Falafel in Columbus

4 restaurants in Columbus list falafel on their menus. The cheapest is Maryams Halal Taste of New York at $4.99. The typical price across town is $9.99, and the dearest we found is $18.00 at Cafe Istanbul, so the two ends of the list are $13.01 apart, which is 261% more for the same dish. Of the 4 kitchens listed, 2 charge 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 falafel in 11 other areas and compare them all on falafel across United States. The typical price there runs $10.50 at the median, so Columbus is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 6 of the 11. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.99 at Falafel And Amba Restaurant in Sterling Heights, MI, and the highest best price is $11.00 in Cambridge, MA. The nearest area with it is Sterling Heights, about 177 mi away, where the best price is $4.99.

Where is the cheapest falafel in Columbus? Maryams Halal Taste of New York, at $4.99 on 1600 Oakland Park Ave. The same dish reaches $18.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $13.01.

What should falafel cost here? About $9.99 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Columbus 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 Sterling Heights, about 177 mi away, where the best price is $4.99. That is the same as 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.