Cheap Food in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire*

Corner eateries, quick bites and the local chippy

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• "mels", about 30 secs down the road from the legendary KingStreet Run pub. not the cheapest or best chippy in town but a LOT better than most
• Regal is probably the cheapest place in Cambridge. Apart from buying from Sainsbury's and eating from the wrapper.
• the chicken and chips shop near billys on burleigh street is realkly good and cheap but the woman who works there looks like a man
• Curry King £10 for a meal and a pint for students. Really nice food. Ask for Ali. In bridge house (the alley btween the jewelry shop and La Tasca, bridge street.)
• Slap up Tandoori, Waterbeach is great food. Always friendly.Say hello to Margaret when you're there! Fort St George good Sunday lunch to soak up hangover. Good walk by river but watch out for bikes.Pizza Express Jesus Lane,better atmos than most - libary room!
• near billys fish and chip shop
• Dojos great food low price nough said. Mill Lane
• Gardinas, The trailer of life, the frying pan, The Galleria, Bridges bagette shop
• It's ALL ABOUT gardie's or the van of life/death were you can get a 'kebarb' for less than £6 shiny english pounds - who'd have thought we have currency that small. Otherwise, the buttery has an excellent array of items - oh i just love being a proper student, living so close to the bread line. If daddy could see me now, fending for myself, he'd wonder why he spent all that dosh sending me to Eton.
• Chez Gerard is pretentious chain restaurant with rude waiters, mediocre food and over-priced wine. However it is fun to go in there, ask for something "common" and watch the waiters freak out - asking for a burger works a treat!
• Gardinias.
• Dining out(round the corner form hoax)
• The best takeaway has to be Bosphorus on Mill Road. Carlos and his friendly gang make Veggiburgers to die for and the bast 'Spicy Potatoes' on the planet. Just absolutely the best thing for soaking up the alcohol on the way home.
• I used to regularly go to Yippee Noodle Bar in Cambridge until I got a severe case of food poisoning from them. After eating their noodles, I was hospitalized for 2 days with severe food poisoning (it had to be them since on the day that I got stomach cramps – I hadn’t eaten anything else). I reported the incident to Cambridge environmental health, yet they seem to be still operating as normal. So if you don’t want to die from food poisoning, don’t go to Yippee.
• After a few beers and your hungry, walk towards McDonalds, just past there is a greek place called Gardinies (or something similar) order a large donna kebab with tzatziki (i say it "tah-ziki") sauce. £3.50 if i remember correctly. You wont be dissapointed.
• ABC on Mill Road is the best in Cambridge, Jacks on Cherry Hinton Road is were the fish ate all the chips
• Uncle Franks on market square is ok when your hammered though is surrounded by fellow drinkers pissing up walls etc.
• How many crusty old "baguettes" (no relation to the French) stuffed with cheddar can you Cambridge types eat... there is more to lunch, but not in this town. Oh yeah, felafel is MEANT TO BE EATEN WITH CHILLI, it has almost NO FLAVOUR otherwise. And why are people so bothered about having garlic/onion breath, live a little you uptight parochial little people. I'm not foreign by the way, I'm just open minded before the biggots come out.
• Burger King in town, not grafton centre one cos its crap
• It's a friday night, and i'm with my mates, craving curry! So we head down to the best place in town...Tandoori Palace down Histon Road. Although the prices aren't cheap, believe you me their reasonable enough for the outstanding qaulity and taste of food they deliver. Moreso the service is exceptionally high, were they actually attend your needs, unlike some other places- who only help you if you look old and wealthy, as they scrounge for a huge tip! So let me assure you when you're in the mood for curry, T.P is just around the corner...so don't MISS IT!
• Who can resist mister burgers or Uncle Franks at market square after last orders or when you get kicked out of clubs. Within 2 minute walk of Toxic8 , Fifth and Fez business for those vans is amazing, the bugger drives a swish Porsche. Franks is cheaper and misters and taste better too. However, hygiene wise it wouldn;t be highly recommended that alcohol and food be mixed for the you may wake up in the early mornings and.... the mess just aint nice. Many have experienced such unfortunate problems. However, the double bacon cheeseburger with chips comes to just under a fiver, very tasty but pricy. As a student i would recommend the visiting of MaccyD's before it closes or before last orders to satsify that stomach. Please note it actually has bouncers sometimes during the weekend, amazing. Got any ID son, i'm only going for a McFlurry!
• KBC on the way to the Junction. Gardinias off Market square any other time.
• Trattoria Pasta Fresca, for the hottest pasta and totty behind an oven. Mill Road. Awesome deserts, if you can face it after all of that lovely food. Oh, and if you are curryish, you cannot beat the Golden Curry, just before the railway bridge on Mill Road.
• Mega Meals
• DOJOs noodle bar. mill lane by the river. huge plateful for £5 and tolerant of hungry sixthformers
• Gardenia
