Reuben in Portland

6 restaurants in Portland list reuben on their menus. The cheapest is Airport Cafe at $10.00. The typical price across town is $16.64, and the dearest we found is $20.00 at Paddy's Bar & Grill, so the two ends of the list are $10.00 apart, which is 100% more for the same dish. Of the 6 kitchens listed, 2 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 reuben in 10 other areas and compare them all on reuben across United States. The typical price there runs $16.00 at the median, so Portland is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 4 of the 10. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $12.95 at Six Pence Pub in Savannah, GA, and the highest best price is $16.50 in Madison, WI. The nearest area with it is Tacoma, about 119 mi away, where the best price is $14.95.

Where is the cheapest reuben in Portland? Airport Cafe, at $10.00 on 6135 Northeast 80th Avenue. The same dish reaches $20.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $10.00.

What should reuben cost here? About $16.64 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 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 Tacoma, about 119 mi away, where the best price is $14.95. That is $4.95 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.