Cheap Eats

Griddle toast logs with cream cheese filling; a trio of flavorful and innovative tacos; decadent chocolate chip cookie dough; a belly full of wings; Ali gets a line on a spot that's serving up some of the locals' favorites.

Ali Khan finds the best food deals in Cleveland, including flapjacks topped with white chocolate mole and meat-stuffed cabbage rolls.

Ali begins his day in Louisville, Ky., by cutting into a towering stack of hot chocolate pancakes; a saucy Mata Hari hot brown; apple brandied pie; Southern fried chicken and sweet potato waffles.

Ali visits Indianapolis and tries a decadent sourdough sugar pearl waffle breakfast and enjoys a house-cured sausage sandwich for lunch; a vegan key-lime cheesecake; a breaded pork tenderloin sandwich.

Ali Khan chows down in Ann Arbor, Mich., starting with a heaping helping of deep-fried French toast covered in berries and whipped cream; blackened mackerel with a Thai chili glaze at a super fresh seafood market.

A protein waffle loaded with house-smoked pork, sausage and caramelized onions; a gourmet cafeteria for a turkey, chicken and duck sandwich; the trifecta of ooey-gooey butter cookies; a spicy and sweet coconut Panang curry.

Ali's search for the best deals in Bozeman, Mont., begins with farm-to-table fresh benedict and summer sausage before trying a made-from-scratch elk burger; Ali discovers a huckleberry bar and sinks his teeth into a bison pepperoni pizza.

Ali visits Charlottesville, Va. for breakfast, lunch, dinner and a snack; college town food has never tasted so good as Ali starts with a breakfast bagel chock full of deli meat.

In Cincinnati, Ohio, Ali hits the ground running with a fancy French puff pastry and goetta breakfast, before digging into a 5-way with Cincinnati-style chili; Ali enjoys lemon ricotta cake and devours decadent whiskey barbeque bacon burger.

Ali dives into a delectable Portuguese sweet bread French toast; he then sinks his teeth into a classic meatball sub from a landmark Providence sandwich shop; then Ali gets his seafood on with a Quahog clam and chorizo.

Ali Khan is in Santa Barbara, Calif. looking for the best deals for breakfast, lunch, dinner and a snack; he gets off to a pricey start with a bacon and egg breakfast sandwich on a buttery brioche that's worth every penny.

A classic Southern haystack piled high with cheesy grits, hash browns and salsa; lunch gets explosive at Betty Bombers with the juicy and spicy Fire in the Hole burger.