Steak Tips in Boston

9 restaurants in Boston list steak tips on their menus. The cheapest is Sauce on Bowdoin at $15.00. The typical price across town is $18.00, and the dearest we found is $30.00 at Tip Tap Room, so the two ends of the list are $15.00 apart, which is 100% more for the same dish. Of the 9 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 3 sit within a dollar of it and 4 charge more than a dollar over.

We track steak tips in 18 other areas and compare them all on steak tips across United States. The typical price there runs $20.61 at the median, so Boston is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 16 of the 18. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $6.99 at Flo's Pizza & Roast Beef in Brockton, MA, and the highest best price is $19.99 in Lowell, MA. The nearest area with it is Dorchester, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $19.50.

Where is the cheapest steak tips in Boston? Sauce on Bowdoin, at $15.00 on 203 Bowdoin St. The same dish reaches $30.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $15.00.

What should steak tips cost here? About $18.00 is the typical price across the 9 kitchens in Boston that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 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 $19.50. That is $4.50 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.