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Best Budget Eats

In Brisbane

For a delicious lunch or dinner on a budget, check out this list of the most hip-pocket friendly eats that Brisbane has to offer, with mains coming in at less than $25 and a majority $20 or less.

Tucked away in Highgate Hill, this little Greek taverna serves the most authentic and best value Greek food in town
A sibling for the popular restaurant of the same name in the Valley has a second casual eatery tucked away in a Milton lane
An authentic and delectable Indian street food diner, unlike anything to be found elsewhere in Brisbane
This quirky colourful Colombian restaurant is located in an old West End cottage
The quaint hilltop eatery is serving up the best Turkish street food to be found in Brisbane
This new noodle bar in the Valley dishes up the fattest and freshest, authentic Chinese biang biang noodles in town
An authentic Ethiopian/Eritrean restaurant found in an arcade in the heart of Brisbane's Little Africa
Ciro’s Italian Restaurant is a tiny hidden gem of an Italian trattoria found in an Auchenflower side street
A bright and breezy terracotta-hued Mexican restaurant located in a tiny precinct of eateries off Lytton Rd
The Ukrainian Club Restaurant and Bar brings a traditional slice of The Ukraine to a quiet suburban street
Kafenio offers traditional Greek and Cypriot cuisine from its blue and white West End workers cottage
One of Brisbane's best Korean fried chicken restaurants, tucked away underneath Newmarket Village
This colourful flag-trimmed cottage in Paddington provides authentic Nepalese cuisine
This lively West End restaurant dishes up some of the best Mexican food in Brisbane
Club Polonia is the place to go for traditional Polish cuisine, beers and vodka
Sing’s Asian Kitchen at Rosalie is one of the inner west’s long-lasting gems
Hai Hai Ramen is a tiny Japanese ramen bar found in a black worker’s cottage on Paddington’s Latrobe Tce.
Taste of Saffron is a Persian and Mediterranean restaurant serving authentic cuisine in Stones Corner
Yeshi Buna is a charming little palm-filled Ethiopian restaurant
One of Brisbane's best ramen bars serving big bowls of slurp-worthy soup
Gnocchi Gnocchi Brothers, Australia’s very first dedicated Italian gnoccheria, can be found on Paddington’s Given Terrace

Still hungry for more suggestions on where to eat out in Brisbane, head to our comprehensive Eat & Drink section HERE! Happy grazing!

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