or the hundredth time you've gone out, a great date doesn't have to break the bank. Here are some amazingly cheap and surprisingly amazing spots that will give you more bang for your buck.
Named after the buckwheat noodles so well-loved in Japan, Soba-Ya features that eponymous cuisine as well as udon noodles in a host of different and delicious meals. Better still, a menu of unusual but tantalizing ice cream awaits you after your entrees!
229 E 9th St (bet. 2nd & 3rd Aves.)One of the more innovative Thai restaurants to open of late, Klong Thai features both a full bar of fascinating and exotic drinks as well as innovative Thai dishes not usually found in the older Thai restaurants of Manhattan. Slightly below street level in a rather charming St. M...
7 Saint Marks Place (Third Avenue)Restaurant and bar in the old Black Betty space, serving cocktails, "adult" grilled cheese, and more.
366 Metropolitan AveFor more than fifty years, customers have crowded into Veselka, a cozy Ukrainian coffee shop in New York City's East Village, to enjoy pierogi, borscht, goulash, and many other unpretentious favorites. Veselka (rainbow in Ukrainian) has grown up from a simple newsstand serving so...
144 2nd Ave (9th St.)A now venerable old institution in the East Village, serving the eponymous and fantastic paella, along with a great selection of tapas and Spanish wines.
214 E 9th St (bet. 2nd & 3rd Aves.)A sprawling shrine to Turkish, Middle Eastern, and Mediterranean food in south Brooklyn, replete with fake palm trees and multiple dining rooms.
2337 Coney Island AveTiffin is actually an old English word for a light meal, and eventually became the name for a multi-compartment metal lunch box. Tiffin Wallah, in India translates as "one who carries the box" Tiffin Wallahs originated over a century ago to bring tasty Indian food to wo...
127 E 28th StFormer Morandi chef, and founder of Gottino, Jody Williams takes over the former Pink Tea Cup space and turns it into her first French project, a "gastrotheque" called Buvette. Buvette Gastrotheque is inspired by European traditions of the trade honoring a history of cr...
42 Grove St