Lobster Ravioli in Astoria

6 restaurants in Astoria list lobster ravioli on their menus. The cheapest is La Nostra at $12.95. The typical price across town is $23.95, and the dearest we found is $32.00 at Siena Cafe, so the two ends of the list are $19.05 apart, which is 147% more for the same dish. Of the 6 kitchens listed, 3 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 1 sits within a dollar of it and 2 charge more than a dollar over.

We track lobster ravioli in 45 other areas and compare them all on lobster ravioli across United States. The typical price there runs $22.00 at the median, so Astoria is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 17 of the 45. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $9.99 at Super Mario's Pizza in Knoxville, TN, and the highest best price is $32.00 in Red Bank, NJ. The nearest area with it is Fair Lawn, about 15 mi away, where the best price is $16.00.

Where is the cheapest lobster ravioli in Astoria? La Nostra, at $12.95 on 2146 2nd Avenue. The same dish reaches $32.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $19.05.

What should lobster ravioli cost here? About $23.95 is the typical price across the 6 kitchens in Astoria that list it. Of the ones listed above, 3 are more than a dollar below that and 2 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 Fair Lawn, about 15 mi away, where the best price is $16.00. That is $3.05 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.