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Best Pizza

  • Nice Slice

Best Breakfast

  • The Modern Diner

Best Chinese

  • Shanghai’s

Best Healthy

  • Garden Grille

Best Place to Take Your Parents

  • Cuban Revolution
  • Kabob and Curry
  • La Creperie
  • Mill's Tavern

College Prowler Take

Although most RISD kids stick pretty close to school, there are still a surprising variety of restaurants that are cheap enough for students found on Main, Thayer, and Wickenden streets. Thayer Street is one long chain of restaurants and shops that spans several blocks in the heart of the Brown/RISD radius. In one block, students will walk past Indian, Mexican, pizza, Mediterranean, and Middle Eastern food, all of which are small unique restaurants. In fact, other than the occasional McDonald’s downtown, you might have to go outside Providence proper to find a chain restaurant.

Because Johnson & Wales has a culinary academy, there is a wealth of interest and innovation in the immediate area that is constantly replenished, and there are always new and interesting restaurants popping up. There is also a large Asian population that feeds some of the best Asian and Indian restaurants in the area. Finally, the large Italian population makes Federal Hill a Providence version of Little Italy. Thrown into the mix are a few college-hangout places, such as Meeting St. Café and Antonio’s, and a few four-star gourmet places, such as Pastiche, which is a dessert restaurant, and you’ve got an extremely rich and diverse selection to choose from. It’s impossible to get bored, but it helps to have a car or a friend with a car if you want to get to some of the more out-of-the-way places.

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Yummy! Meeting St. Café is my...

Yummy! Meeting St. Café is my favorite.

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Restaurants off campus are good...

Restaurants off campus are good but expensive.

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Anonymous says:

Sun and Moon Korean restaurant is...

Sun and Moon Korean restaurant is decent. Sakura Japanese restaurant is good but expensive.

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Anonymous says:

Gordito Burrito is cheap and...

Gordito Burrito is cheap and filling.

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Anonymous says:

There are a lot of fantastic...

There are a lot of fantastic restaurants around. Lucky Garden, a Chinese restaurant on Smith St., has great food and dim sum on weekends. I also like the little Thai restaurant located on Hope St. called Sawadee. Lemi’s Restaurant is my favorite. It’s where Reservoir Avenue is near Cranston. It serves great local Chinese food and is really cheap! Also King’s Garden is a nice dim sum eatery place. I don’t recommend going to Dragon Phoenix for dim sum—it’s terrible. Apsara, from what I heard, is a great Thai restaurant as well (located across the India Point bridge).

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Student Favorites

  • Cable Car
  • Nice Slice
  • Sun and Moon

Grocery Stores

Eastside Marketplace
165 Pitman St.
(401) 831-7771

Super Stop and Shop
77 Reservoir Ave.
(401) 467-1092

Whole Foods Market
601 N Main St.
(401) 621-5990

Restaurant Listing

Bombay Club
Indian
145 Dean St.
(401) 273-6363
Price: $8-$15
The best Indian in Providence.
Hours: Monday–Saturday 11:30 a.m.–3 p.m., 5 p.m.–11 p.m., Sunday 12:30 p.m.–3 p.m., 5 p.m.–10 p.m.

Apsara
Chinese
716 Public St.
(401) 758-1490
Price: $5-$10
Hours: Sunday–Thursday 10:30 a.m.–9:30 p.m., Friday–Saturday 10:30 a.m.–10 p.m.

Spike's Junkyard Dogs
Hotdogs, every kind you can think of
273 Thayer St.
(401) 454-1459
www.spikesjunkyarddogs.com
Price: $2-$6
If you eat a 19 hot dogs, you get them all for free.
Hours: Daily 11 a.m.–2 a.m.

The Modern Diner
Breakfast
364 East Ave.
(401) 726-8390
Price: $5-$10
Eat in a real old-fashioned diner.
Hours: Monday–Saturday 6 a.m.–2 p.m., Sunday 7 a.m.–2 p.m.

