Allie's Donuts ★ 4.6
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: Cake doughnut and coffee
Iggy's Doughboys is a budget eat in Oakland Beach, Providence.
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.
Address: 889 Oakland Beach Avenue, Warwick, RI 02889, Providence
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: Cake doughnut and coffee
Spike's jumbo all-beef Junkyard Dogs come loaded with tomato, pickle, scallion, banana pepper and mustard. The Warwick storefront is the last Spike's.
Try: Junkyard Dog with all the toppings
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: Pizza strip and spinach pie
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.
Try: Slice and a soda
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: Three hot wieners 'all the way' with coffee milk
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: Pizza strips