Huevos Rancheros in Santa Fe

3 restaurants in Santa Fe list huevos rancheros on their menus. The cheapest is Boxcar Santa Fe at $10.00. The typical price across town is $15.95, and the dearest we found is $22.00 at Escondido Santa Fe, so the two ends of the list are $12.00 apart, which is 120% 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 huevos rancheros in 3 other areas and compare them all on huevos rancheros across United States. The typical price there runs $16.49 at the median, so Santa Fe is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 2 of the 3. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $10.25 at Chef Zorba's Restaurant in Denver, CO, and the highest best price is $13.25 in Arlington, VA. The nearest area with it is Denver, about 289 mi away, where the best price is $10.25.

Where is the cheapest huevos rancheros in Santa Fe? Boxcar Santa Fe, at $10.00. The same dish reaches $22.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $12.00.

What should huevos rancheros cost here? About $15.95 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Santa Fe 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 Denver, about 289 mi away, where the best price is $10.25. That is $0.25 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.