Salmon in Washington

16 restaurants in Washington list salmon on their menus. The cheapest is Sushi Hachi at $6.00. The typical price across town is $16.50, and the dearest we found is $38.00 at Floriana, so the two ends of the list are $32.00 apart, which is 533% more for the same dish. Of the 16 kitchens listed, 7 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 1 sits within a dollar of it and 8 charge more than a dollar over.

We track salmon in 34 other areas and compare them all on salmon across United States. The typical price there runs $20.00 at the median, so Washington is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 21 of the 34. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Arashi Yama in Gainesville, FL, and the highest best price is $28.00 in Savannah, GA. The nearest area with it is Arlington, about 9 mi away, where the best price is $8.00.

Where is the cheapest salmon in Washington? Sushi Hachi, at $6.00 on 735 8th Street Southeast. The same dish reaches $38.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $32.00.

What should salmon cost here? About $16.50 is the typical price across the 16 kitchens in Washington that list it. Of the ones listed above, 7 are more than a dollar below that and 8 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 Arlington, about 9 mi away, where the best price is $8.00. 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.