2 min read · October 21, 2026
What a Vegan Burger Costs in 11 US Cities
From a median of $11 in Washington, D.C. to $18 in New York: what the cheapest full-size vegan burger costs at each location, city by city.
By Vegaholic
The data
Vegaholic reads restaurant menus from the restaurants' own websites and records the dishes, prices and vegan markings in one format. This piece uses menus read by our editors through Oct. 21, 2026. Of the 346 locations in our burger catalog, 333 have a burger that is vegan as served and 274 of those print a price.
For each location we took the price of its cheapest full-size vegan burger. We left out lines whose name has the word junior, jr, mini, lil, kid, slider or half, lines in a menu's kids' or sides section, and lines under $5, which we judged too cheap to be a full-size burger. A city's figure is the median of those prices, and we only compare cities with at least five priced locations, which leaves 11. A chain with two locations in a city counts twice. Prices are menu prices before tax, tip and add-ons, and they change; each restaurant's page shows the date its menu was read.
The national picture: $15
Across the 274 priced locations the median cheapest burger is $15, and those prices run from $5 to $27. Counting every burger on every menu, not just each location's cheapest, the range is wider: our burger page lists vegan burgers from $4.49 to $31.99.
City by city, cheapest to dearest
In each line, the range runs from the cheapest location's cheapest burger to the dearest location's cheapest burger.
1. Washington, D.C.: $11 median across 5 locations, $11 to $15.
2. Los Angeles: $13.50 across 9, $9.95 to $18.
3. Portland: about $14.65 across 8, $9.95 to $16.50.
4. Philadelphia: $15 across 5, $9 to $20.50.
5. Phoenix: $15.60 across 5, $9 to $18.
6. Charlotte: $15.99 across 6, $11.99 to $17.99.
7. Seattle: about $16 across 6, $9.95 to $17.99.
8. Baltimore: $16.50 across 7, $10.95 to $19.
9. Chicago: $16.95 across 13, $15 to $21.
10. San Francisco: $17.95 across 5, $7.95 to $21.
11. New York: $18.95 across 17, $10.95 to $27.
What stands out
Portland and San Francisco have the lowest starting prices, $7.49 and $7.95. Philadelphia and Phoenix start at $9.
New York has the highest median, and its dearest location's cheapest burger, $27, is the highest of the 11 cities. Looking at every full-size vegan burger rather than each location's cheapest, the dearest of these cities is San Francisco at $29.99, then New York at $27.
Chicago's cheapest location starts at $15, as much as the median in Philadelphia. Washington, D.C. has the lowest median, but with five locations it is one of the thinnest samples, so read it as a hint rather than a verdict.
Limits of the numbers
These are menu prices, not what anyone paid. A location counts once however many burgers it sells, so a city with a cheap chain can look cheaper than its independents. Cities with fewer than five priced locations are not shown, and we will add them as more menus are read. Locations that did not publish a price are not in the medians.
Sources and planning links
Checked October 21, 2026.
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