Quesadilla in Boston

16 restaurants in Boston list quesadilla on their menus. The cheapest is El Pelon at $6.95, listed as Cheese Quesadilla. The typical price across town is $16.00, and the dearest we found is $22.99 at The Bell in Hand, so the two ends of the list are $16.04 apart, which is 231% more for the same dish. Of the 16 kitchens listed, 8 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 4 sit within a dollar of it and 4 charge more than a dollar over.

We track quesadilla in 268 other areas and compare them all on quesadilla across United States. The typical price there runs $12.25 at the median, so Boston is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 3 of the 268. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Don Juan | Authentic Mexican Restaurant in Hot Springs, AR, and the highest best price is $16.00 in Babylon, NY. The nearest area with it is South Boston, about 0 mi away, where the best price is $11.50.

Where is the cheapest quesadilla in Boston? El Pelon, at $6.95 on 92 Peterborough Street. The same dish reaches $22.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $16.04.

What should quesadilla cost here? About $16.00 is the typical price across the 16 kitchens in Boston that list it. Of the ones listed above, 8 are more than a dollar below that and 4 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 South Boston, about 0 mi away, where the best price is $11.50. That is $4.55 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.