Nachos in Los Angeles

8 restaurants in Los Angeles list nachos on their menus. The cheapest is Andy's Pizzeria Mexican Food at $6.49, listed as Chicken Nachos. The typical price across town is $12.95, and the dearest we found is $18.00 at Casita del Campo, so the two ends of the list are $11.51 apart, which is 177% more for the same dish. Of the 8 kitchens listed, 3 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 3 charge more than a dollar over.

We track nachos in 74 other areas and compare them all on nachos across United States. The typical price there runs $12.75 at the median, so Los Angeles is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 35 of the 74. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $5.29 at Fat Cats in Westminster, CO, and the highest best price is $13.89 in Spokane, WA. The nearest area with it is Riverside, about 58 mi away, where the best price is $10.00.

Where is the cheapest nachos in Los Angeles? Andy's Pizzeria Mexican Food, at $6.49 on 6700 S Central Ave. The same dish reaches $18.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $11.51.

What should nachos cost here? About $12.95 is the typical price across the 8 kitchens in Los Angeles that list it. Of the ones listed above, 3 are more than a dollar below that and 3 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 Riverside, about 58 mi away, where the best price is $10.00. That is $3.51 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.