Shrimp in Portland

5 restaurants in Portland list shrimp on their menus. The cheapest is Butterfly Belly Asian Cuisine at $4.00. The typical price across town is $9.90, and the dearest we found is $15.00 at Gino's, so the two ends of the list are $11.00 apart, which is 275% more for the same dish. Of the 5 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 1 sits within a dollar of it and 2 charge more than a dollar over.

We track shrimp in 81 other areas and compare them all on shrimp across United States. The typical price there runs $15.95 at the median, so Portland is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 72 of the 81. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.25 at Tokio in Denver, CO, and the highest best price is $19.50 in Revere, MA. The nearest area with it is Seattle, about 145 mi away, where the best price is $15.00.

Where is the cheapest shrimp in Portland? Butterfly Belly Asian Cuisine, at $4.00 on 323 Northwest Park Avenue. The same dish reaches $15.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $11.00.

What should shrimp cost here? About $9.90 is the typical price across the 5 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 Seattle, about 145 mi away, where the best price is $15.00. That is $11.00 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.