Calamari in Chesapeake

8 restaurants in Chesapeake list calamari on their menus. The cheapest is Americas Best Hot Wings at $7.49, listed as Fried Calamari. The typical price across town is $14.50, and the dearest we found is $18.00 at Yianni's Neighborhood Pizzeria & Family Restaurant, so the two ends of the list are $10.51 apart, which is 140% more for the same dish. Of the 8 kitchens listed, 4 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 2 charge more than a dollar over.

We track calamari in 495 other areas and compare them all on calamari across United States. The typical price there runs $15.49 at the median, so Chesapeake is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 340 of the 495. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.50 at French Quarter Grille in Austin, TX, and the highest best price is $19.75 in Harwood Heights, IL. The nearest area with it is Norfolk, about 11 mi away, where the best price is $8.49.

Where is the cheapest calamari in Chesapeake? Americas Best Hot Wings, at $7.49 on 1075 George Washington Hwy N A1. The same dish reaches $18.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $10.51.

What should calamari cost here? About $14.50 is the typical price across the 8 kitchens in Chesapeake that list it. Of the ones listed above, 4 are more than a dollar below that and 2 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 Norfolk, about 11 mi away, where the best price is $8.49. That is $1.00 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.