Marsala in Bethlehem

12 restaurants in Bethlehem list marsala on their menus. The cheapest is Sorella's Pizza & Pasta at $11.31, listed as Chicken Marsala Lunch. The typical price across town is $20.95, and the dearest we found is $25.95 at Napoli Pizza & Italian Cuisine, so the two ends of the list are $14.64 apart, which is 129% more for the same dish. Of the 12 kitchens listed, 3 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 7 sit within a dollar of it and 2 charge more than a dollar over.

We track marsala in 402 other areas and compare them all on marsala across United States. The typical price there runs $21.95 at the median, so Bethlehem is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 254 of the 402. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $8.00 at Italian Corner Deli by Massimo in Trumbull, CT, and the highest best price is $32.00 in Red Bank, NJ. The nearest area with it is Allentown, about 7 mi away, where the best price is $16.50.

Where is the cheapest marsala in Bethlehem? Sorella's Pizza & Pasta, at $11.31 on 3650 Nazareth Pike. The same dish reaches $25.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $14.64.

What should marsala cost here? About $20.95 is the typical price across the 12 kitchens in Bethlehem 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 Allentown, about 7 mi away, where the best price is $16.50. That is $5.19 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.