Pad Thai in Salt Lake City

3 restaurants in Salt Lake City list pad thai on their menus. The cheapest is Indochine Vietnamese Bistro at $12.00. The typical price across town is $15.50, and the dearest we found is $16.95 at Sawadee 2Go, so the two ends of the list are $4.95 apart, which is 41% more for the same dish. Of the 3 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 1 sits within a dollar of it and 1 charges more than a dollar over.

We track pad thai in 2 other areas and compare them all on pad thai across United States. The typical price there runs $16.95 at the median, so Salt Lake City is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 2 of the 2. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $10.50 at Full Moon Thai in Portland, OR, and the highest best price is $11.00 in Montclair, NJ. The nearest area with it is Portland, about 633 mi away, where the best price is $10.50.

Where is the cheapest pad thai in Salt Lake City? Indochine Vietnamese Bistro, at $12.00 on 230 1300 East. The same dish reaches $16.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $4.95.

What should pad thai cost here? About $15.50 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Salt Lake City that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is more than a dollar below that and 1 is 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 Portland, about 633 mi away, where the best price is $10.50. That is $1.50 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.