Calamari in Seattle

21 restaurants in Seattle list calamari on their menus. The cheapest is Umi Sake House at $9.00, listed as crispy calamari. The typical price across town is $15.00, and the dearest we found is $20.50 at Palisade, so the two ends of the list are $11.50 apart, which is 128% more for the same dish. Of the 21 kitchens listed, 8 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 5 sit within a dollar of it and 8 charge more than a dollar over.

We track calamari in 493 other areas and compare them all on calamari across United States. The typical price there runs $15.45 at the median, so Seattle is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 255 of the 493. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.50 at French Quarter Grille in Austin, TX, and the highest best price is $19.75 in Harwood Heights, IL. The nearest area with it is Edmonds, about 13 mi away, where the best price is $15.00.

Where is the cheapest calamari in Seattle? Umi Sake House, at $9.00 on 2230 1st Avenue. The same dish reaches $20.50 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $11.50.

What should calamari cost here? About $15.00 is the typical price across the 21 kitchens in Seattle that list it. Of the ones listed above, 8 are more than a dollar below that and 8 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 Edmonds, about 13 mi away, where the best price is $15.00. That is $6.00 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.