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    Cheap Eats

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    By Evan Kleiman • May 12, 2014 • 1 min read

    Lesley Bargar Suter is the Dine editor for Los Angeles magazine. She looks into inexpensive meals in L.A.:

    • The half chicken with fries for $4.50 at Dino's Chicken & Burgers on Pico

    • The breakfast burrito at Lucky Boy in Pasadena for $6.98

    • The $6 steak sandwich at Great Western Steak & Hoagie in Venice

    • A chili burger from the Original Tomy Burger on Beverly

    • $2.49 Margaritas on Wednesday nights at Baragan's Mexican Restaurant in Echo Park

    The full episode

    4 of 9
    The Restaurant Show; Cheap Eats; Irish Pubs
    1. 0:00Market Report
    2. 9:09Smoke City
    3. 16:40Breakfast Burritos
    4. 22:45Cheap EatsYou’re reading this
    5. 29:27Irish Pubs
    6. 36:27Fast Food Combinations
    7. 41:51Dinner in the Sky
    8. 47:58Asian Dining Rules
    9. 52:54Raw Chicken
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      Evan Kleiman

      host 'Good Food'

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      Harriet Ells

      Program Director for Talk

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      Bob Carlson

      host and producer, 'UnFictional'

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      Gillian Ferguson

      Supervising Producer, Good Food

      CultureFood & Drink

    The full episode

    4 of 9
    The Restaurant Show; Cheap Eats; Irish Pubs
    1. 0:00Market Report
    2. 9:09Smoke City
    3. 16:40Breakfast Burritos
    4. 22:45Cheap EatsYou’re reading this
    5. 29:27Irish Pubs
    6. 36:27Fast Food Combinations
    7. 41:51Dinner in the Sky
    8. 47:58Asian Dining Rules
    9. 52:54Raw Chicken
    Back to Good Food