Stromboli in Columbus

14 restaurants in Columbus list stromboli on their menus. The cheapest is Pastaria at $7.99. The typical price across town is $12.99, and the dearest we found is $19.50 at Pasta Villa Italian Restaurant & Pizzeria, so the two ends of the list are $11.51 apart, which is 144% more for the same dish. Of the 14 kitchens listed, 3 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 7 sit within a dollar of it and 4 charge more than a dollar over.

We track stromboli in 456 other areas and compare them all on stromboli across United States. The typical price there runs $13.95 at the median, so Columbus is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 281 of the 456. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.50 at Da Vinci Pizzeria in New York, NY, and the highest best price is $18.29 in Cape May, NJ. The nearest area with it is Cincinnati, about 99 mi away, where the best price is $8.91.

Where is the cheapest stromboli in Columbus? Pastaria, at $7.99 on 59 Spruce Street. The same dish reaches $19.50 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $11.51.

What should stromboli cost here? About $12.99 is the typical price across the 14 kitchens in Columbus that list it. Of the ones listed above, 3 are more than a dollar below that and 4 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 Cincinnati, about 99 mi away, where the best price is $8.91. That is $0.92 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.