Pad Thai in Montclair

4 restaurants in Montclair list pad thai on their menus. The cheapest is Kai Yang at $11.00. The typical price across town is $16.95, and the dearest we found is $17.95 at Charm Thai Cuisine, so the two ends of the list are $6.95 apart, which is 63% more for the same dish. Of the 4 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 0 charge more than a dollar over.

We track pad thai in 2 other areas and compare them all on pad thai across United States. The typical price there runs $16.50 at the median, so Montclair is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 0 of the 2. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $10.50 at Full Moon Thai in Portland, OR, and the highest best price is $12.00 in Salt Lake City, UT. The nearest area with it is Salt Lake City, about 1957 mi away, where the best price is $12.00.

Where is the cheapest pad thai in Montclair? Kai Yang, at $11.00 on 345 Bloomfield Avenue. The same dish reaches $17.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $6.95.

What should pad thai cost here? About $16.95 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Montclair that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 are more than a dollar below that and 0 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 Salt Lake City, about 1957 mi away, where the best price is $12.00. That is $1.00 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.