Salmon in Needham

3 restaurants in Needham list salmon on their menus. The cheapest is Fuji Steakhouse at $8.95. The typical price across town is $15.00, and the dearest we found is $32.00 at Sweet Basil, so the two ends of the list are $23.05 apart, which is 258% more for the same dish. Of the 3 kitchens listed, 1 charges 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 salmon in 32 other areas and compare them all on salmon across United States. The typical price there runs $19.99 at the median, so Needham is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 20 of the 32. 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 Newport, about 56 mi away, where the best price is $16.00.

Where is the cheapest salmon in Needham? Fuji Steakhouse, at $8.95 on 1430 Highland Avenue. The same dish reaches $32.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $23.05.

What should salmon cost here? About $15.00 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Needham that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is 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 Newport, about 56 mi away, where the best price is $16.00. That is $7.05 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.