Salmon in Austin

4 restaurants in Austin list salmon on their menus. The cheapest is Maki Toki at $7.99. The typical price across town is $22.00, and the dearest we found is $26.00 at Milano Cafe, so the two ends of the list are $18.01 apart, which is 225% more for the same dish. Of the 4 kitchens listed, 2 charge 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 salmon in 32 other areas and compare them all on salmon across United States. The typical price there runs $18.00 at the median, so Austin is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 10 of the 32. 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 Plano, about 202 mi away, where the best price is $17.95.

Where is the cheapest salmon in Austin? Maki Toki, at $7.99 on 1910 W Braker Ln. The same dish reaches $26.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $18.01.

What should salmon cost here? About $22.00 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Austin that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 are 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 Plano, about 202 mi away, where the best price is $17.95. That is $9.96 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.