Coconut Shrimp in Portland

4 restaurants in Portland list coconut shrimp on their menus. The cheapest is Thai Vintage PDX at $10.00. The typical price across town is $12.95, and the dearest we found is $20.25 at The Deck, so the two ends of the list are $10.25 apart, which is 102% 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 coconut shrimp in 5 other areas and compare them all on coconut shrimp across United States. The typical price there runs $14.99 at the median, so Portland is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 5 of the 5. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $7.00 at Plate Sushi & Chicken in Ann Arbor, MI, and the highest best price is $13.99 in Fort Lauderdale, FL. The nearest area with it is Ann Arbor, about 1931 mi away, where the best price is $7.00.

Where is the cheapest coconut shrimp in Portland? Thai Vintage PDX, at $10.00 on 601 Southeast Morrison Street. The same dish reaches $20.25 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $10.25.

What should coconut shrimp cost here? About $12.95 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Portland 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 Ann Arbor, about 1931 mi away, where the best price is $7.00. That is $3.00 less than the best here, though whether that is worth the journey is your call.

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.