Fish Sandwich in Boston

9 restaurants in Boston list fish sandwich on their menus. The cheapest is Sauce on Bowdoin at $8.00. The typical price across town is $12.99, and the dearest we found is $20.00 at North End Lobster Co, so the two ends of the list are $12.00 apart, which is 150% more for the same dish. Of the 9 kitchens listed, 3 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 4 charge more than a dollar over.

We track fish sandwich in 14 other areas and compare them all on fish sandwich across United States. The typical price there runs $10.00 at the median, so Boston is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 4 of the 14. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.99 at Mayback's Pizza & Subs in Buffalo, NY, and the highest best price is $9.99 in Syracuse, NY. The nearest area with it is Dorchester, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $7.00.

Where is the cheapest fish sandwich in Boston? Sauce on Bowdoin, at $8.00 on 203 Bowdoin St. The same dish reaches $20.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $12.00.

What should fish sandwich cost here? About $12.99 is the typical price across the 9 kitchens in Boston that list it. Of the ones listed above, 3 are more than a dollar below that and 4 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 Dorchester, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $7.00. That is $1.00 less than the best here, though whether that is worth the journey is your call.

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.