Originally Posted by RichardInSF
One of the cheapest on Castro is "Food Street" -- Chinese. Not as cheap is the ramen place, Ryowa Ramen. I like the Manila Grill further up towards El Camino (where there is usually parking), but then I lived in the Philippines for 3 years long ago. The challenge on the main part of Castro is parking can be annoying at lunchtime, although you could possibly take the light rail for 3 stops from Ellis/Middlefield -- one light rail ticket is good for 2 hours, so it will do your round trip.
old topic, i know, but since i have an opinion, here it is:
1) the indian places (not nearly as cheap as they used to be, but still my fav)
2) the tied house (love the sausauge platter)
3) the chinese place on the north side of villa between castro and the tied house (i don't like chinese food, but can tolerate that place)
4) michaels (at the end of shoreline)
5) the mexican place at on dana north of castro (
la bamba is my favorite burrito place in the view)
6) maldanado's pizza (near latham/rengstorff)
7) tung kee (lots of bang for the buck; i'm still convinced it's a front of some sort)
8) tienfu (another tolerable chinese place)
regarding parking, even during the boom days, i only encountered a problem ONCE during lunch.
fyi, there are some great places in downtown sunnyvale as well. joslyn's (sp) in town and country village is pretty neat.