Nachos in Portland

8 restaurants in Portland list nachos on their menus. The cheapest is Space Room Lounge at $7.28. The typical price across town is $12.00, and the dearest we found is $14.75 at Los Bros Taco Shop, so the two ends of the list are $7.47 apart, which is 103% more for the same dish. Of the 8 kitchens listed, 4 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 2 charge more than a dollar over.

We track nachos in 74 other areas and compare them all on nachos across United States. The typical price there runs $12.95 at the median, so Portland is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 44 of the 74. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $5.29 at Fat Cats in Westminster, CO, and the highest best price is $13.89 in Spokane, WA. The nearest area with it is Olympia, about 105 mi away, where the best price is $9.00.

Where is the cheapest nachos in Portland? Space Room Lounge, at $7.28. The same dish reaches $14.75 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $7.47.

What should nachos cost here? About $12.00 is the typical price across the 8 kitchens in Portland that list it. Of the ones listed above, 4 are more than a dollar below that and 2 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 Olympia, about 105 mi away, where the best price is $9.00. That is $1.72 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.