Salmon in Atlanta

5 restaurants in Atlanta list salmon on their menus. The cheapest is Little Azios at $8.00. The typical price across town is $17.49, and the dearest we found is $34.00 at Porfirio's Mexican Bar & Grill, so the two ends of the list are $26.00 apart, which is 325% more for the same dish. Of the 5 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 1 sits within a dollar of it and 2 charge more than a dollar over.

We track salmon in 33 other areas and compare them all on salmon across United States. The typical price there runs $19.99 at the median, so Atlanta is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 19 of the 33. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Arashi Yama in Gainesville, FL, and the highest best price is $28.00 in Savannah, GA. The nearest area with it is Spartanburg, about 167 mi away, where the best price is $12.00.

Where is the cheapest salmon in Atlanta? Little Azios, at $8.00 on 749 Moreland Avenue. The same dish reaches $34.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $26.00.

What should salmon cost here? About $17.49 is the typical price across the 5 kitchens in Atlanta that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 are more than a dollar below that and 2 are more than a dollar above, so the typical price is a middle rather than a floor.

Is it cheaper nearby? The nearest area we track it in is Spartanburg, about 167 mi away, where the best price is $12.00. That is $4.00 more than the best price here.

Why do the prices differ so much? We compare what each menu calls the same dish, and menus are not identical: portion, cut, sides and the kind of room you are sitting in all ride on the price, and none of that shows up in a number. Part portions and half sizes are kept out of this comparison, and a chain charging the same at several addresses is counted once, so the spread above is between genuinely different kitchens rather than the same one repeated.