Steak Sandwich in Chicago

18 restaurants in Chicago list steak sandwich on their menus. The cheapest is Guerrero's Pizza at $6.00. The typical price across town is $11.75, and the dearest we found is $26.00 at Le Sud, so the two ends of the list are $20.00 apart, which is 333% more for the same dish. Of the 18 kitchens listed, 7 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 3 sit within a dollar of it and 8 charge more than a dollar over.

We track steak sandwich in 9 other areas and compare them all on steak sandwich across United States. The typical price there runs $11.37 at the median, so Chicago is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 4 of the 9. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $7.92 at Camila's Kitchen in Trenton, NJ, and the highest best price is $15.99 in Saint Louis, MO. The nearest area with it is Saint Louis, about 259 mi away, where the best price is $15.99.

Where is the cheapest steak sandwich in Chicago? Guerrero's Pizza, at $6.00 on 2024 S California Ave. The same dish reaches $26.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $20.00.

What should steak sandwich cost here? About $11.75 is the typical price across the 18 kitchens in Chicago that list it. Of the ones listed above, 7 are more than a dollar below that and 8 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 Saint Louis, about 259 mi away, where the best price is $15.99. That is $9.99 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.