Parmigiana in Buffalo

13 restaurants in Buffalo list parmigiana on their menus. The cheapest is Gino's NY Pizzeria at $9.16, listed as Chicken Parm Lunch. The typical price across town is $14.95, and the dearest we found is $22.87 at Marco's Italian Restaurant, so the two ends of the list are $13.71 apart, which is 150% more for the same dish. Of the 13 kitchens listed, 6 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 1 sits within a dollar of it and 6 charge more than a dollar over.

We track parmigiana in 730 other areas and compare them all on parmigiana across United States. The typical price there runs $18.49 at the median, so Buffalo is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 664 of the 730. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.25 at Lione's Pizza in Downingtown, PA, and the highest best price is $24.95 in Mount Sinai, NY. The nearest area with it is Tonawanda, about 7 mi away, where the best price is $10.49.

Where is the cheapest parmigiana in Buffalo? Gino's NY Pizzeria, at $9.16 on 1009 Elmwood Avenue. The same dish reaches $22.87 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $13.71.

What should parmigiana cost here? About $14.95 is the typical price across the 13 kitchens in Buffalo that list it. Of the ones listed above, 6 are more than a dollar below that and 6 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 Tonawanda, about 7 mi away, where the best price is $10.49. That is $1.33 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.