Wings in Boston

34 restaurants in Boston list wings on their menus. The cheapest is Lucky's Lounge at $7.00, listed as Chicken Wings. The typical price across town is $13.99, and the dearest we found is $20.00 at Hurricane's at the Garden, so the two ends of the list are $13.00 apart, which is 186% more for the same dish. Of the 34 kitchens listed, 11 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 12 sit within a dollar of it and 11 charge more than a dollar over.

We track wings in 969 other areas and compare them all on wings across United States. The typical price there runs $12.98 at the median, so Boston is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 273 of the 969. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.25 at Uno Pizza in Philadelphia, PA, and the highest best price is $17.55 in Paramus, NJ. The nearest area with it is South Boston, about 0 mi away, where the best price is $10.75.

Where is the cheapest wings in Boston? Lucky's Lounge, at $7.00 on 355 Congress Street. The same dish reaches $20.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $13.00.

What should wings cost here? About $13.99 is the typical price across the 34 kitchens in Boston that list it. Of the ones listed above, 11 are more than a dollar below that and 11 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 $10.75. That is $3.75 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.