• Rainbow - ok, it's vegetarian, but it tastes great and you really don't miss the meat.
• The Varsity on Regent St is a top place to eat. The Meze is incredible - I went there for my birthday and was treated brilliantly. Loads of food and wine and only came to £20 per person. If anyhone recognises themselves as being the ones who ate all their food, drank loads of wine and then walked out without paying last Saturday, you are wankers. The police are after you because the taxi driver remembers where you live! Ha ha!!!
• Gardenia's (the gardenia) just off market squajust past macdonalds
• Dojo Noodle Bar- situated on 1-2 Milers Yard, Cambridge CB2 1RQ - man this place is heaving!!! no wonder with food that taste so good - plentiful! definite winner and popular too with locals. Tel: 01223 363 471. www.touzai.co.uk
• Bridges (Bridge St) for take-away cakes, sandwiches and bagels (a little pricey though.) Bangkok City (Green St) for down-to-earth Thai. Eraina Taverna (Free School Lane)for cheap Greek, and just about anything else you can think of. Avoid Garfunkel's (Bridge St). Gardie's (Rose Cres) for kebabs at 2am.
• Tony's on Norfok St and the best Thai meal ever at Wrestlers (bands on Fri/Sat)
• Wetherspoons, good food, wicked chocoate fudge cake
• The Gardenia for chips, the Fudge Kitchen for lovely Belgian Chocolate swirl fudge (+ free samples!)
• Browns on Trumpington Street for an excellent atmosphere and home-cooked food. Taj Mahal on Castle Hill for a wicked chicken korma
• All Bar One in St Andrews St does good quality, well price food in relaxed, informal surroundings.
• La Margerita on Bridge Street is fantastic and good value. They also own Don Pasquale on Market Square (darn good calzones!) adn a third place on Rose Crescent, which I've never tried. Gardies (properly Gardenia's) is The place to get a good kebab, and their burgers are pretty mighty too, although I personally prefer good old Mr Burger's.. the van at the Gardie's end of Market Square. (The one at the other end has always been called "The Death Van", and the urban legend is something to do with glass in someone's burger....) (There are HUNDREDS of other places.)
• Don Pasquales Italian cafe ,top coffee,pizzas and great restaraunt upstairs. KBC takeaway on Hills road [Parkers piece end] life saver from serious case of the munchies.
• The Thai Regent on Regent Street is an oft-overlooked but superb Thai restaurant. There's also the Rainbow Vegetarian Bistro near the colleges.
• Rainbow Bistro (basement) on Kings Parade (across from Kings college)9 am - 9 pm offers atmosphere, veggie food at reasonable cost, daily changing menu.
• Surprising paucity of what might be called 'fine food' restaurants in Cambridge. But I can recommend Restaurant Number 22 on Chesterton Lane. At around 20 quid a head for dinner it ain't cheap but in terms of value it beats Midsummer House hands down. Perfect place for a date.
• With regards to food, I have only one thing to say: on Mill Road, which is basically the Anglia University student ghetto, you will find the best kebab shop in the world - the Bosphorus. Their speciality, apart from being really friendly geezers and Zorba dancing to James Brown behind the counter, is the spicy potato - basically roast potatoes with a spicy coating. They're amazing.
• Check out Gardenia's Takeaway, though. Good food there. The best chilli burger in the whole world is served in Sultan's Restaurant which is on Hills Road, in between the train station and the city centre.
• Efe's on King Street has great Turkish, and the Muffin Shop (yes, the Muffin Shop), also on King has pretty good tapas. Neither are particularly cheap, however. Zak's is complete crap for Mexican food (take it from a Californian).
• Gardies is the place to go for burgers, chips, kebabs and Greek stuff. It's just around the corner from McDonalds, which it beats hands down for value for money, and it's open until about 3am. In the daytime try the cafe upstairs in Woolworths, which does amazing breakfast fry-ups and cheap tea+scones in the afternoons.
• Hobb's Pavilion on Parker's Piece serves excellent pancakes, home made ice cream etc.
• Fish and Chicken. Edible if your wankered.
• Tatties is the best! Cheep good food....very nice.
• The Rainbow Bistro is crap, whoever likes it is mad. They serve vegan wine for fucks sake. The Copper Kettle is brilliant, you can sit there with one pot of tea a book or paper and a packet of fags and watch the world (and everyone you know) go by. Pub food - the Granta and the Anchor are my favourites. Curry - the India House in Newnham is a classic, the Taj Mahal (i think) on Mill Lane is new but cheap and cheerful. always full of football teams. all you can eat plus live bands for about 6 quid in the fresher and firkin - can't remember which night but not to be missed. gardies and the death van on market square have to be done once, but easily forgotten. "Pizza Lane", (ie Pizza Express at 7a Jesus Lane) is brilliant - normal pizza express but really cool restaurant, live music etc. brilliant. Clowns 2 - one of the best kept secrets. Above the Arts cinema, amazingly cool cafe bar, open all hours, the kind of place where you can pretend to be a wildly fashionable lefty intellectual shrouded in Gauloise smoke, or an Italian football player, and get away with it.

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Last updated: 2011-07-29