Chicken Kabob in Boston

8 restaurants in Boston list chicken kabob on their menus. The cheapest is Broadway's Best Pizza at $14.99, listed as Chicken Kabob Plate. The typical price across town is $17.95, and the dearest we found is $20.39 at AK's Takeout & Delivery, so the two ends of the list are $5.40 apart, which is 36% 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 chicken kabob in 21 other areas and compare them all on chicken kabob across United States. The typical price there runs $17.99 at the median, so Boston is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 11 of the 21. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $10.00 at Makarios in Birmingham, AL, and the highest best price is $18.70 in Abington, MA. The nearest area with it is Jamaica Plain, about 4 mi away, where the best price is $15.95.

Where is the cheapest chicken kabob in Boston? Broadway's Best Pizza, at $14.99 on 483 E Broadway. The same dish reaches $20.39 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $5.40.

What should chicken kabob cost here? About $17.95 is the typical price across the 8 kitchens in Boston 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 Jamaica Plain, about 4 mi away, where the best price is $15.95. That is $0.96 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.