Caesar in Portland

7 restaurants in Portland list caesar on their menus. The cheapest is Bistro 23 at $7.00. The typical price across town is $12.00, and the dearest we found is $16.00 at a Cena Ristorante, so the two ends of the list are $9.00 apart, which is 129% more for the same dish. Of the 7 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 3 sit within a dollar of it and 2 charge more than a dollar over.

We track caesar in 13 other areas and compare them all on caesar 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 8 of the 13. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $6.00 at Bourbon's Craft Kitchen & Bar in Cincinnati, OH, and the highest best price is $13.00 in Atlanta, GA. The nearest area with it is Denver, about 987 mi away, where the best price is $8.00.

Where is the cheapest caesar in Portland? Bistro 23, at $7.00 on 5530 Northeast 122nd Avenue. The same dish reaches $16.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $9.00.

What should caesar cost here? About $12.00 is the typical price across the 7 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 Denver, about 987 mi away, where the best price is $8.00. That is $1.00 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.