Staying by Bayswater tube station. Willing to ride the tube to eat as long as there isn't a bunch of walking. Will be going to Westminster, Soho, Marleybone like every tourist in town.

Will be in the UK for 3 weeks and want to find cheap eats. Cheap but good. Less than 10 GBP per meal.

Would like fish n chips, pie, everything British. Love food of the world and things that are different. Appreciate the help.

A few for starters -

Tesco Express - sandwich and juice deals and wraps

The Co-Operative 24-hour convenience store on The Strand

Food for Thought vegetarian basement cafe in Neal Street off Covent Garden

An oxymoron..cheap eats in London.....it depends on what you mean by cheap. Of course right by Bayswater station you have a Mickey D, Burger King, Subway, Pizza Hut, Tesco grocery but I suspect you don't want to come to London to eat at those places but they're cheap. Walking along Queensway, the street that fronts Bayswater station, you'll find a whole bunch of restaurants of all shpes and sizes.

Now to each his or her own. I like Japanese restaurants and like Wagamama's. There is a branch on Kensington High Street. Take the #70 bus on Inverness Terrace; it stops right in front although there are also branches in Picadilly Circus and in Leicester Square among others.

Yo sushi of course is a gimmick type conveyor belt sushi place but they're just that, a gimmick and sort of a touristy place although they run specials all the time. For a conveyor type place, I use Kulu Kulu which is a block from Picadilly Circus station. Lots of Japanese people eat there so it must be pretty authetic and is somewhat cheaper than Yo Sushi. Another noodle place I like is a block from the Queens Theatre called Satsuma (see Les Mis the same night).

Like I say, it's a matter of taste. I don't like Indian food which is what is recommended by many for cheap eats in London. Others might help you with Indian places...

Oh yes, on Queenswaqy there is a branch of the everywhere Pret a Manger....sandwiches are fine and they have free wi fi (as do most Mickey D's_.)

check out Fire and Stone Pizza in Covent Garden. They are in a trendy area and the eats are good and inexpensive...not your typical run of the mill pizzeria... they have frequent two for one coupons in various travel brochures/websites.

Check out Groupon London. They offer coupons for various restaurants. Last month it was Gourmet burgers, Zizzi's and Porter Pies and Ask Pizza. If you are willing to skip wine and beer, you can get a good dinner at Carluccio's across from South Kensigton tube station. Don't expect to get cheap food in pubs! I paid over 25 GBP for a ploughman's and a mac and cheese, with 2 half pints of cider and beer for DH and myself. MOst pub food is microwaved so don't expect much.
Slug and lettuce is also featured on Groupon.

There are tons of 2 for 1 coupons for lots of 'mid-scale' restaurants and it will work out to £10 per person if there are two of you. But you need access to a printer to print out the coupons. Last month at one place I tried to just show them the coupon on my iphone and they wouldn't take it.

Tesco, Sainsbury, Marks and Spencer Food - all have very good cheap food - but it's 'take away' so you need to eat it as a picnic or in your hotel room. Pret and other sandwich shops are a little more (still under £10) but you can get good soups, salads and sandwiches and can eat there.

Wagamama is great - there are quite a few of them. Google them for the list of locations. They get busy and often have a line to get in.

Indian restaurants, Kabob places - these are everywhere and quite good - certainly a lot better than Micky Ds and that sort and at least as cheap.

DimT is another reasonably priced noodle/Thai restaurant with several locations around London.

We'll be going to London in a few months and I, too, would like to know of pubs and other eateries with good food around 10 pounds per person. We'll be going to Wimbledon and Greenwich and a number of places in between. Five years ago we stayed at the Hilton Olympia and found two great pubs (one a block west of the hotel and the other in the neighborhood behind the hotel) that were reasonably priced with freshly made and tasty food.

Another good disount coupon center is Voucccchercodes.uk . I print stuff out before I leave home.

I haven't eaten here, but http://www.belgo-restaurants.co.uk/ offers a "beat the clock" special - for example, if you get there at 6:00, you pay six pounds for your meal.

For lunch, we either got cheese, crackers, and fruit from a supermarket or picked up a sandwich at Sainsbury's.

We ate dinner one night at The Stockpot - tasty, inexpensive food. There's one in Soho. http://www.stockpotlondon.co.uk/

Lee Ann

The link I just posted for The Stockpot apparently isn't for the restaurant we visited, unless they've opened some new locations. Perhaps a UK Fodorite can clarify?

Lee Ann

The Stockpot was a mainstay for the London office worker when I lived there "many " years ago. However, I agree that they served healthy interesting lunches and dinners for a very fair price. I believe that there are several of them now so even though I've not eaten there in many years, they would not have survived and grown as they have unless they had something going for them.
A tip I know that most of you know though is to eat well at lunch--- way cheaper and then you can get by with a small snack or sandwich for dinner.
Sue

Forgot to say--- Marks and Spencers (the biggie at the end of Oxford Street- food market in the lower level) has delicious take away food. Mostly for lunch unless you have a microwave. Very High quality and easily satisfying for under L10 pp.
Even though we are staying -using points - on Park Lane, we will probably have a couple of M & S take away salads/meals in our room.

Wagamama and Pret-a-Manger.

Queensway has so many restaurants, inc Lebanese, Moroccan etc and some are fairly cheap esp the take aways. Further away in Edgware Road, one of the Maroush restaurants is a cheap, cash only place.

I've not been myself, but I hear excellent things about "little Persia" on Queensway.

http://littlepersia.co.uk/

I wonder if it may be a little outside your budget.

The Edgware Road suggestion is a good one if you like Middle Eastern food. You can take a 94 or 148 bus from Queensway to Marble Arch (or about 20 minutes walking), bear left into Edgware Road and you're in somewhere more akin to Cairo than London. Pretty much every business for the next 1/2 mile is Middle Eastern-owned. Many of the restaurants and cafes are cheap and authentic and you can relax with a hookah pipe if that floats your boat.

In the other direction from Queensway, on the same buses as above (or about 10 minutes walking) brings you to Notting Hill Gate. There's a variety of cheapish cafes and takeaways but the Churchill Arms pub (Kensington Church St.) needs a special mention. A traditional London pub with Thai food. It does tend to be a victim of its own success, so it's best to get there early for Lunch or Dinner, otherwise it can be difficult to find somewhere to sit.

In Soho, I like Maoz - it's a global chain, but has only one place in London (I think). They specialize in falafel - I think it is delicious.

I also like a little noodle place near Leicester Square - yk actually wrote it up in her last trip report about London.
Wagamama I don't find particularly inexpensive or good.

There are a bunch of cheap and pretty good Indian restaurants behind Euston station.

At Borough Market (on Saturdays at least) you can get a lot of free samples, and you can probably put together a nice lunch for under 10 pounds.

You can have a 2 course set menu at Brasserie Gerard on Kensington High Street for 9.95 GBP

SimonX's post reminded me to give you the link for www.fancyapint.com Pub recommendations for all over London.

Lee Ann

For a fun afternoon go to Camden Markets, browse the stalls and eat some of the yummy ethnic food they have available! One of my favorite spots in the city.