Lasagna in Arlington

9 restaurants in Arlington list lasagna on their menus. The cheapest is Federico Ristorante Italiano at $11.95, listed as Vegetable Lasagna. The typical price across town is $15.75, and the dearest we found is $19.95 at La Bettola Italiano, so the two ends of the list are $8.00 apart, which is 67% more for the same dish. Of the 9 kitchens listed, 4 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 1 sits within a dollar of it and 4 charge more than a dollar over.

We track lasagna in 609 other areas and compare them all on lasagna across United States. The typical price there runs $17.50 at the median, so Arlington is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 476 of the 609. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $6.00 at Vitale's Sports Bar Ada in Grand Rapids, MI, and the highest best price is $26.00 in Memphis, TN. The nearest area with it is Fairfax, about 7 mi away, where the best price is $12.99.

Where is the cheapest lasagna in Arlington? Federico Ristorante Italiano, at $11.95 on 519 23rd Street South. The same dish reaches $19.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $8.00.

What should lasagna cost here? About $15.75 is the typical price across the 9 kitchens in Arlington that list it. Of the ones listed above, 4 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 Fairfax, about 7 mi away, where the best price is $12.99. That is $1.04 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.