Parmigiana in Allentown

28 restaurants in Allentown list parmigiana on their menus. The cheapest is McCall Collective Brewing & Restaurant at $14.00, listed as Eggplant Parm. The typical price across town is $18.99, and the dearest we found is $30.00 at Biaggio Pizzeria & Family Restaurant, so the two ends of the list are $16.00 apart, which is 114% more for the same dish. Of the 28 kitchens listed, 11 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 5 sit within a dollar of it and 12 charge more than a dollar over.

We track parmigiana in 730 other areas and compare them all on parmigiana across United States. The typical price there runs $18.49 at the median, so Allentown is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 288 of the 730. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.25 at Lione's Pizza in Downingtown, PA, and the highest best price is $24.95 in Mount Sinai, NY. The nearest area with it is Catasauqua, about 4 mi away, where the best price is $15.99.

Where is the cheapest parmigiana in Allentown? McCall Collective Brewing & Restaurant, at $14.00 on 102 E Susquehanna St. The same dish reaches $30.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $16.00.

What should parmigiana cost here? About $18.99 is the typical price across the 28 kitchens in Allentown that list it. Of the ones listed above, 11 are more than a dollar below that and 12 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 Catasauqua, about 4 mi away, where the best price is $15.99. That is $1.99 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.