Best Sydney Food under $10

$10 Faheem's Fast Food - Haleem - ‘King of Currie'

Faheem is one of Sydney's best curry joints. Fast, fun and incredibly cheap, FFF gets an AAA for value but don't come for the décor, the service or flattering lighting - this isn't the place for a hot date (unless you're both stumbling home drunk post-gig up Enmore Road). Faheem's commands maximum respect for minimum bucks and the ruler of them all is Haleem, dubbed ‘King of Currie' on the menu. Four different kinds of lentils are cooked down with boned beef until it resembles a thick, sticky paste served dotted with hot chillies. A squeeze of lemon over the top to cut the mush slightly and there it is, the best soul-reviving curry in Sydney and all yours for the princely (or, rather, kingly) sum of $10.
Faheem's Fast Food Marrickville

$10 Gelato Messina - Gelato

If you're used to ordering a misto plate and receiving cured meats, think again before you try Messina. In fact, think of a completely different part of the cow. Here, the only language they speak is ice cream, and with five scoops for $10 it makes for quite the delicious dialect. Don't limit yourself to the usual suspects (although a scoop each of white and malted chocolate makes a good alternative to plain old chocolate and vanilla). Instead choose from flavours like apple pie, yoghurt, cassata and blood orange. Hey, it's hard to go wrong when you get five attempts at a good scoop.
Gelato Messina Darlinghurst

$10 Plan B - Wagyu burger

Becasse. Wanted by many, afforded by few. Yet Plan B, Becasse's little sister next door, offers dangerously tasty fare at utterly reasonable rates. Take the 600 day grain-fed wagyu beef burger. The meat is David Blackmore wagyu, they pickle the beetroot themselves in Forum vinegar and the onions come caramelised in house-rendered duck fat. Sandwiches, soup specials and pastries also excel, but the burger is the real hero here and at only a tenner each, a total steal.
Plan B Sydney

$10 Bodega Café - Chorizo roll with chimichurri

Run by co-owner/chef Elvis Abrahanowicz's parents - Hilda and Adan - this Argentinean café operates as a bar by night so during the day you'll find the Abrahanowiczs working behind the bar serving choripan (chorizo rolls) with chimichurri, house-made empanadas and churros (both the plain skinny donuts and those filled with dulce de leche). Adan Abrahanowicz designed and etched the glass of the base of the bar (he's been etching glass since he was 13), while the main wall of the room is a huge Varga pin-up girl grinning maniacally and fighting a bull. Don't miss the hot chocolate.
Bodega Café Surry Hills

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