Salad in Dorchester

15 restaurants in Dorchester list salad on their menus. The cheapest is Raymundo Bakery & Taqueria at $5.85, listed as Macaroni Salad. The typical price across town is $11.99, and the dearest we found is $19.00 at Victory Point Bar & Grill, so the two ends of the list are $13.15 apart, which is 225% more for the same dish. Of the 15 kitchens listed, 3 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 6 sit within a dollar of it and 6 charge more than a dollar over.

We track salad in 1106 other areas and compare them all on salad across United States. The typical price there runs $9.50 at the median, so Dorchester is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 91 of the 1106. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Kennedy Pizza & Fried Chicken in Newark, NJ, and the highest best price is $13.95 in Mount Sinai, NY. The nearest area with it is Jamaica Plain, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $7.00.

Where is the cheapest salad in Dorchester? Raymundo Bakery & Taqueria, at $5.85 on 1224 Dorchester Ave. The same dish reaches $19.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $13.15.

What should salad cost here? About $11.99 is the typical price across the 15 kitchens in Dorchester that list it. Of the ones listed above, 3 are more than a dollar below that and 6 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 Jamaica Plain, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $7.00. That is $1.15 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.