Calamari in Allentown

27 restaurants in Allentown list calamari on their menus. The cheapest is Palumbo Pizza & Subs at $8.75. The typical price across town is $14.50, and the dearest we found is $25.20 at Biaggio Pizzeria & Family Restaurant, so the two ends of the list are $16.45 apart, which is 188% more for the same dish. Of the 27 kitchens listed, 9 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 11 sit within a dollar of it and 7 charge more than a dollar over.

We track calamari in 493 other areas and compare them all on calamari across United States. The typical price there runs $15.45 at the median, so Allentown is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 339 of the 493. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.50 at French Quarter Grille in Austin, TX, and the highest best price is $19.75 in Harwood Heights, IL. The nearest area with it is Emmaus, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $10.40.

Where is the cheapest calamari in Allentown? Palumbo Pizza & Subs, at $8.75 on 1531 Lehigh St. The same dish reaches $25.20 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $16.45.

What should calamari cost here? About $14.50 is the typical price across the 27 kitchens in Allentown that list it. Of the ones listed above, 9 are more than a dollar below that and 7 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 Emmaus, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $10.40. That is $1.65 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.