Calzone in Astoria

23 restaurants in Astoria list calzone on their menus. The cheapest is Bronx Slice at $6.00, listed as Cheese Calzone. The typical price across town is $9.50, and the dearest we found is $16.95 at Basil Brick Oven Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $10.95 apart, which is 182% more for the same dish. Of the 23 kitchens listed, 4 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 10 sit within a dollar of it and 9 charge more than a dollar over.

We track calzone in 747 other areas and compare them all on calzone across United States. The typical price there runs $12.99 at the median, so Astoria is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 705 of the 747. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Catania's Pizza in Yonkers, NY, and the highest best price is $15.99 in Eustis, FL. The nearest area with it is Long Island City, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $7.95.

Where is the cheapest calzone in Astoria? Bronx Slice, at $6.00 on 37 Bruckner Blvd. The same dish reaches $16.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $10.95.

What should calzone cost here? About $9.50 is the typical price across the 23 kitchens in Astoria that list it. Of the ones listed above, 4 are more than a dollar below that and 9 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 Long Island City, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $7.95. That is $1.95 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.