Parmigiana in Cincinnati

5 restaurants in Cincinnati list parmigiana on their menus. The cheapest is Forno Osteria+Bar at $14.00, listed as EGGPLANT PARMIGIANA. The typical price across town is $25.95, and the dearest we found is $42.00 at Alfio’s Buon Cibo, so the two ends of the list are $28.00 apart, which is 200% more for the same dish. Of the 5 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 1 charges 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 Cincinnati is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 19 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 Dayton, about 46 mi away, where the best price is $14.99.

Where is the cheapest parmigiana in Cincinnati? Forno Osteria+Bar, at $14.00 on 3514 Erie Avenue. The same dish reaches $42.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $28.00.

What should parmigiana cost here? About $25.95 is the typical price across the 5 kitchens in Cincinnati that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 are more than a dollar below that and 1 is 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 Dayton, about 46 mi away, where the best price is $14.99. That is $0.99 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.