Grab a bite with the artsy crowd at this cafeteria at the Academy of Fine Arts, even if you’re not a student. Meals are warm and surprisingly decent, like a millet and cheese casserole for 3.90 euros or a hearty beef stew for 4.20 euros, and you can top it off with a bowl of soup for just 60 cents. Set in the historical building by Theophil Hansen, this small and sleek caf’s more interesting than most, and by that we also mean the sculpture students dusting off their overalls, media artists eating over their MacBooks, and the art theorists looking—how else?—slightly bewildered.

Money saved, you could even splurge on a post-meal coffee at the Le Meridien hotel across Schillerplatz that will set you back more than your entire lunch.