Salmon in Saint Louis

5 restaurants in Saint Louis list salmon on their menus. The cheapest is Sushi Koi at $4.50. The typical price across town is $12.00, and the dearest we found is $28.50 at Landry's Seafood House, so the two ends of the list are $24.00 apart, which is 533% 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 salmon in 32 other areas and compare them all on salmon across United States. The typical price there runs $19.99 at the median, so Saint Louis is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 26 of the 32. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Arashi Yama in Gainesville, FL, and the highest best price is $28.00 in Savannah, GA. The nearest area with it is Champaign, about 148 mi away, where the best price is $6.00.

Where is the cheapest salmon in Saint Louis? Sushi Koi, at $4.50 on 4 North Euclid Avenue. The same dish reaches $28.50 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $24.00.

What should salmon cost here? About $12.00 is the typical price across the 5 kitchens in Saint Louis 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 Champaign, about 148 mi away, where the best price is $6.00. That is $1.50 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.