Cheap Eats

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