Steak in Tucson

3 restaurants in Tucson list steak on their menus. The cheapest is Elliott's at $7.00. The typical price across town is $12.95, and the dearest we found is $15.99 at Great Wall China, so the two ends of the list are $8.99 apart, which is 128% more for the same dish. Of the 3 kitchens listed, 1 charges 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 steak in 8 other areas and compare them all on steak across United States. The typical price there runs $17.00 at the median, so Tucson is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 6 of the 8. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $5.00 at Square One Bar & Grill in Danbury, CT, and the highest best price is $15.99 in Gainesville, FL. The nearest area with it is Temecula, about 373 mi away, where the best price is $9.00.

Where is the cheapest steak in Tucson? Elliott's, at $7.00. The same dish reaches $15.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $8.99.

What should steak cost here? About $12.95 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Tucson that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is 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 Temecula, about 373 mi away, where the best price is $9.00. That is $2.00 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.