After touring Boston's finest attractions the whole day, and just before returning to your affordable Boston accommodation, you'd probably want to grab something to eat.
The North End and Chinatown both provide an opportunity to sample great ethnic restaurants for less. Go to side streets (those not on the Freedom Trail) in the North End and you will discover Italian Bakeries that also offer sandwiches (no, you don't have to go to the most famous Pizza place in the North End to enjoy the food there); small places open only for lunches, etc.
In Chinatown, you can identify the good, cheap, restaurants because:
* They don't look like Chinese restaurants (that is, with red dragons and other "Chinese" decorations), but more like a cantene;
* Everybody inside, on the other hand, is. We needed in fact someone to translate our wishes to the cashier.
Buying cheap and good food is even more problematic. In Boston itself you can find mostly 7-11 (which haven't seen a fresh vegetable if it beat them); and two moderately-expensive chains (Shaw's and Whole Foods). Both are very good for shopping, and you can also substitute a restaurant's food for Shaw's salad and warm food bars (you pay by the weight). It is not extremely cheap, but for the same price, you would probably get mostly greasy chain food, not real salads. In Charlestown you can also find a chain called Johnny's Foodmaster, which caught our hearts, because it seemed that many handicapped people worked in that branch.
Also in Charlestown (which is in general, another place where you can find off the beaten track cheap places to eat and drink), you can find a "Friendley's" restaurant. For those of you who are not from the East Coast, where this chain operates: it is an ice-cream chain (with lots of balloons and attractions to keep your children satisfied throughout the meal), that serves surprisingly good casual "real" food, you can even get "healthy" stuff like very good salads, and the cherry on the sundae is that it is not very expensive either.
Here are several other restaurants found online:
Boston Magazine: Best of Boston's Cheap Eats
Best Inexpensive Restaurants in Boston, Cambridge and Eastern MA
http://boston.citysearch.com/roundup/38630
Boston: Cheap Eats (my favourite sites for restaurants, from the Boston Globe)
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