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Cheap eats miami — Cheap eats in Miami: what fifteen dollars buys right now
Counters beat dining rooms on price in Miami: a 1979 frita counter, a sandwich window open until 5 am, and a fish market grill where chowder is $6 and coffee is $3.

Counters beat dining rooms on price in Miami: a 1979 frita counter, a sandwich window open until 5 am, and a fish market grill where chowder is $6 and coffee is $3.

Miami's after-midnight map is short but real: a 24-hour weekend diner on South Beach and Calle Ocho's Cuban counters running to 1 a.m. or later. The hours, addresses and orders that hold up.

The best Miami dining rarely comes with an ocean view. Three mainland rooms, from a Calle Ocho coffee window to a Miami River fish market, show where the city eats when it is not performing.

How to tell the two scenes apart, what each does best, and how to order like you've lived here longer than you have.