Cheese Ravioli in Astoria

10 restaurants in Astoria list cheese ravioli on their menus. The cheapest is Sergio's Pizza & Gourmet Eatery at $8.00. The typical price across town is $16.50, and the dearest we found is $23.00 at Sac's Place, so the two ends of the list are $15.00 apart, which is 188% more for the same dish. Of the 10 kitchens listed, 3 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 3 sit within a dollar of it and 4 charge more than a dollar over.

We track cheese ravioli in 193 other areas and compare them all on cheese ravioli across United States. The typical price there runs $15.99 at the median, so Astoria is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 74 of the 193. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $7.50 at Picatta Pizza & Pasta in Houston, TX, and the highest best price is $20.00 in Ventnor City, NJ. The nearest area with it is Woodside, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $9.95.

Where is the cheapest cheese ravioli in Astoria? Sergio's Pizza & Gourmet Eatery, at $8.00 on 4803 Ditmars Blvd. The same dish reaches $23.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $15.00.

What should cheese ravioli cost here? About $16.50 is the typical price across the 10 kitchens in Astoria that list it. Of the ones listed above, 3 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 Woodside, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $9.95. 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.