Fish And Chips in South Boston

4 restaurants in South Boston list fish and chips on their menus. The cheapest is Yankee Lobster Eatery at $19.99, listed as Fish & Chips. The typical price across town is $23.00, and the dearest we found is $25.00 at Petula’s, so the two ends of the list are $5.01 apart, which is 25% more for the same dish. Of the 4 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 1 sits within a dollar of it and 1 charges more than a dollar over.

We track fish and chips in 13 other areas and compare them all on fish and chips across United States. The typical price there runs $20.00 at the median, so South Boston is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 2 of the 13. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $9.50 at Crave Grille in Vancouver, WA, and the highest best price is $22.00 in Long Beach, CA. The nearest area with it is Dorchester, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $15.00.

Where is the cheapest fish and chips in South Boston? Yankee Lobster Eatery, at $19.99 on 300 Northern Avenue. The same dish reaches $25.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $5.01.

What should fish and chips cost here? About $23.00 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in South Boston that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 are more than a dollar below that and 1 is 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 Dorchester, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $15.00. That is $4.99 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.