Manicotti in Arlington

3 restaurants in Arlington list manicotti on their menus. The cheapest is Federico Ristorante Italiano at $10.95. The typical price across town is $17.00, and the dearest we found is $19.99 at Ruffino's Spaghetti House, so the two ends of the list are $9.04 apart, which is 83% more for the same dish. Of the 3 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 1 sits within a dollar of it and 1 charges more than a dollar over.

We track manicotti in 155 other areas and compare them all on manicotti across United States. The typical price there runs $16.00 at the median, so Arlington is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 45 of the 155. 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 $19.00 in Woodbury, CT. The nearest area with it is Springfield, about 9 mi away, where the best price is $17.50.

Where is the cheapest manicotti in Arlington? Federico Ristorante Italiano, at $10.95 on 519 23rd Street South. The same dish reaches $19.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $9.04.

What should manicotti cost here? About $17.00 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Arlington that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is more than a dollar below that and 1 is 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 Springfield, about 9 mi away, where the best price is $17.50. That is $6.55 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.