Nachos in Austin

3 restaurants in Austin list nachos on their menus. The cheapest is El Chile Cafe Y Cantina at $10.00. The typical price across town is $11.29, and the dearest we found is $13.50 at The Omelettry, so the two ends of the list are $3.50 apart, which is 35% more for the same dish. Of the 3 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 1 sits within a dollar of it and 1 charges more than a dollar over.

We track nachos in 74 other areas and compare them all on nachos across United States. The typical price there runs $12.95 at the median, so Austin is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 58 of the 74. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $5.29 at Fat Cats in Westminster, CO, and the highest best price is $13.89 in Spokane, WA. The nearest area with it is San Antonio, about 72 mi away, where the best price is $10.99.

Where is the cheapest nachos in Austin? El Chile Cafe Y Cantina, at $10.00 on 1809 Manor Road. The same dish reaches $13.50 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $3.50.

What should nachos cost here? About $11.29 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Austin that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is more than a dollar below that and 1 is 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 San Antonio, about 72 mi away, where the best price is $10.99. That is $0.99 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.