Nachos in Boston

6 restaurants in Boston list nachos on their menus. The cheapest is Loco Taqueria & Oyster Bar at $8.00. The typical price across town is $13.99, and the dearest we found is $22.99 at The Bell in Hand, so the two ends of the list are $14.99 apart, which is 187% more for the same dish. Of the 6 kitchens listed, 3 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 nachos in 74 other areas and compare them all on nachos across United States. The typical price there runs $12.75 at the median, so Boston is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 21 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 South Boston, about 0 mi away, where the best price is $9.99.

Where is the cheapest nachos in Boston? Loco Taqueria & Oyster Bar, at $8.00 on 61 Brookline Avenue. The same dish reaches $22.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $14.99.

What should nachos cost here? About $13.99 is the typical price across the 6 kitchens in Boston that list it. Of the ones listed above, 3 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 South Boston, about 0 mi away, where the best price is $9.99. That is $1.99 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.