Nachos in Seattle

10 restaurants in Seattle list nachos on their menus. The cheapest is La Conasupo at $8.79. The typical price across town is $15.00, and the dearest we found is $21.75 at Buckley's, so the two ends of the list are $12.96 apart, which is 147% more for the same dish. Of the 10 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 4 sit within a dollar of it and 4 charge more than a dollar over.

We track nachos in 74 other areas and compare them all on nachos across United States. The typical price there runs $12.75 at the median, so Seattle is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 4 of the 74. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $5.29 at Fat Cats in Westminster, CO, and the highest best price is $13.89 in Spokane, WA. The nearest area with it is Olympia, about 49 mi away, where the best price is $9.00.

Where is the cheapest nachos in Seattle? La Conasupo, at $8.79 on 8532 Greenwood Avenue North. The same dish reaches $21.75 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $12.96.

What should nachos cost here? About $15.00 is the typical price across the 10 kitchens in Seattle that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 are more than a dollar below that and 4 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 Olympia, about 49 mi away, where the best price is $9.00. That is $0.21 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.