Cheap Eats: 25 Greater Cincinnati Restaurants Where You Can Get a Meal Under $15

Goodfellas

1211 Main St., Over-the-Rhine; 603 Main St., Covington; 6099 Montgomery Road, Pleasant Ridge
Goodfellas Pizzeria features New York-style pizza at affordable prices. You can get a 12-inch pizza starting at $14 and add extra cheese or veggies for $2 each or protein for $3 each for the whole pizza, or split that cost and add it to just half. You can also order pizza by the slice.

Chacabanas Cuban Sandwiches

809 Elm St., Over-the-Rhine
If you love Cuban sandwiches, you need to try Chacabanas (named after the shirt style popular in Cuba and the Dominican Republic). This sandwich shop specializes in authentic Cubanos with three options: the classic El Cubano (roast pork, ham, swiss cheese, pickles, and mustard on toasted Cuban bread); the Ybor City Cubano, made with roasted pork shoulder and featuring the addition of Genoa salami; or the Croqueta Preparada – their Cuban topped with their croquettes. Chacabanas also offers antojitos, or snacks, like yuca fries, empanadas and their croquetas. Everything on the menu is $14 or less.

Cloud 9 Sushi

1018 Delta Ave., Mt. Lookout
This unpretentious sushi joint offers affordable specialty rolls, sake, martinis and cocktails. Try a special roll like the Hot Mama (a mix of chopped tuna, salmon, tilapia, white tuna and yellow tail with garlic, red pepper paste, sriracha and green onion) for $11 or the Bengals (spicy tuna that has been deep-fried, with spicy crab and avocado and topped with eel sauce) for $13, or take part in the half-priced sushi specials that go all day, every day.

The Whole Bowl

364 Ludlow Ave., Clifton
This is the perfect spot for people who don't like to make decisions since Whole Bowl offers only one menu item. While there is an easy vegan alternative, Whole Bowl's titular dish is comprised of brown rice, beans, black olives, Tillamook cheddar, avocado slices, salsa, sour cream and a lemon-garlic sauce. The only real choice a diner should need to make in the matter is whether to get a 12-ounce Bambino Bowl for $7.50, a 16-ounce Big Bowl for $8 or the 32-ounce Insatiabowl for $10.

J. Gumbo’s

286 Ludlow Ave., Clifton; 879 Galbraith Road, Finneytown; 4754 Cornell Road, Blue Ash
J. Gumbo’s brings a piece of Bourbon Street to Cincinnati, cooking up po’boys, gumbo and other Creole and Cajun classics. Po’boys are just $8.75 and entrée bowls, which feature the Drunken Chicken, Jambalaya, Voodoo Chicken and more and come in varying degrees of spiciness, start at $8.99, or you can combine two entrées into one for just $12.