Calamari in Belleville

8 restaurants in Belleville list calamari on their menus. The cheapest is Roberto's Pizza Cafe at $11.00, listed as Fried Calamari. The typical price across town is $14.00, and the dearest we found is $19.50 at Alberto's Restaurant & Pizzeria, so the two ends of the list are $8.50 apart, which is 77% more for the same dish. Of the 8 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 3 sit within a dollar of it and 3 charge more than a dollar over.

We track calamari in 495 other areas and compare them all on calamari across United States. The typical price there runs $15.49 at the median, so Belleville is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 356 of the 495. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.50 at French Quarter Grille in Austin, TX, and the highest best price is $19.75 in Harwood Heights, IL. The nearest area with it is North Arlington, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $14.95.

Where is the cheapest calamari in Belleville? Roberto's Pizza Cafe, at $11.00 on 179 Franklin St. The same dish reaches $19.50 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $8.50.

What should calamari cost here? About $14.00 is the typical price across the 8 kitchens in Belleville that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 are more than a dollar below that and 3 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 North Arlington, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $14.95. That is $3.95 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.