Pizza Mari on Leopoldsgasse in Vienna's Leopoldstadt fires Neapolitan pizza for under €11, the wood oven the 2nd district's most-defended cheap pizza counter.
Try: Marinara pizza
Tip: No reservations; the kitchen runs lunch and dinner Tuesday to Sunday, with the dinner queue picking up from 18:00.
Schweizerhaus in Vienna's Prater serves half a Stelze with sauerkraut for around €14, the cheapest serious pork-knuckle plate in town when the chestnut-tree.
Try: Half Stelze with sauerkraut
Tip: Order a small Krug of Budvar to start; the kitchen runs out of Stelze by 21:00 on busy summer nights.
Vollpension on Schleifmuehlgasse in Vienna's Wieden bakes Apfelstrudel under €6 a slice, the grandmother-baker social-enterprise cafe a budget alternative.
Try: Apfelstrudel and Melange
Tip: Slice and Melange for under €9; the Schanigarten on the corner opens from April.
Curry Insel on Lenaugasse in Josefstadt slings hoppers, kotthu and chicken curry on plate-sized rotis, a daily Sri Lankan plate for under twelve euros.
Try: Sri Lankan curry plate
Tip: The lunch menu is the daily-value play; cash speeds the queue.
Schnitzelwirt on Neubaugasse is a tiled-stove old-school Schnitzel room, the portions famously twice the standard size at among Vienna's lowest prices.
Try: Wiener Schnitzel
Tip: Tue-Sat 10:45-21:30, closed Sun-Mon; come for the Mittagsmenue.