Steak in New Orleans

4 restaurants in New Orleans list steak on their menus. The cheapest is Galaxie Tacos at $12.00. The typical price across town is $18.00, and the dearest we found is $33.00 at The Bell, so the two ends of the list are $21.00 apart, which is 175% 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 steak in 8 other areas and compare them all on steak across United States. The typical price there runs $14.99 at the median, so New Orleans is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 1 of the 8. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $5.00 at Square One Bar & Grill in Danbury, CT, and the highest best price is $15.99 in Gainesville, FL. The nearest area with it is Gainesville, about 458 mi away, where the best price is $15.99.

Where is the cheapest steak in New Orleans? Galaxie Tacos, at $12.00 on 3060 Saint Claude Avenue. The same dish reaches $33.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $21.00.

What should steak cost here? About $18.00 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in New Orleans 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 Gainesville, about 458 mi away, where the best price is $15.99. That is $3.99 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.