Budget Dining Guide
America Eats Tavern Cheapest Menu Items & Affordable Meal Options
Looking for affordable food at America Eats Tavern? This budget guide lists every menu item sorted from lowest to highest price so you can find cheap eats and low-cost meal deals quickly. Prices updated July 2026.
Lowest Price
$8.00
Average Item Price
$17.52
Budget for Two
$35.04
Priced Items Tracked
40
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America Eats Tavern Menu Items Ranked by Price — Cheapest to Most Expensive
Every affordable menu item at America Eats Tavern sorted from lowest to highest price
| # | Menu Item | Category | Portion | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bread Basket | bread basket | — | $8.00 |
| 2 | Vermicelli Prepared Like Pudding | to follow | (philadelphia, 1802), the grandfather of todays mac n cheese was first written down by lewis fresnaye, a refugee from the french revolution, one of americas first commercial pasta-makers, fresnay | $8.00 |
| 3 | Clintons Gazpacho | soups, salads & sandwiches | (mary randolph included a recipe for what she called gaspacha in her 1838 virginia cookbook, showing the early spanish influence on american cooking. gazpacho finally arrived at the white house 1 | $9.00 |
| 4 | Peanut Soup | soups, salads & sandwiches | (george washington carver, 1914 ), carver published his peanut research to show how poor african-american farmers could prosper from an unpopular crop, peanut butter quickly grew from a delicacy to a | $9.00 |
| 5 | Hush Puppies | to follow | with homemade corn butter and american sturgeon caviar, a southern fishermans favorite, fried over an open fire with the leftovers to keep the dogs quiet, at some point, humans figured the corn cake | $10.00 |
| 6 | Mock Turtle Soup | soups, salads & sandwiches | (amelia simmons, american cookery, 1796 ), in the first american cookbook, simmons included a recipe for both turtle soup and mock turtle --- or, as she put it, to dress a calves head. turtle fash | $11.00 |
| 7 | She Crab Soup | soups, salads & sandwiches | (william deas, charleston, sc, 1909), scottish seafood bisque transformed with the addition of carolina blue crabs. deas, who cooked for the charleston mayor, dressed it up with crab roe when his bos | $11.00 |
| 8 | Baby Corn On The Cob With Brown Butter | to follow | native americans taught the colonists how to survive by growing and harvesting corn. now corn is the most widely grown crop in the americas, this sweet baby corn, from the best farming co-op near the | $12.00 |
| 9 | Chesapeake Crabcakes With Pickled Watermelon Salad | meats & fish | (lord baltimore Hotel, 1932), Just four years after opening, the landmark baltimore hotel published the first known recipe for this chesapeake favorite. | $12.00 |
| 10 | Crab With Old Bay Air, Out Of The Shell | to follow | (Baltimore, 1940), Spice merchant Gustav Brunn escaped Nazi Germany with a hand-cranked grinder in his suitcase. He created Old Bay in 1940 for Marylands beloved crabs and the recipe remains unchang | $12.00 |
| 11 | Eggs A La Benedick | meats & fish | (charles ranhofer, new york, 1894), chef ranhofer is thought to have developed this classic at his legendary delmonicos restaurant for a patron, mrs legrand benedict, who wanted something new for lu | $12.00 |
| 12 | Fried Chicken With Catsup | to follow | (gordonsville, virginia, 1869), deep-fried foods, first introduced by spanish and portugese slave-traders, are the living history that links the south and the mediterranean, during the civil war, wom | $12.00 |
| 13 | Grilled Butter Oysters | oysters | (thomas downing, new york city, 1825), a downing specialty beloved by the power-brokers, financiers and socialites who made his oyster cellar so successful, smoky oysters on the half shell, touched b | $12.00 |
| 14 | Hangtown Fry | oysters | (hangtown, california, 1849), hangtown was a rough mining town known for its public hangings and its gold strikes. when a lucky 49er struck gold, he celebrated at the cary house restaurant by orderin | $12.00 |
| 15 | Harvard Beet Salad | soups, salads & sandwiches | (fannie farmer, the boston cooking school cook book, 1906 ), supposedly named after the crimson color of harvard, this dish uses cornstarch, unlike its predecessors, the root puddings of medieval eur | $12.00 |
