Salmon in Denver

4 restaurants in Denver list salmon on their menus. The cheapest is Tokio at $4.25. The typical price across town is $8.00, and the dearest we found is $9.00 at Chopper's Sports Grill, so the two ends of the list are $4.75 apart, which is 112% more for the same dish. Of the 4 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 3 sit within a dollar of it and 0 charge 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 $19.99 at the median, so Denver is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 30 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 Kansas City, about 550 mi away, where the best price is $6.75.

Where is the cheapest salmon in Denver? Tokio, at $4.25 on 2907 Huron Street. The same dish reaches $9.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $4.75.

What should salmon cost here? About $8.00 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Denver that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is more than a dollar below that and 0 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 Kansas City, about 550 mi away, where the best price is $6.75. That is $2.50 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.