Bruschetta in Allentown

20 restaurants in Allentown list bruschetta on their menus. The cheapest is Drake's Pizza at $6.25. The typical price across town is $9.50, and the dearest we found is $12.00 at Teresas' Italian Restaurant & Pizzeria, so the two ends of the list are $5.75 apart, which is 92% more for the same dish. Of the 20 kitchens listed, 7 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 9 sit within a dollar of it and 4 charge 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 $11.10 at the median, so Allentown is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 88 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 Emmaus, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $7.89.

Where is the cheapest bruschetta in Allentown? Drake's Pizza, at $6.25 on 1452 Pennsylvania Ave. The same dish reaches $12.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $5.75.

What should bruschetta cost here? About $9.50 is the typical price across the 20 kitchens in Allentown that list it. Of the ones listed above, 7 are more than a dollar below that and 4 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 $7.89. That is $1.64 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.