Salmon in Babylon

3 restaurants in Babylon list salmon on their menus. The cheapest is Tres Palms at $14.00. The typical price across town is $32.00, and the dearest we found is $39.00 at The Argyle, so the two ends of the list are $25.00 apart, which is 179% 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 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 Babylon is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 1 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 Port Jefferson, about 22 mi away, where the best price is $15.00.

Where is the cheapest salmon in Babylon? Tres Palms, at $14.00 on 16 East Ct. The same dish reaches $39.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $25.00.

What should salmon cost here? About $32.00 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Babylon 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 Port Jefferson, about 22 mi away, where the best price is $15.00. That is $1.00 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.