With food prices high, it can be hard to eat out on a budget--especially while traveling. Luckily, Bellingham and Whatcom County have a ton of restaurants where you can eat affordably.
You may not be able to order steak or salmon, but these options for an affordable breakfast, lunch, and dinner in Bellingham don't lack in quality or flavor. This is your best bet for a scratch-made, locally sourced, organic breakfast on a budget.
It comes with two eggs, home fries or black beans, and toast or corn tortillas. Even cheaper is the Simple Egg Sandwich.
You get two scrambled eggs with cheese on toast or an English muffin, with the option to add meat or tofu. And here's the kicker: breakfast is available all day long.
This adorable cafe in Fairhaven Village boasts a small breakfast menu with a small price tag to boot. Or drop by on Sundays to grab a house-made everything bagel. They also offer a scrumptious selection of pastries and sweets.
Mix and match from a long list of bagel and cream cheese options at this affordable breakfast spot in Downtown Bellingham. Keep it classic with plain, sesame, or everything, or get interesting with a rosemary salt bagel.
You'll find the same spectrum or familiar to unusual options on the cream cheese side, with flavors like pineapple, pimento olive, and garlic-feta-dill. More good news: Breakfast is served all day!
Locus is known for their unique and unexpected flavor combinations, which you'll find in full force on the breakfast menu. The Sweet Toast-acado, for instance, features avocado and cocoa, maple syrup, topped with banana, strawberries, honey, coconut and cinnamon on sourdough.
Their food and drinks are fast, fun and delicious, and their sauces and flavor combinations are unique, creating an experience like no other. Cheba Hut came onto the Bellingham food scene in , bringing delicious toasted subs to the heart of downtown. Though this sub shop leans heavily into its weed-themed branding, you don't have to be a stoner to crave their food.
And you don't have to be the Monopoly Man to afford it. Choose from a variety of sub creations, both meaty and vegetarian, all of them perfectly toasted. The menu also features a selection of affordable "Munchies," like Garlic Cheese Bread, Pretzel Nugs, and Marinara Bowl O'Balls.
This cheerful Mexican cantina in Ferndale is a great option for lunch on a budget. every day of the week. The portions are big and the restaurant is spacious, so it's the perfect crowd-pleaser for a big family meal, an afternoon out with coworkers, or a happy-hour destination with friends.
Fill up for cheap at this staple burger joint in Bellingham. With two locations - one in Fairhaven Village and another in the Sunnyland neighborhood, just across from Trader Joe's - you're never far from a filling, affordable burger.
The real deals at Filling Station are the combos. Combo 2 gets you all that plus a soda for only a couple bucks more. Not too shabby. Nothing hits the spot like a Cornish pasty, and Holly's Meat Pies are made from scratch. Choose from Veggie, Vegan, Meat, or a breakfast pasty in flavors ranging from Chicken Pot Lie to Broccoli Cheddar and Lentil Curry.
Need even more pasties in your life? Buy them frozen to reheat at home. Pay by the dish at KuruKuru Sushi, a conveyor belt sushi restaurant located near Squalicum Harbor and Hotel Bellwether. Choose your favorite Japanese sushi rolls as they cruise by you on the sushi-go-round, taking as much or as little as you'd like.
Everything at KuruKuru is priced according to the color of the plate--yellow, red, blue, purple, or black--so you know what every item will cost you. Sample different sushi until you're full, or stop when you've reached your budget.
The cheapest options like edamame, California rolls, and inari are only a couple bucks, while premium items like sashimi and specialty rolls are a couple dollars more.
For fast, cheap pizza by the slice, head to this walk-up pizza window in Downtown Bellingham. Operated by La Fiamma Wood Fire Pizza, Pye Hole is a great stop for a quick bite of comfort food while you're out downtown. Easily one of the best sandwich spots in Bellingham, Cafe Rumba serves up mouthwatering Peruvian sandwiches seven days a week.
Though the meat sandwiches can get kind of pricey, the cafe offers daily specials Monday through Friday that mean an affordable meal is never far away. Beef dumplings. Potato dumplings. A side of rye bread and sour cream. That's the full menu at Pel'meni, a classic destination for Bellinghamsters looking for cheap eats, especially late at night.
Though Pel'meni is great for an afternoon snack or an evening meal, it's especially popular after a night of bar-hopping or catching a show in Downtown Bellingham. My Favorites. Please leave the following field blank:.
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Bacon Cheeseburger and grab two Jr. You haven't really eaten at Wendy's until you've dipped your fries in a Frosty. The money goes to charity and you wind up getting free Frostys for an entire year.
What to order: If you're looking to maximize your caloric intake for the buck, the Sausage Egg and Cheese on a croissant has a whopping calories. The bagels at Dunkin' tend to survive life before your mouth a little more intact than the croissant.
No, you aren't getting a coffee, but Dunkin' isn't fooling anyone with the name change. You still came there for the donut. What to order: Chipotle is not the go-to spot for a budget-conscious eater. You really can't get anything there's a kid's menu. The same thing less the juice box from the adult menu costs slightly more.
However, it's entirely possible if you think outside the Mountain. Yeah, the Jamocha Shake is only available here, but these are the best damn fries in the game. It's also worth checking if they're offering anything for signing up for the Arby's email list.
Sometimes handing over your email lands you a free sandwich or gyro. What to order: If you've ever been to a White Castle or have seen a film with the words "Harold and Kumar" in the title, you know the drill.
What to order: No, the Colonel still isn't bringing back the long-dead Double Down. Though, the nuggets would substitute well and keep you in the same price range. Plus, you'd be getting those sweet, sweet sauces.
Sometimes the classics are classics for a reason. What to order: Jimmy John's hasn't always been the best place for a super-cheap lunch.
However, in late , JJ added the Little John. Plus, there are seven varieties of the Little John, which gives you options, but the 6 is a solid choice if you're looking to get the most out of the smaller sandwich. The vegetarian sandwich comes with avocado, provolone, cucumber, lettuce, tomato, and mayo.
You're getting a lot more flavor there than with the spare Slim 5 and a few more calories than with the other Little John options. If you're ordering anything but the salt and vinegar chips, you're doing it wrong.
What to order: You're going to have a tough time pulling this one off. That's the highest calorie soup they offer. For the same price, you can come close with the Summer Corn Chowder or the Bistro French Onion.
What to order: You'll run into the same problem here that you ran into at Chipotle. You could turn to the kid's menu, but that can get awkward. Let's go a different direction. What to order: The Dollar Menu is dead; long live the Dollar Menu. That's the best you'll do unless you're dining with the Hamburglar.
What to order: Get dressed like you're making stops at the sock hop and Makeout Bluff, then try not to spill chili cheese down your chest. So, there's really only one option to make it all happen here.
Load it up with your favorite fixings and add in a bag of Sun Chips, because that's what you do at Subway. What to order: Yes, you could blow your budget and more on any of its ridiculously sweet Frap du Jour surprises. But you can actually get a decent breakfast as well.
Not to mention you should be checking the Rewards app to get points and see if there's a Happy Hour going down. What to order: You could blow the budget on the new Impossible Whopper , which is really a pretty good choice. That'll land you a bacon cheeseburger, four-piece order of chicken nuggets, cookie, value-sized fries, and a ounce soft drink.
Eat Cheap is the local guide to the best food and drink deals, added and edited by foodies around the world It's a smaller sandwich for just three bucks, making it a bit cheaper than the Slim 5 ($), the next cheapest sandwich. Plus, there are seven Eating out at a restaurant can fit in your budget when you take advantage of all these free and cheap food deals available this week. Eats
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