Bruschetta in Alexandria

5 restaurants in Alexandria list bruschetta on their menus. The cheapest is Quattro Formaggi at $9.00. The typical price across town is $14.00, and the dearest we found is $17.99 at Laporta's, so the two ends of the list are $8.99 apart, which is 100% more for the same dish. Of the 5 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 3 sit within a dollar of it and 1 charges more than a dollar over.

We track bruschetta in 109 other areas and compare them all on bruschetta across United States. The typical price there runs $11.00 at the median, so Alexandria is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 10 of the 109. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.35 at Italian Delight in Powhatan, VA, and the highest best price is $17.95 in West Babylon, NY. The nearest area with it is Springfield, about 7 mi away, where the best price is $13.00.

Where is the cheapest bruschetta in Alexandria? Quattro Formaggi, at $9.00 on 1725-B Duke St. The same dish reaches $17.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $8.99.

What should bruschetta cost here? About $14.00 is the typical price across the 5 kitchens in Alexandria 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 Springfield, about 7 mi away, where the best price is $13.00. That is $4.00 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.