Avocado Toast in Santa Monica

4 restaurants in Santa Monica list avocado toast on their menus. The cheapest is The Penthouse at $8.00. The typical price across town is $15.00, and the dearest we found is $18.00 at 1212 Santa Monica, so the two ends of the list are $10.00 apart, which is 125% more for the same dish. Of the 4 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 1 charges more than a dollar over.

We track avocado toast in 14 other areas and compare them all on avocado toast across United States. The typical price there runs $16.00 at the median, so Santa Monica is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 8 of the 14. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $8.00 at Lincoln Tavern & Restaurant in South Boston, MA, and the highest best price is $16.00 in Fort Lauderdale, FL. The nearest area with it is Scottsdale, about 393 mi away, where the best price is $9.00.

Where is the cheapest avocado toast in Santa Monica? The Penthouse, at $8.00 on 1111 2nd St. The same dish reaches $18.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $10.00.

What should avocado toast cost here? About $15.00 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Santa Monica 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 Scottsdale, about 393 mi away, where the best price is $9.00. 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.