Eat well in Providence without overpaying: the locals'-budget edition.
Eat well in Providence for under €15 a plate: the places locals on a budget actually use.
8 places
Try Three hot wieners 'all the way' with coffee milk
Olneyville's signature combo: three hot wieners with mustard, meat sauce, onions and celery salt, plus a coffee milk. Under $13 in Olneyville Square.
Try Pizza strips
Caserta on Spruce Street has been selling Rhode Island pizza strips since 1953. Sicilian-style square slices with sauce only or sauce-and-cheese.
Try Falafel wrap with hummus and salad
Thayer Street's Middle Eastern counter has fed Brown and RISD students cheaply since 1997. Falafel and gyro wraps under $13, hummus plates, late.
Try Doughboys with cinnamon sugar
Iggy's Oakland Beach order at the window: a dozen doughboys with cinnamon sugar plus a clam chowder for under $15. The Warwick original is year-round.
Try Cake doughnut and coffee
Allie's Donuts on Route 2 has been a North Kingstown morning landmark since 1968. Cake doughnuts under $3, drip coffee for $2; the long line moves fast.
Try Junkyard Dog with all the toppings
Spike's jumbo all-beef Junkyard Dogs come loaded with tomato, pickle, scallion, banana pepper and mustard, from a Providence-born hot-dog counter in Warwick.
Try Pizza strip and spinach pie
D. Palmieri's, in the Palmieri family since the 1905 Providence original, still slings pizza strips, spinach pies and Sicilian loaves from Johnston under $6.
Try Slice and a soda
Fellini on Wickenden has been the family pizza counter since 1980. New York-style slices, fast service, open to 02:00 weekends; the cheap late slice.
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