Cheese Ravioli in Chicago

24 restaurants in Chicago list cheese ravioli on their menus. The cheapest is Big Tony's Pizza II at $8.50. The typical price across town is $14.11, and the dearest we found is $21.95 at Il Porcellino, so the two ends of the list are $13.45 apart, which is 158% more for the same dish. Of the 24 kitchens listed, 8 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 7 sit within a dollar of it and 9 charge more than a dollar over.

We track cheese ravioli in 193 other areas and compare them all on cheese ravioli across United States. The typical price there runs $15.99 at the median, so Chicago is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 155 of the 193. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $7.50 at Picatta Pizza & Pasta in Houston, TX, and the highest best price is $20.00 in Ventnor City, NJ. The nearest area with it is Franklin Park, about 9 mi away, where the best price is $10.99.

Where is the cheapest cheese ravioli in Chicago? Big Tony's Pizza II, at $8.50 on 3732 W 59th St. The same dish reaches $21.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $13.45.

What should cheese ravioli cost here? About $14.11 is the typical price across the 24 kitchens in Chicago that list it. Of the ones listed above, 8 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 Franklin Park, about 9 mi away, where the best price is $10.99. That is $2.49 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.