Sweet Potato Fries in Seattle

6 restaurants in Seattle list sweet potato fries on their menus. The cheapest is Local Tide at $5.00. The typical price across town is $7.00, and the dearest we found is $13.00 at Jimmy's on Broadway, so the two ends of the list are $8.00 apart, which is 160% more for the same dish. Of the 6 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 2 charge more than a dollar over.

We track sweet potato fries in 71 other areas and compare them all on sweet potato fries across United States. The typical price there runs $7.25 at the median, so Seattle is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 36 of the 71. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Tavern in the Square in Woburn, MA, and the highest best price is $8.00 in Edina, MN. The nearest area with it is San Francisco, about 681 mi away, where the best price is $4.75.

Where is the cheapest sweet potato fries in Seattle? Local Tide, at $5.00 on 403 North 36th Street. The same dish reaches $13.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $8.00.

What should sweet potato fries cost here? About $7.00 is the typical price across the 6 kitchens in Seattle that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 are more than a dollar below that and 2 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 San Francisco, about 681 mi away, where the best price is $4.75. That is $0.25 less than the best here, though whether that is worth the journey is your call.

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.