Welcome:
Login/Register

Budget Restaurants in Boston

Read our Boston restaurant reviews. Or post your own.

View All Restaurants Restaurants: $(51 found)
Name Price/
Cuisine
Location
 
All Star Sandwich Bar
Be the First to Rate It
Map | Chris Schlesinger has a strict definition of what makes a sandwich:...
¢-$
American
Cambridge
 
Antico Forno
Member Rating: 3.0
Map | Many of the menu choices come from the eponymous wood-burning...
$-$$
Italian
North End
 
B & G Oysters, Ltd.
Member Rating: 2.3
Map | Chef Barbara Lynch (of No. 9 Park fame) has made yet another...
$-$$
Seafood
South End
 
Baraka Café
Be the First to Rate It
Map | Tiny Baraka may be atmospherically challenged, but after a few...
$-$$
Mediterranean
Cambridge
 
Barking Crab Restaurant
Be the First to Rate It
Map | It is, believe it or not, a seaside clam shack plunk in the middle...
¢-$$
Seafood
South Boston
 
Bella Luna
Member Rating: 3.6
Map | Sci-fi jokes are sprinkled across this spot's spaced-out menu...
$-$$
Italian
Jamaica Plain
 
Bob's Southern Bistro
Member Rating: 2.8
Map | Boston's home of genteel soul food and jazz attracts a mellow...
$-$$
Southern
South End
 
Border Café
Member Rating: 3.8
Map | Reasonably priced Sunbelt fare -- Tex-Mex with Cajun and Caribbean...
¢-$
Mexican
Cambridge
 
Bukhara
Member Rating: 3.0
Map | The helpful staff here guides you through a menu that spans the...
$-$$
Indian
Jamaica Plain
 
Butcher Shop
Be the First to Rate It
Map | Chef Barbara Lynch has remade the classic meat market as a polished...
$-$$
American
South End
 
Café Brazil
Be the First to Rate It
Map | Terrific meaty entrées from Brazil's Minas Gerais region...
$
Brazilian
Allston
 
Carmen
Be the First to Rate It
Map | Here's the kind of undeniably friendly, downright cute hole-in-the-wall...
$-$$$
Italian
North End
 
Choe's Café
Be the First to Rate It
Map | The food here is outstanding -- kept honest by Korean students...
$-$$
Korean
Allston
 
Croma
Be the First to Rate It
Map | Of all the sidewalk patios on Newbury, Croma's has the best view...
$-$$
Italian
Back Bay
 
Daily Catch
Member Rating: 4.6
Map | You've just got to love this place -- for the noise, the intimacy...
$-$$
Seafood
North End
 
Durgin Park Market Dining Room
Be the First to Rate It
Map | You should be hungry enough to cope with enormous portions, yet...
¢-$$
American
Faneuil Hall
 
East Coast Grill and Raw Bar
Be the First to Rate It
Map | Owner-chef-author Chris Schlesinger built his national reputation...
$-$$$
American
Cambridge
 
El Oriental de Cuba
Member Rating: 4.2
Map | This small haven, which was refurbished into a bigger, better...
¢-$
Caribbean
Jamaica Plain
 
Elephant Walk
Be the First to Rate It
Map | The chef of this popular Cambodian-French fusion house, Langtaine...
$-$$$
Eclectic
Cambridge
 
Flour Bakery Café
Be the First to Rate It
Map | When the neighbors need coffee, or a sandwich, or a muffin, or...
¢-$
American
South End
 
Franklin Café
Be the First to Rate It
Map | This place has jumped to the head of the class by keeping things...
$-$$
American
South End
 
Full Moon
Be the First to Rate It
Map | Here's a happy reminder that dinner with children doesn't have...
$-$$
American
Cambridge
 
Ginza
Be the First to Rate It
Map | One of Chinatown's best restaurants -- and one of Boston's best...
$-$$
Japanese
Chinatown
 
The Helmand
Member Rating: 2.0
Map | The area's first Afghan restaurant is named after a province...
$-$$
Middle Eastern
Cambridge
 
Hi-Rise Bread Company
Be the First to Rate It
Map | The best sandwiches start with stellar bread. Here, a range of...
¢-$
American
Cambridge
 
