Shrimp in Las Vegas

10 restaurants in Las Vegas list shrimp on their menus. The cheapest is El Norte Taco Shop at $4.99. The typical price across town is $12.00, and the dearest we found is $21.00 at El Dorado Cantina, so the two ends of the list are $16.01 apart, which is 321% more for the same dish. Of the 10 kitchens listed, 4 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 4 charge more than a dollar over.

We track shrimp in 81 other areas and compare them all on shrimp across United States. The typical price there runs $15.95 at the median, so Las Vegas is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 57 of the 81. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Butterfly Belly Asian Cuisine in Portland, OR, and the highest best price is $19.50 in Revere, MA. The nearest area with it is Temecula, about 214 mi away, where the best price is $7.00.

Where is the cheapest shrimp in Las Vegas? El Norte Taco Shop, at $4.99 on 7540 Oso Blanca Road. The same dish reaches $21.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $16.01.

What should shrimp cost here? About $12.00 is the typical price across the 10 kitchens in Las Vegas that list it. Of the ones listed above, 4 are more than a dollar below that and 4 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 Temecula, about 214 mi away, where the best price is $7.00. That is $2.01 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.