Salmon in Charleston

4 restaurants in Charleston list salmon on their menus. The cheapest is CO at $10.00, listed as SALMON*. The typical price across town is $26.00, and the dearest we found is $45.00 at Halls Chophouse, so the two ends of the list are $35.00 apart, which is 350% 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 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 Charleston is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 6 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 Savannah, about 89 mi away, where the best price is $28.00.

Where is the cheapest salmon in Charleston? CO, at $10.00 on 340 King Street. The same dish reaches $45.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $35.00.

What should salmon cost here? About $26.00 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 Savannah, about 89 mi away, where the best price is $28.00. That is $18.00 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.