Wings in Arlington

20 restaurants in Arlington list wings on their menus. The cheapest is Ryu Izakaya at $4.50, listed as Chicken Wing. The typical price across town is $12.00, and the dearest we found is $18.99 at Mario's Pizza House, so the two ends of the list are $14.49 apart, which is 322% more for the same dish. Of the 20 kitchens listed, 9 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 5 sit within a dollar of it and 6 charge more than a dollar over.

We track wings in 969 other areas and compare them all on wings across United States. The typical price there runs $12.99 at the median, so Arlington is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 563 of the 969. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.25 at Uno Pizza in Philadelphia, PA, and the highest best price is $17.55 in Paramus, NJ. The nearest area with it is Falls Church, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $13.00.

Where is the cheapest wings in Arlington? Ryu Izakaya, at $4.50 on 3030 Columbia Pike. The same dish reaches $18.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $14.49.

What should wings cost here? About $12.00 is the typical price across the 20 kitchens in Arlington that list it. Of the ones listed above, 9 are more than a dollar below that and 6 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 Falls Church, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $13.00. That is $8.50 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.