Burrito in Seattle

14 restaurants in Seattle list burrito on their menus. The cheapest is La Conasupo at $6.79. The typical price across town is $15.00, and the dearest we found is $21.00 at Otter Bar and Burger, so the two ends of the list are $14.21 apart, which is 209% more for the same dish. Of the 14 kitchens listed, 4 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 6 sit within a dollar of it and 4 charge more than a dollar over.

We track burrito in 104 other areas and compare them all on burrito across United States. The typical price there runs $13.00 at the median, so Seattle is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 22 of the 104. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.15 at La Fiesta in Springfield, IL, and the highest best price is $16.63 in Santa Monica, CA. The nearest area with it is Renton, about 13 mi away, where the best price is $14.00.

Where is the cheapest burrito in Seattle? La Conasupo, at $6.79 on 8532 Greenwood Avenue North. The same dish reaches $21.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $14.21.

What should burrito cost here? About $15.00 is the typical price across the 14 kitchens in Seattle that list it. Of the ones listed above, 4 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 Renton, about 13 mi away, where the best price is $14.00. That is $7.21 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.