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sunday lunch at the crown and two chairman...yummy nutroasts and bloody mary ketchup for chips!

The Cheap food category on RGL has some suggestions.

If you want filling and cheap any of the numerous chinese buffets in chinatown.

Ten Ten Tei is SOHO is one of my favourites http://www.london-eating.co.uk/3077.htm

The Stockpot cafe/restaurant in town does great pasta, roast dinners, and traditional meat and two veg type stuff, very super cheap and cheerful. Try not to get stuck in the basement though, it's well worth waiting for a window or corner table.

Wagamama - there are a number of them across central London is a good place to eat well on a budget. The bench seating isn't to everyone's taste but its good food served in a clean canteen environment by friendly staff

globe pizza's at the end of columbia rd, or the veggie curry stand on broadway mkt on a saturday morning opp the cat and mutton pub

Old Eagle in Camden (NW1 9LU) has great Thai food, good pints and an amazing Bloody Mary.

the place (dance school in euston) has a salad bar where you can pile your plate high for about £3 and get a tasty slice of quiche for about £2. Together they make a good meal. in a hurry there's ICCO pizza on goodge street. the hare and tortoise restaurants in the brunswick centre and elsewhere do main courses for about £5. some of them are huge.

Very good cheap salad bar at Troy (bottom of Kingsland Road, near Cremer St). Also plentiful vietnamese places (Viet Hoa, Loong Kee, among others) with good noodle options

Kulu kulu in Brewer street, Cafe Pho near Oxford street, Tampopo in Fulham road, Al Dar in the King's road and Hight Street Kensington.

Maoz on Old Compton Street for cheap healthy eats. Fill up your own salad box, add falafal, hummous ... If you want to add a little unhealthy-ness to your healthy-ness add some belgian chips. Sit at the counter and people watch or take away and eat in soho square...

Vietnamese food on Kingsland Road

I like sandwiches for lunch and you can't beat the choice at Pret a Manger. They are located all over the city. On a nice day I take them away, eat in one of the parks, and share the bread crusts with the birds.

Best Mangal - West Kensington (North End Road) - I still ache for their kebabs 2 months after leaving.

Tuk Tuk Thai Noodle Bar in Bayswater, opposite the tube station - quick service, pretty decent food and very cheap (main course & rice side & soda under £10). Tuk Tuk has other locations in London, too, though haven't tried them.

Any Abokado. Great wraps, great sushi, fast service and very reasonable prices.

food hall on old street, next to shoreditch town hall, has a great menu that's updated almost every day, all dishes @ £6. also japanese canteen near hoxton square has a bunch of tasty dishes around £5.

Food for Thought, 31 Neal Street - in Covent Garden. Gets crowded - but great food at a very reasonable price. Been around for a long time as well - I remember eating in there about thirty years ago

Hit up Camden market for tons of international foods. You can fill you stomach for lest than 5 pounds

Near Piccadilly Circus you'll find Yoshino, one of the best and cheapest sushi places around. I always go to the venue at Shaftesbury Avenue which is take away only. You can fill yourself up of good sushi for under £4.

www.yoshino.net

Beigel Bakery on Brick Lane, cheap and very fresh...I think they open almost 24/7 ;) freshly baked...I remember it's only around £0.30 per plain beigel...a few nice cafe around too...brick lane is another visiting point too....very artistic

Beetroot on Berwick Street, Soho, has very filling vegetarian splodge for about a fiver.

Exmouth Market. You have so many choices in all the stalls, from Ghanaian to Mexican to Italian to Thai, and you can eat for under a fiver. http://www.exmouth-market.com/exmouthmarket.html

Tokyo Diner is really good for filling tonkatsu and endless free tea.

Eds Diner on Old Compton Street does a mean hot dog

Busaba Eathai has great food and is pretty reasonable (not supercheap but fine for a weekday dinner). We used to live around the corner and used to go there all the time - fantastic.

If you are on a budget in London, the tourist attraction areas usually have places where you can have lunch for a tenner (£10). Also, look out for pubs where a meal is served. You will see their menu board outside onto the pavement. Pubs serve rather good food these days, you'll be surprised.

Hare and Tortoise (Russell Sq, Hammersmith and a few other chains around London) serves really cheap food, from 5pounds for a big portion.

Le Mercury in Islington - really good value for a proper lunch

There's very good Thai on Chapel Market in Islington £3.50 small or £4.50 big. There's a few stalls but the best is from a small shop just off Chapel Market on the right hand side as you walk down from the Liverpool Road end of the market.