Salmon in Minneapolis

7 restaurants in Minneapolis list salmon on their menus. The cheapest is Minari at $9.00. The typical price across town is $19.99, and the dearest we found is $29.00 at Saint Genevieve, so the two ends of the list are $20.00 apart, which is 222% more for the same dish. Of the 7 kitchens listed, 3 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 1 sits within a dollar of it and 3 charge more than a dollar over.

We track salmon in 33 other areas and compare them all on salmon across United States. The typical price there runs $18.00 at the median, so Minneapolis is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 16 of the 33. 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 Edina, about 6 mi away, where the best price is $13.00.

Where is the cheapest salmon in Minneapolis? Minari, at $9.00 on 323 Northeast 13th Avenue. The same dish reaches $29.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $20.00.

What should salmon cost here? About $19.99 is the typical price across the 7 kitchens in Minneapolis 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 Edina, about 6 mi away, where the best price is $13.00. That is $4.00 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.