Side Salad in Portland

4 restaurants in Portland list side salad on their menus. The cheapest is Old Pal at $6.00. The typical price across town is $7.99, and the dearest we found is $8.00 at Mayrose, so the two ends of the list are $2.00 apart, which is 33% more for the same dish. Of the 4 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 3 sit within a dollar of it and 0 charge more than a dollar over.

We track side salad in 27 other areas and compare them all on side salad across United States. The typical price there runs $6.00 at the median, so Portland is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 2 of the 27. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Giuseppe's Cafe in Birmingham, AL, and the highest best price is $7.00 in Dorchester, MA. The nearest area with it is Las Vegas, about 755 mi away, where the best price is $4.25.

Where is the cheapest side salad in Portland? Old Pal, at $6.00 on 3350 Southeast Morrison Street. The same dish reaches $8.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $2.00.

What should side salad cost here? About $7.99 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Portland that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is more than a dollar below that and 0 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 Las Vegas, about 755 mi away, where the best price is $4.25. That is $1.75 less than the best here, though whether that is worth the journey is your call.

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.