Burrito in Portland

13 restaurants in Portland list burrito on their menus. The cheapest is Pepino's at $6.35, listed as Bean & Cheese Burrito. The typical price across town is $12.00, and the dearest we found is $18.00 at Harney Street Cafe, so the two ends of the list are $11.65 apart, which is 183% more for the same dish. Of the 13 kitchens listed, 6 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 5 charge more than a dollar over.

We track burrito in 104 other areas and compare them all on burrito across United States. The typical price there runs $13.00 at the median, so Portland is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 68 of the 104. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.15 at La Fiesta in Springfield, IL, and the highest best price is $16.63 in Santa Monica, CA. The nearest area with it is Renton, about 136 mi away, where the best price is $14.00.

Where is the cheapest burrito in Portland? Pepino's, at $6.35 on 914 Northwest 23rd Avenue. The same dish reaches $18.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $11.65.

What should burrito cost here? About $12.00 is the typical price across the 13 kitchens in Portland that list it. Of the ones listed above, 6 are more than a dollar below that and 5 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 Renton, about 136 mi away, where the best price is $14.00. That is $7.65 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.