Burrito in San Diego

15 restaurants in San Diego list burrito on their menus. The cheapest is Ramon's Taco Shop at $7.00, listed as Bean & Cheese Burrito. The typical price across town is $11.95, and the dearest we found is $24.00 at Hasta Mañana Cantina, so the two ends of the list are $17.00 apart, which is 243% more for the same dish. Of the 15 kitchens listed, 5 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 4 sit within a dollar of it and 6 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 San Diego is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 75 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 El Cajon, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $11.95.

Where is the cheapest burrito in San Diego? Ramon's Taco Shop, at $7.00 on 3951 Governor Dr. The same dish reaches $24.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $17.00.

What should burrito cost here? About $11.95 is the typical price across the 15 kitchens in San Diego that list it. Of the ones listed above, 5 are more than a dollar below that and 6 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 El Cajon, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $11.95. That is $4.95 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.