Mac And Cheese in Nashville

4 restaurants in Nashville list mac and cheese on their menus. The cheapest is Vegelicious at $5.00. The typical price across town is $7.00, and the dearest we found is $9.00 at Stateside Kitchen, so the two ends of the list are $4.00 apart, which is 80% more for the same dish. Of the 4 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 1 sits within a dollar of it and 1 charges more than a dollar over.

We track mac and cheese in 4 other areas and compare them all on mac and cheese across United States. The typical price there runs $14.95 at the median, so Nashville is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 4 of the 4. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $6.29 at Rusty Bucket Restaurant and Tavern in Cincinnati, OH, and the highest best price is $12.00 in Minneapolis, MN. The nearest area with it is Cincinnati, about 242 mi away, where the best price is $6.29.

Where is the cheapest mac and cheese in Nashville? Vegelicious, at $5.00 on 513 Fisk Street. The same dish reaches $9.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $4.00.

What should mac and cheese cost here? About $7.00 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Nashville that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 are more than a dollar below that and 1 is 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 Cincinnati, about 242 mi away, where the best price is $6.29. That is $1.29 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.