Edamame in Washington

11 restaurants in Washington list edamame on their menus. The cheapest is Sushi Hachi at $5.00. The typical price across town is $6.50, and the dearest we found is $10.00 at Izakaya, so the two ends of the list are $5.00 apart, which is 100% more for the same dish. Of the 11 kitchens listed, 1 charges 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 edamame in 13 other areas and compare them all on edamame across United States. The typical price there runs $6.00 at the median, so Washington is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 5 of the 13. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Shiku in Seattle, WA, and the highest best price is $5.50 in Naples, FL. The nearest area with it is Montclair, about 199 mi away, where the best price is $5.50.

Where is the cheapest edamame in Washington? Sushi Hachi, at $5.00 on 735 8th Street Southeast. The same dish reaches $10.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $5.00.

What should edamame cost here? About $6.50 is the typical price across the 11 kitchens in Washington that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is 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 Montclair, about 199 mi away, where the best price is $5.50. That is $0.50 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.