Le's
Be the First to Rate It
Map | Vietnamese noodle soup called pho is the name of the game in...
¢-$$
Vietnamese
Cambridge
 
Legal Sea Foods
Member Rating: 4.6
Map | What better place than the waterfront to build one of the snazziest...
¢-$$$
Seafood
Downtown
 
Lineage
Be the First to Rate It
Map | Downtown is saturated with decent seafood options but few hit...
$-$$$
Seafood
Brookline
 
Lucky Garden
Be the First to Rate It
Map | A modest holdover from the first golden period of Szechuan food...
$-$$
Chinese
Cambridge
 
Magnolia
Be the First to Rate It
Map | The heady scent of sizzling hush puppies mixes with the spice...
$-$$
Southern
Cambridge
 
Marco
Be the First to Rate It
Map | The second-story dining room is meant to evoke a charming Italian...
$-$$$
Italian
North End
 
Matt Murphy's Pub
Member Rating: 3.8
Map | Boston has dozens of Irish pubs, but very few are notable for...
$-$$
Irish
Brookline
 
Mr. Bartley's Burger Cottage
Be the First to Rate It
Map | It may be perfect cuisine for the student metabolism: a huge...
¢-$
American
Cambridge
 
No Name Restaurant
Be the First to Rate It
Map | Famous for not being famous, the No Name has been serving fresh...
¢-$
Seafood
South Boston
 
Penang
Be the First to Rate It
Map | Penang is a resort island with a history like that of nearby...
$-$$
Malaysian
Chinatown
 
Pomodoro
Be the First to Rate It
Map | This teeny trattoria -- just eight tables -- is worth the wait...
$-$$
Italian
North End
 
Publick House
Be the First to Rate It
Map | What started as a simple neighborhood beer bar has reached cultlike...
$-$$
American
Brookline
 
Rangoli
Be the First to Rate It
Map | Most of what Americans think of as Indian food is decidedly northern...
$-$$
Indian
Allston
 
Rani
Be the First to Rate It
Map | One of Brookline's more-unusual restaurants serves excellent...
$-$$
Indian
Brookline
 
Ristorante Euno
Be the First to Rate It
Map | Tiny and friendly, Euno is the North End's culinary mouse that...
$-$$
Italian
North End
 
Rubin's
Be the First to Rate It
Map | The last kosher Jewish delicatessen in the Boston area serves...
$
American
Brookline
 
Silvertone
Be the First to Rate It
Map | Devotees of this hip basement restaurant swear by the no-fuss...
$-$$
American
Downtown
 
Soul Fire Barbecue
Be the First to Rate It
Map | What this neighborhood needed most took a long time to get here...
¢-$
Southern
Allston
 
Sunset Café
Be the First to Rate It
Map | The lively atmosphere here may make you feel as though you're...
$-$$
Portuguese
Cambridge
 
Taberna de Haro
Be the First to Rate It
Map | Although Bostonians have already fallen for tapas, this is the...
$-$$
Spanish
Brookline
 
Tacos El Charro
Be the First to Rate It
Map | Drag naysayers who claim that "Boston has no real Mexican restaurants"...
$-$$
Mexican
Jamaica Plain
 
Tamarind Bay
Be the First to Rate It
Map | This tiny, subterranean space is brick lined and warm -- a cozy...
$-$$
Indian
Cambridge
 
Tanjore
Be the First to Rate It
Map | The menu at this fully regional restaurant, from the owners of...
$
Indian
Cambridge
 
Ten Tables
Be the First to Rate It
Map | Jamaica Plain's postage-stamp-size, candlelit boîte is...
$-$$
French
Jamaica Plain
 
Village Fish
Be the First to Rate It
Map | With one of the few raw bars west of Boston's waterfront, Village...
$-$$
Seafood
Brookline
 
Zaftigs
Be the First to Rate It
Map | Here's something different: a contemporary version of a Jewish...
$
American
Brookline


Buy the Guidebook

  • Fodor's Essential USA, 1st Edition
    $21.95
  • Fodor's Boston 2008
    $16.95

Get the Fodor's Newsletter

Read the current issue
For more travel ideas, tips, and deals, sign up for the Fodor's newsletter here. Browse previous issues.

Current Fodor's Newsletter

Copyright © 2008 Fodor's Travel, a division of Random House, Inc.