Mozzarella Sticks in Boston

27 restaurants in Boston list mozzarella sticks on their menus. The cheapest is Sal's On The Lagoon at $6.00. The typical price across town is $10.75, and the dearest we found is $25.00 at Faccia a Faccia, so the two ends of the list are $19.00 apart, which is 317% more for the same dish. Of the 27 kitchens listed, 9 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 9 sit within a dollar of it and 9 charge more than a dollar over.

We track mozzarella sticks in 700 other areas and compare them all on mozzarella sticks across United States. The typical price there runs $9.90 at the median, so Boston is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 172 of the 700. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Master's Pizza in New York, NY, and the highest best price is $11.28 in Lake Grove, NY. The nearest area with it is South Boston, about 0 mi away, where the best price is $8.99.

Where is the cheapest mozzarella sticks in Boston? Sal's On The Lagoon, at $6.00 on 1880 William J Day Blvd. The same dish reaches $25.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $19.00.

What should mozzarella sticks cost here? About $10.75 is the typical price across the 27 kitchens in Boston that list it. Of the ones listed above, 9 are more than a dollar below that and 9 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 $8.99. That is $2.99 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.