How to get a cheap meal in Melbourne every night of the week

The Empress Hotel, Fitzroy North
$20 parma, from 5pm

The Workers Club, Fitzroy
$15 lunch specials, from noon-3pm (daily until Friday)

The Fitzroy Beer Garden, Fitzroy
25% off your total food bill

The Wesley Anne, Northcote
Bangers and mash-ups for $24.99

The Bridge Hotel, Richmond
Butcher's cut of steak, chips, your choice of sauce or gravy, and salad, plus glass of house wine or pot of Carlton for $25

Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood
$22 chicken or $20 eggplant parma with chips and salad, from 5-9pm (optional $4 pot of Coopers Pale Ale to sweeten the deal)

The Cornish Arms, Brunswick
3 tacos for $15, add a Marg for $14

The Empress Hotel, Fitzroy North
Burger (beef, schnitzel or veggie), fries and a pot of Mt Goat lager for $17

Lona Pintxos Bar, St Kilda
50% off the food bill and happy hour deals all day

The Bridge Hotel, Richmond
Chicken parma, chips and salad for $20 (veggie option available)

Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood
$19 burger (veggie, Angus beef or chicken), served with the lot and hand cut chips (optional pot of $4 Furphy)

Stomping Ground, Collingwood
$20 steak night

Lucky Coq, Prahran
$5 pizzas all day (daily until Sunday)

Northcote Social Club, Northcote
$20 pie, chips and salad, from 5pm

The Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy
250g of rare breed porterhouse steak cooked to your liking, with your choice of sauces and two sides, for just $25

Carlton Brewhouse, Abbotsford
$15 burgers and jugs all day

The Cornish Arms, Brunswick
$20 vegan steak or $23 steak, available all day

Lona Pintxos Bar, Saint Kilda
$20 200g porterhouse steak of $25 300g porterhouse steak, with chips, salad and red wine or pepper sauce

The Empress Hotel, Fitzroy North
$1 wings

Grace Darling Hotel, Collingwood
250g porterhouse steak with chips and salad for $24 (optional glass of $8 Rockbox Sangiovese)

Northcote Social Club, Northcote
$23 steak, chips and salad, from 5pm

Good Times, Fitzroy North
$9 pasta, $9 carafes of wine and $9 Negronis, from 4pm until late (continues until Saturday)

Carlton Brewhouse, Abbotsford
$15 parmas all day

The Fitzroy Beer Garden, Fitzroy
$16 burgers and two cocktails for $35

The Cornish Arms, Brunswick
$15 burgers for lunch, from 12-3pm

Stomping Ground, Collingwood
$2 oysters with beer mignonette

The National Hotel, Richmond
$4 steamed bao buns and happy hour drink specials, from 5-7pm

Heartattack and Vine, Carlton
$4.50 to $8 for assorted cicchetti at dinner (Venetian-style snacks) or grab a $12 porchetta roll in the morning

Rising Sun, Richmond
$25 steak sanga and a pot of beer

Rochester Hotel, Fitzroy
$20 main with glass of wine or pot (lunch only)

Victoria Hotel, Brunswick
$18 lunch deals, from noon-3pm

The Exchange Hotel, Port Melbourne
$27 traditional Sunday roast, from noon until sold out

Lona Pintxos Bar Saint Kilda, Saint Kilda
$16 chicken parmas all day (club members only, but membership is free!)

The National Hotel, Richmond
$26 rotating roast specials

With so many cheap eats options in Melbourne it's not hard to eat out without breaking the bank