Beigel shop on brick lane. 24 hour and a huge salt beef bagel for 2.50ish..
The Churchill Arms - pub on Kensington Church st. just south of Notting Hill Gate. Pub on the front, but authentic cheap Thai restaurant round the back.
Joy, indian on Broadway Market. This place is under-rated and dammed good!
Tre Viet, Vietnamese, Mare Street - Full sit down meal for less than a tenner a head. Unless you have wine.
Tayyabs - Whitechapel road - Brilliant Indian food, again, super cheap and super super good. Booking essential.
LaHore Indian / Kebab - Whitechapel Road - Boom good and super cheap.
Zeret Kitchen in Camberwell for Eritrean/Ethiopian food, unfancy looking, incredible food (good for a big party of people too), £10er a head including a beer will be plenty
Mandalay on the Edgware Road for Burmese food, unfancy looking, incredible food, £10er a head including a beer will be plenty, booking essential
Silk Road in Camberwell for Chinese food, awesome food, £10er a head including a beer will be plenty, booking advisable
Makan on Portobello Road will give you change from a tenner. Best nasi campur I've come across.
Kandoo (persian) on edgware rd is good as well, it's only a few doors down the road from Mandalay
Patogh just off Edgware rd (by cafe Nero). Good Persian food on a budget
Mangal Ocackbasi on Arcola Street, Dalston. Amazing Turkish charcoal grill, BYOB. Feast like kings for two is c.£30 (not including whatever booze you take). This place is all about the meat though - dunno how great the choice is for veggies.
CAMDEN - that whole in the wall on your right hand side a few doors down as you come out of Camden tube - great steak baguettes
Abu Ruchi in Stoke Newington, cheap and ace Keralan eats
Needoos in Whitechapel, as good as Tayyebs, but cheaper and less queueing
19 Numara Bos Cirrik, Dalston. Best Turkish in town, no argument.
Bella Vita on Broadway Market, 2 pizzas and a bottle of S.Pellegrino for about £16
Hot Stuff, Vauxhall. Awesome curry, tiny prices. BYO, no corkage. Order a fmaily naan, it is the size of the table.
Bhel Poori House in Chapel Market. Super-cheap all you can eat veggie buffet.
RASA (number 55, not 56) on Stoke Newington Church Street, fantastic food for under £15 per head.
-RASA Express, Euston Road opposite Euston Tower - two curries, rice, bread, pickle and dessert for £4 (vegetarian) or £4.50 (meat) - really good quality food as well
-Le Pain du Jour, Goodge Street - big, well-filled baguettes from £1.80, cheap baked potatoes and soup as well
-Maoz, 43 Old Compton Street, Soho - Delicious falafel in pitta for about £3.70, but with a sort of unlimited all-you-can-eat salad bar which they let you take the piss with. You just eat the filling from your pitta, fill it up again, take it back, repeat until bursting.
-Taza, Bayswater - amazing falafel for about £3, just don't eat it standing up or you'll be wearing tahini
-The King of Falafel, Judd St/Tavistock place - I like falafel, what can I say. This place is fantastic though, their 'moroccan bread' is a bit more expensive but stuffed with tomato or spinach and wrapped round really good falafel and salad. Best halloumi I've tasted as well
-Little Japan, South Kensington - tiny cafe, huge bentoes for about £5, cheap for a massive lunch
-Yoshino, Picadilly - must be the cheapest sushi in London. Shrink-wrapped in plastic but really good. £2.50 for a vegetarian lunch box
-RASA Express, Euston Road opposite Euston Tower - two curries, rice, bread, pickle and dessert for £4 (vegetarian) or £4.50 (meat) - really good quality food as well
-Le Pain du Jour, Goodge Street - big, well-filled baguettes from £1.80, cheap baked potatoes and soup as well
-Maoz, 43 Old Compton Street, Soho - Delicious falafel in pitta for about £3.70, but with a sort of unlimited all-you-can-eat salad bar which they let you take the piss with. You just eat the filling from your pitta, fill it up again, take it back, repeat until bursting.
-Taza, Bayswater - amazing falafel for about £3, just don't eat it standing up or you'll be wearing tahini
-The King of Falafel, Judd St/Tavistock place - I like falafel, what can I say. This place is fantastic though, their 'moroccan bread' is a bit more expensive but stuffed with tomato or spinach and wrapped round really good falafel and salad. Best halloumi I've tasted as well
-Little Japan, South Kensington - tiny cafe, huge bentoes for about £5, cheap for a massive lunch
-Yoshino, Picadilly - must be the cheapest sushi in London. Shrink-wrapped in plastic but really good. £2.50 for a vegetarian lunch box