Salad in Somerville

27 restaurants in Somerville list salad on their menus. The cheapest is Five Horses at $4.00, listed as Fruit Salad. The typical price across town is $10.25, and the dearest we found is $17.00 at Machu Picchu, so the two ends of the list are $13.00 apart, which is 325% more for the same dish. Of the 27 kitchens listed, 6 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 12 sit within a dollar of it and 9 charge more than a dollar over.

We track salad in 1103 other areas and compare them all on salad across United States. The typical price there runs $9.50 at the median, so Somerville is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 333 of the 1103. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Kennedy Pizza & Fried Chicken in Newark, NJ, and the highest best price is $13.95 in Mount Sinai, NY. The nearest area with it is Cambridge, about 1 mi away, where the best price is $5.99.

Where is the cheapest salad in Somerville? Five Horses, at $4.00 on 400 Highland Avenue. The same dish reaches $17.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $13.00.

What should salad cost here? About $10.25 is the typical price across the 27 kitchens in Somerville that list it. Of the ones listed above, 6 are more than a dollar below that and 9 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 Cambridge, about 1 mi away, where the best price is $5.99. That is $1.99 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.