3 restaurants in Cambridge list roast beef on their menus. The cheapest is Aram's #2 House of Pizza at $10.00. The typical price across town is $16.50, and the dearest we found is $16.85 at Primo Pizza of Cambridge & Roast Beef, so the two ends of the list are $6.85 apart, which is 68% more for the same dish. Of the 3 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 0 charge more than a dollar over.
We track roast beef in 3 other areas and compare them all on roast beef across United States. The typical price there runs $18.99 at the median, so Cambridge is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 2 of the 3. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $7.75 at Nick's Place in Saugus, MA, and the highest best price is $13.25 in Saint Louis, MO. The nearest area with it is Saugus, about 8 mi away, where the best price is $7.75.
Where is the cheapest roast beef in Cambridge? Aram's #2 House of Pizza, at $10.00 on 345 Cambridge Street. The same dish reaches $16.85 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $6.85.
What should roast beef cost here? About $16.50 is the typical price across the 3 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 Saugus, about 8 mi away, where the best price is $7.75. That is $2.25 less than the best here, though whether that is worth the journey is your call.
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 |
$10.00 | $16.50 | 3 |
| Saugus, MA
Nick's Place · about 8 mi away |
$7.75 | $20.99 | 3 |
| Peabody, MA
Giovanni's House of Pizza · about 13 mi away |
$7.99 | $18.99 | 3 |
| Saint Louis, MO
UKRAFT Brunch Café · about 1036 mi away |
$13.25 | $14.50 | 3 |
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.