The Garden Grille Café and Juice Bar
Vegetarian
727 East Ave.
(401) 726-2826
Price: $5-$15
Try the concocted smoothie called “The Crazy Weech.”
Hours: Monday–Thursday 11 a.m.–9:30 p.m., Friday–Saturday 11 a.m.–10 p.m., Sunday 10 a.m.–9:30 p.m.

Geoff's Superlative Sandwiches
Sandwiches
163 Benefit St.
(401) 751-2248
www.geoffsonline.com
Price: $5-$10
Try the sandwich that has every meat known to man on it.
Hours: Daily 8 a.m.–9 p.m.

East Side Pockets
Middle Eastern
278 Thayer St.
(401) 453-1100
Price: $5-$10
They make it in front of you as you choose what goes in the pocket.
Hours: Monday–Saturday 10 a.m.–12 a.m.

La Creperie
Crepes of all kinds
82 Fones Alley
(401) 751-5536
Price: $5-$10
Hours: Monday–Thursday 10 a.m.–12 a.m., Friday 10 a.m.–2 a.m., Saturday 9 a.m.–2 a.m., Sunday 9 a.m.–12 p.m.

Antonio's
Pizza
258 Thayer St.
(401) 455-3600
Price: $2-$8
Good pizza, and it's extra cheap.
Hours: Daily 11 a.m.–1:30 a.m.

Cuban Revolution Café
Cuban
149 Washington St.
(401) 331-8829
www.thecubanrevolution.com
Price: $5-$10
Lots of cool art on the walls, live music, no cover.
Hours: Monday–Tuesday 11 a.m.–9:30 p.m., Wednesday–Saturday 11 a.m.–12 a.m.

Cable Car Cinema and Café
Coffee, sandwiches
204 S. Main St.
(401) 272-3970
www.cablecarcinema.com
Price: $5-$10
It's also an independent movie theater
Hours: Daily 7:30 a.m.-11 p.m.

Kabob and Curry
Indian
261 Thayer St.
(401) 273-8844
www.kabobandcurry.com
Price: $10-$17
Hours: Monday-Thursday 11 a.m.-10:30 p.m., Friday-Saturday 11 a.m.-11 p.m., Sunday 11:30 a.m.-10 p.m.

Sun and Moon
Korean
95 Warren Ave., East Providence
(401) 435-0214
Price: $7-$12
Hours: Tuesday-Saturday 12 p.m.-10 p.m., Sunday 12 p.m.-9 p.m.

Shanghai
Chinese
272 Thayer St.
(401) 331-0077
www.shanghairi.com
Price: $10-$15
Hours: Sunday-Wednesday 11 a.m.-11 p.m., Thursday-Saturday 11 a.m.-1 a.m.

Spice Thai Bistro
Thai
110 Waterman St.
(401) 331-5282
www.spicebistro.com
Price: $8-$15
Hours: Monday-Thursday 11:30 a.m.-10 p.m., Friday-Saturday 11:30 a.m.-10:30 p.m., Sunday 12 p.m.-10 p.m.

Meeting Street Café
Sandwiches, home-cooked meals
220 Meeting St.
(401) 273-1066
Price: $5-$10
Hours: Daily 8 a.m.–11 p.m.

Sakura
Sushi (Japanese)
231 Wickenden St.
(401) 331-6861
Price: $10-$20
Sit on the floor Japanese-style, BYOB.
Hours: Daily 12 p.m.–11 p.m.

Mexico Restaurant
Authentic Mexican
948 Atwells Ave.
(401) 331-4985
Price: $5-$10
Live mariachi band.
Hours: Tuesday–Thursday 10 a.m.–9 p.m., Friday–Saturday 10 a.m.–9:30 p.m.

Nice Slice
Pizza
267 Thayer St.
(401) 453-6423
www.niceslice.com
Price: $13-$17
Hours: Daily 11 a.m.-2 a.m.

Mill's Tavern
American with a French influence
101 N. Main St.
(401) 272-3331
Price: $15-$25
Nice atmosphere.
Hours: Sunday–Thursday 5 p.m.–10 p.m., Friday–Saturday 5 p.m.–11 p.m.

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