Chicken Gyro in Albany

10 restaurants in Albany list chicken gyro on their menus. The cheapest is Cafe Lark at $6.99. The typical price across town is $9.99, and the dearest we found is $17.99 at Elif's Kitchen, so the two ends of the list are $11.00 apart, which is 157% more for the same dish. Of the 10 kitchens listed, 3 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 4 sit within a dollar of it and 3 charge more than a dollar over.

We track chicken gyro in 40 other areas and compare them all on chicken gyro across United States. The typical price there runs $10.99 at the median, so Albany is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 29 of the 40. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $5.99 at Hook Fish & Chicken in Cincinnati, OH, and the highest best price is $15.95 in Wildwood, NJ. The nearest area with it is Troy, about 7 mi away, where the best price is $7.99.

Where is the cheapest chicken gyro in Albany? Cafe Lark, at $6.99 on 452 Madison Ave. The same dish reaches $17.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $11.00.

What should chicken gyro cost here? About $9.99 is the typical price across the 10 kitchens in Albany that list it. Of the ones listed above, 3 are more than a dollar below that and 3 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 Troy, about 7 mi away, where the best price is $7.99. That is $1.00 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.