Spaghetti And Meatballs in Columbia

3 restaurants in Columbia list spaghetti and meatballs on their menus. The cheapest is Pizza Boli's at $10.99, listed as Spaghetti with Meatballs. The typical price across town is $15.99, and the dearest we found is $21.63 at Tino's Italian Bistro, so the two ends of the list are $10.64 apart, which is 97% 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 spaghetti and meatballs in 215 other areas and compare them all on spaghetti and meatballs across United States. The typical price there runs $15.99 at the median, so Columbia is about average, with a lower typical price than 107 of the 215. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $6.40 at Pavone's Pizza in Syracuse, NY, and the highest best price is $22.00 in Delray Beach, FL. The nearest area with it is Laurel, about 7 mi away, where the best price is $12.99.

Where is the cheapest spaghetti and meatballs in Columbia? Pizza Boli's, at $10.99 on 7060 Oakland Mills Rd. The same dish reaches $21.63 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $10.64.

What should spaghetti and meatballs cost here? About $15.99 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Columbia 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 Laurel, about 7 mi away, where the best price is $12.99. That is $2.00 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.