7 restaurants in Bethlehem list pasta and meatballs on their menus. The cheapest is Sorella's Pizza & Pasta at $10.28, listed as Pasta with Meatballs Lunch. The typical price across town is $17.00, and the dearest we found is $20.95 at Feasta Pizza III, so the two ends of the list are $10.67 apart, which is 104% more for the same dish. Of the 7 kitchens listed, 3 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 1 sits within a dollar of it and 3 charge more than a dollar over.
We track pasta and meatballs in 115 other areas and compare them all on pasta and meatballs across United States. The typical price there runs $16.50 at the median, so Bethlehem is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 43 of the 115. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $8.00 at Prince of Pizza in Jersey City, NJ, and the highest best price is $22.00 in Boca Raton, FL. The nearest area with it is Allentown, about 7 mi away, where the best price is $11.99.
Where is the cheapest pasta and meatballs in Bethlehem? Sorella's Pizza & Pasta, at $10.28 on 3650 Nazareth Pike. The same dish reaches $20.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $10.67.
What should pasta and meatballs cost here? About $17.00 is the typical price across the 7 kitchens in Bethlehem that list it. Of the ones listed above, 3 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 Allentown, about 7 mi away, where the best price is $11.99. That is $1.71 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.
| Area | Best price | Typical | Places |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bethlehem, PA this page |
$10.28 | $17.00 | 7 |
| Allentown, PA
Mill Creek Pizza · about 7 mi away |
$11.99 | $18.00 | 13 |
| Nazareth, PA
Sicily Pizza & Restaurant · about 8 mi away |
$17.50 | $19.19 | 3 |
| Bath, PA
Bracco's · about 8 mi away |
$14.50 | $17.25 | 4 |
| Easton, PA
Casa di Franco Pizzeria · about 8 mi away |
$10.87 | $16.95 | 11 |
| Phillipsburg, NJ
Gara's Pizza · about 11 mi away |
$12.95 | $16.50 | 6 |
| Hatfield, PA
Palmero's Pizza · about 25 mi away |
$13.50 | $15.95 | 3 |
| Chalfont, PA
Tu Casa Pizzeria & Mexican grill · about 26 mi away |
$14.99 | $15.99 | 3 |
| Flemington, NJ
Delizia Pizza Kitchen · about 28 mi away |
$10.50 | $15.00 | 3 |
| Hackettstown, NJ
Frank's Trattoria · about 32 mi away |
$10.36 | $16.43 | 4 |
| Reading, PA
Ray's Number 1 Pizza · about 36 mi away |
$10.99 | $14.99 | 12 |
| Langhorne, PA
Trevose Pizza · about 39 mi away |
$16.60 | $20.50 | 3 |
| Ewing Township, NJ
Salerno's Pizza III · about 40 mi away |
$12.50 | $15.95 | 4 |
Items are grouped by dish, so names vary a little between restaurants. Each price is what that menu listed on the date shown beside it, not a daily special, so a restaurant may have changed it since. The typical price is the middle of every price we hold for this dish in Bethlehem.