| 16 | Oyster Stew | oysters | (Grand Central Oyster Bar, New York City, 1913), Grand Central is the last living link to New Yorks great oyster culture. As rail travel declined, so did the oyster bar, which abandoned almost all i | $12.00 |
| 17 | Pickled Oysters | oysters | (new york city, 18th century), an american tavern favorite since the mid 1700s, before the days of canning, using the popular spices of the era. perfect with beer. | $12.00 |
| 18 | Pickled Sturgeon With Caviar | to follow | (mary randolph, the virginia housewife, 1838), the first regional american cookbook included several incredible pickles, including this fish --- now prized, but originally served to slaves. in the la | $12.00 |
| 19 | Waldorf Salad Youre The Top | soups, salads & sandwiches | (oscar tschirky, new york city, 1893 ), tschirky was a swiss immigrant who started his career as a busboy but rose to become maitre dhotel of the waldorf-astoria, his original recipe included only a | $12.00 |
| 20 | Buffalo Wings | to follow | (frank and teressas, anchor bar, buffalo, 1964), a late night inspiration by teressa belissimo to impress her bar-tending son and his hungry friends. rather than throw the wings into a stock, teress | $14.00 |
| 21 | Oyster Po Boy | soups, salads & sandwiches | (clovis and benjamin marin, new orleans, 1925 ), the marins worked as streetcar conductors before they opened their restaurant in the french market. so when the transit workers went on strike, they s | $14.00 |
| 22 | Oysters On The Half Shell | oysters | (thomas downing, new york city, 1825), downing owned the most famous oyster cellar in new york. a free african american, he stored his oysters in the basement, where escaping slaves hid on the underg | $14.00 |
| 23 | Shrimp In Grapefruit Cocktail | soups, salads & sandwiches | (irma rombauer, joy of cooking, 1931) , rombauer was a st louis widow who self-published the joy of cooking as she struggled to support her family. the book sold in the millions through the 20th cent | $14.00 |
| 24 | Shrimp N Anson Mills Grits | to follow | (jamestown, 1607), native americans first taught the colonists to hull corn into hominy, creating one of the first truly american foods, here we use creamy anson mills grits, carefully milled from re | $14.00 |
| 25 | Shrimp Remoulade & Fried Green Tomatoes | to follow | (francois tanty, french cooking for every home, adapted to american requirements, 1893), tanty was chef to napoleon iii and the russian czar before he came to america, and this dish is inspired by bo | $14.00 |
| 26 | Clambake | to follow | native americans taught the first settlers how to dig for clams in the 1600s but the colonists thought the shellfish was inferior food for slaves, clams were first cooked with hot rocks and seaweed, | $15.00 |
| 27 | Oysters Rockefeller | oysters | (antoines, new orleans, 1899), when antoine alciatores escargots grew hard to find and out of fashion, his son jules reinvented the dish with local gulf oysters, he named it for the richest man in | $15.00 |
| 28 | Spoonbread With Oyster Ice Cream And Caviar | oysters | (eliza leslie, the ladys receipt book, 1847), first named as indian puffs, this spoonbread is so light it could almost be a souffle, the ice cream was inspired by one of mark twains favorite snacks | $15.00 |
| 29 | Cobb Salad | soups, salads & sandwiches | (robert cobb, hollywood, 1936), cobb was the owner of the renowned brown derby restaurant in hollywood, one night he was hungry and supposedly created this salad from the leftovers he discovered in t | $16.00 |
| 30 | Maine Lobster Roll | soups, salads & sandwiches | (john d. rockefeller, mount desert island, maine, 1910 ), lobsters were so abundant that native americans used them as fertilizer and fishing bait, for centuries, lobster was seen as a demeaning food | $16.00 |
America Eats Tavern Budget Breakdown — Average Cost per Menu Category
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bread basket
$8.00
1 items
to follow
$12.30
10 items
soups, salads & sandwiches
$12.40
10 items
oysters
$13.14
7 items
meats & fish
$29.50
12 items
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