We asked. You answered: Your picks for cheap eats in Atlanta

We asked for your two cents on cheap eats. Here’s what some of you had to say.

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The outside of Nick's Food To Go building, with blue graffiti words and a graffiti women with the words "Stay classy" above her

Photograph by Martha Williams

@danzitoli
Eats, Buford Highway. Chinatown Food Court in Chamblee. H Mart food courts.

@jakeimmauel
Prison tacos [El Progreso #14] IYKYK

@surfsandsunespresso
One burrito is a meal for two, that’s the deal at El Tesoro

@jpalatchi
Pan American Bakery off Buford Highway

@big0zel
If you need to feed a family, Jim N’ Nick BBQ’s feast in a flash

@vaisha.merugu
LottaFrutta is one of my favorite spots in Atlanta!

@tessahorehled
La Fonda, Fellini’s, Eats, El Myr, Café Agora

@mikerosen
Village Burger

@katherine_boggs
La Chiquiada in Decatur

@paul_brach
Nick’s Food to Go gyros are amazing! And he is such a character. I will never forget him telling the story of “this bitch from Buckhead” that wanted purple onions on her gyro!

@candacefromatlantis
Taco Pete for the winnn (I can send y’all there now because I’m not in East Point anymore)

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This article appears in our May 2025 issue.

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