Avocado Toast in Charleston

4 restaurants in Charleston list avocado toast on their menus. The cheapest is Mercantile & Mash at $13.00. The typical price across town is $17.00, and the dearest we found is $20.00 at Little Palm, so the two ends of the list are $7.00 apart, which is 54% 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 avocado toast in 14 other areas and compare them all on avocado toast across United States. The typical price there runs $15.95 at the median, so Charleston is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 0 of the 14. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $8.00 at The Penthouse in Santa Monica, CA, and the highest best price is $16.00 in Fort Lauderdale, FL. The nearest area with it is Atlanta, about 269 mi away, where the best price is $10.99.

Where is the cheapest avocado toast in Charleston? Mercantile & Mash, at $13.00 on 701 East Bay Street. The same dish reaches $20.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $7.00.

What should avocado toast cost here? About $17.00 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Charleston 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 Atlanta, about 269 mi away, where the best price is $10.99. That is $2.01 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.