Spaghetti Carbonara in Astoria

6 restaurants in Astoria list spaghetti carbonara on their menus. The cheapest is Retro Pizza LLC at $15.50. The typical price across town is $17.11, and the dearest we found is $25.34 at Alba's, so the two ends of the list are $9.84 apart, which is 63% more for the same dish. Of the 6 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 2 charge more than a dollar over.

We track spaghetti carbonara in 4 other areas and compare them all on spaghetti carbonara across United States. The typical price there runs $23.00 at the median, so Astoria is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 4 of the 4. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $8.25 at Delicias Pizzeria Cubana in Miami, FL, and the highest best price is $20.70 in Pelham, NY. The nearest area with it is Rego Park, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $16.95.

Where is the cheapest spaghetti carbonara in Astoria? Retro Pizza LLC, at $15.50 on 31-15 Ditmars Blvd. The same dish reaches $25.34 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $9.84.

What should spaghetti carbonara cost here? About $17.11 is the typical price across the 6 kitchens in Astoria that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 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 Rego Park, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $16.95. That is $1.45 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.