Onion Rings in Portland

6 restaurants in Portland list onion rings on their menus. The cheapest is Marco's Cafe at $6.50. The typical price across town is $8.00, and the dearest we found is $15.00 at Huber's, so the two ends of the list are $8.50 apart, which is 131% more for the same dish. Of the 6 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 4 sit within a dollar of it and 1 charges more than a dollar over.

We track onion rings in 502 other areas and compare them all on onion rings across United States. The typical price there runs $7.95 at the median, so Portland is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 159 of the 502. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Lucky's Burger and Brews in Marietta, GA, and the highest best price is $11.00 in Bellevue, WA. The nearest area with it is Bellevue, about 145 mi away, where the best price is $11.00.

Where is the cheapest onion rings in Portland? Marco's Cafe, at $6.50 on 7910 Southwest 35th Avenue. The same dish reaches $15.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $8.50.

What should onion rings cost here? About $8.00 is the typical price across the 6 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 Bellevue, about 145 mi away, where the best price is $11.00. That is $4.50 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.