Pad Thai in Portland

5 restaurants in Portland list pad thai on their menus. The cheapest is Full Moon Thai at $10.50. The typical price across town is $16.50, and the dearest we found is $20.95 at Farmhouse Kitchen, so the two ends of the list are $10.45 apart, which is 100% more for the same dish. Of the 5 kitchens listed, 1 charges 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 pad thai in 2 other areas and compare them all on pad thai across United States. The typical price there runs $16.95 at the median, so Portland is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 1 of the 2. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $11.00 at Kai Yang in Montclair, NJ, and the highest best price is $12.00 in Salt Lake City, UT. The nearest area with it is Salt Lake City, about 633 mi away, where the best price is $12.00.

Where is the cheapest pad thai in Portland? Full Moon Thai, at $10.50 on 3445 Northeast Broadway. The same dish reaches $20.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $10.45.

What should pad thai cost here? About $16.50 is the typical price across the 5 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 Salt Lake City, about 633 mi away, where the best price is $12.00. That is $1.50 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.