Quesadilla in Dorchester

7 restaurants in Dorchester list quesadilla on their menus. The cheapest is Antonio's Pizzeria at $9.10, listed as Cheese Quesadilla. The typical price across town is $12.99, and the dearest we found is $16.00 at Charlie's House of Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $6.90 apart, which is 76% more for the same dish. Of the 7 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 3 charge more than a dollar over.

We track quesadilla in 268 other areas and compare them all on quesadilla across United States. The typical price there runs $12.25 at the median, so Dorchester is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 91 of the 268. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Don Juan | Authentic Mexican Restaurant in Hot Springs, AR, and the highest best price is $16.00 in Babylon, NY. The nearest area with it is Jamaica Plain, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $10.95.

Where is the cheapest quesadilla in Dorchester? Antonio's Pizzeria, at $9.10 on 1508 Dorchester Ave. The same dish reaches $16.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $6.90.

What should quesadilla cost here? About $12.99 is the typical price across the 7 kitchens in Dorchester that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 are more than a dollar below that and 3 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 Jamaica Plain, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $10.95. That is $1.85 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.