Burrito in New York

75 restaurants in New York list burrito on their menus, and the 40 cheapest are listed above. The cheapest is Johnny's Pizza Diner at $6.75, listed as Breakfast Burrito. The typical price across town is $14.00, and the dearest of the 40 listed is $14.00 at La Amistad, so the two ends of the list are $7.25 apart, which is 107% more for the same dish. Of the 40 kitchens listed, 25 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 15 sit within a dollar of it and 0 charge more than a dollar over.

We track burrito in 104 other areas and compare them all on burrito across United States. The typical price there runs $13.00 at the median, so New York is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 36 of the 104. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.15 at La Fiesta in Springfield, IL, and the highest best price is $16.63 in Santa Monica, CA. The nearest area with it is Hackensack, about 14 mi away, where the best price is $11.00.

Where is the cheapest burrito in New York? Johnny's Pizza Diner, at $6.75 on 535 E 180th St. The same dish reaches $14.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $7.25.

What should burrito cost here? About $14.00 is the typical price across the 75 kitchens in New York that list it. Of the ones listed above, 25 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 Hackensack, about 14 mi away, where the best price is $11.00. That is $4.25 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.