Fried Chicken Sandwich in Portland

4 restaurants in Portland list fried chicken sandwich on their menus. The cheapest is Basilisk at $13.00. The typical price across town is $16.00, and the dearest we found is $19.00 at Besaws, so the two ends of the list are $6.00 apart, which is 46% more for the same dish. Of the 4 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 1 charges more than a dollar over.

We track fried chicken sandwich in 9 other areas and compare them all on fried chicken sandwich across United States. The typical price there runs $18.00 at the median, so Portland is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 6 of the 9. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $8.99 at Sauce on Bowdoin in Boston, MA, and the highest best price is $16.50 in Houston, TX. The nearest area with it is San Francisco, about 537 mi away, where the best price is $13.00.

Where is the cheapest fried chicken sandwich in Portland? Basilisk, at $13.00 on 820 Northeast 27th Avenue. The same dish reaches $19.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $6.00.

What should fried chicken sandwich cost here? About $16.00 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Portland 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 San Francisco, about 537 mi away, where the best price is $13.00. 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.