3 restaurants in Cincinnati list mac and cheese on their menus. The cheapest is Rusty Bucket Restaurant and Tavern at $6.29, listed as MAC & CHEESE. The typical price across town is $8.00, and the dearest we found is $10.00 at Vintage on Race, so the two ends of the list are $3.71 apart, which is 59% more for the same dish. Of the 3 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 1 sits within a dollar of it and 1 charges more than a dollar over.
We track mac and cheese in 4 other areas and compare them all on mac and cheese across United States. The typical price there runs $14.95 at the median, so Cincinnati is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 3 of the 4. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $5.00 at Vegelicious in Nashville, TN, and the highest best price is $12.00 in Minneapolis, MN. The nearest area with it is Indianapolis, about 100 mi away, where the best price is $7.99.
Where is the cheapest mac and cheese in Cincinnati? Rusty Bucket Restaurant and Tavern, at $6.29 on 2692 Madison Road. The same dish reaches $10.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $3.71.
What should mac and cheese cost here? About $8.00 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Cincinnati that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is 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 Indianapolis, about 100 mi away, where the best price is $7.99. That is $1.70 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cincinnati, OH this page |
$6.29 | $8.00 | 3 |
| Indianapolis, IN
Somos Familia Mexican Restaurant · about 100 mi away |
$7.99 | $9.00 | 3 |
| Nashville, TN
Vegelicious · about 242 mi away |
$5.00 | $7.00 | 4 |
| Minneapolis, MN
The Loop · about 603 mi away |
$12.00 | $14.95 | 3 |
| Portland, OR
Mama Mia · about 1979 mi away |
$8.00 | $16.00 | 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 Cincinnati.