5 restaurants in Cambridge list pasta and meatballs on their menus. The cheapest is Kendall House of Pizza at $12.95, listed as Pasta with Meatballs. The typical price across town is $14.99, and the dearest we found is $15.95 at Half Shell Pizza & More, so the two ends of the list are $3.00 apart, which is 23% more for the same dish. Of the 5 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 4 sit within a dollar of it and 0 charge more than a dollar over.
We track pasta and meatballs in 115 other areas and compare them all on pasta and meatballs across United States. The typical price there runs $16.50 at the median, so Cambridge is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 92 of the 115. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $8.00 at Prince of Pizza in Jersey City, NJ, and the highest best price is $22.00 in Boca Raton, FL. The nearest area with it is Arlington, about 4 mi away, where the best price is $15.99.
Where is the cheapest pasta and meatballs in Cambridge? Kendall House of Pizza, at $12.95 on 201 3rd St. The same dish reaches $15.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $3.00.
What should pasta and meatballs cost here? About $14.99 is the typical price across the 5 kitchens in Cambridge that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is more than a dollar below that and 0 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 Arlington, about 4 mi away, where the best price is $15.99. That is $3.04 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.
| Area | Best price | Typical | Places |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cambridge, MA this page |
$12.95 | $14.99 | 5 |
| Arlington, MA
Olympic Pizza · about 4 mi away |
$15.99 | $17.00 | 4 |
| Jamaica Plain, MA
Zesto's Pizza & Grille · about 4 mi away |
$14.95 | $18.25 | 4 |
| Revere, MA
Revere House of Pizza · about 7 mi away |
$15.50 | $16.50 | 3 |
| Peabody, MA
Brother's Roast Beef & Seafood · about 13 mi away |
$12.95 | $13.99 | 3 |
| Natick, MA
Liberty's Pizza of Natick · about 14 mi away |
$14.99 | $16.40 | 3 |
| Stoughton, MA
Old Country Pizzeria · about 17 mi away |
$12.25 | $15.20 | 3 |
| Dracut, MA
G & G Quick Bite · about 23 mi away |
$12.99 | $14.95 | 3 |
| Methuen, MA
Route 97 House of Pizza · about 25 mi away |
$12.95 | $15.39 | 5 |
| Woonsocket, RI
MVP Pizzeria · about 33 mi away |
$10.99 | $12.99 | 5 |
| Worcester, MA
Restaurant Pizza Works · about 36 mi away |
$10.99 | $12.95 | 8 |
| Providence, RI
Milano's Pizza · about 41 mi away |
$12.99 | $15.95 | 4 |
| Warwick, RI
Post Road Pizza · about 48 mi away |
$11.99 | $13.99 | 4 |
Items are grouped by dish, so names vary a little between restaurants. Each price is what that menu listed on the date shown beside it, not a daily special, so a restaurant may have changed it since. The typical price is the middle of every price we hold for this dish in Cambridge.