Edamame in Portland

6 restaurants in Portland list edamame on their menus. The cheapest is Fat Kitty Ramen at $4.00. The typical price across town is $6.12, and the dearest we found is $9.00 at Departure, so the two ends of the list are $5.00 apart, which is 125% more for the same dish. Of the 6 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 3 sit within a dollar of it and 1 charges more than a dollar over.

We track edamame in 13 other areas and compare them all on edamame across United States. The typical price there runs $6.00 at the median, so Portland is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 6 of the 13. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Shiku in Seattle, WA, and the highest best price is $5.50 in Naples, FL. The nearest area with it is Seattle, about 145 mi away, where the best price is $4.00.

Where is the cheapest edamame in Portland? Fat Kitty Ramen, at $4.00 on 7847 Southwest Capitol Highway. The same dish reaches $9.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $5.00.

What should edamame cost here? About $6.12 is the typical price across the 6 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 Seattle, about 145 mi away, where the best price is $4.00. That is the same as 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.