Burrito in Los Angeles

11 restaurants in Los Angeles list burrito on their menus. The cheapest is Asparagus Pizza at $7.43, listed as Bean & Cheese Burrito. The typical price across town is $12.99, and the dearest we found is $18.00 at Belles Beach House, so the two ends of the list are $10.57 apart, which is 142% more for the same dish. Of the 11 kitchens listed, 4 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 3 sit within a dollar of it and 4 charge more than a dollar over.

We track burrito in 106 other areas and compare them all on burrito across United States. The typical price there runs $13.00 at the median, so Los Angeles is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 57 of the 106. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.15 at La Fiesta in Springfield, IL, and the highest best price is $16.63 in Santa Monica, CA. The nearest area with it is Culver City, about 4 mi away, where the best price is $8.99.

Where is the cheapest burrito in Los Angeles? Asparagus Pizza, at $7.43 on 1809 N Cahuenga Blvd. The same dish reaches $18.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $10.57.

What should burrito cost here? About $12.99 is the typical price across the 11 kitchens in Los Angeles 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 Culver City, about 4 mi away, where the best price is $8.99. That is $1.56 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.