It’s hard to resist eating out for every meal in a town like Charlottesville, but ain’t nobody got money for that. So we cooked up a list of our favorite cheap eats—the expected ($3 dumplings at Marco & Luca, obviously) to the not-so-expected (read: grit bowl). They run the cuisine gamut, from Asian to Mexican to classic American, but they all have two things in common: They’re good enough for lunch or dinner and all under $10. We’re not saying you should eat out for every meal, but—oh, who are we kidding? With these kind of choices (and prices), of course you should.
By Shea Gibbs, Kathleen Herring, Laura Ingles and Caite White