6 restaurants in East Hartford list pasta and meatballs on their menus. The cheapest is C&E Pizza Restaurant at $12.99, listed as Pasta with Meatballs Lunch. The typical price across town is $15.50, and the dearest we found is $16.75 at Village Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $3.76 apart, which is 29% more for the same dish. Of the 6 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 3 sit within a dollar of it and 1 charges more than a dollar over.
We track pasta and meatballs in 115 other areas and compare them all on pasta and meatballs across United States. The typical price there runs $16.50 at the median, so East Hartford is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 80 of the 115. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $8.00 at Prince of Pizza in Jersey City, NJ, and the highest best price is $22.00 in Boca Raton, FL. The nearest area with it is New Britain, about 11 mi away, where the best price is $9.90.
Where is the cheapest pasta and meatballs in East Hartford? C&E Pizza Restaurant, at $12.99 on 1111 Burnside Ave. The same dish reaches $16.75 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $3.76.
What should pasta and meatballs cost here? About $15.50 is the typical price across the 6 kitchens in East Hartford 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 New Britain, about 11 mi away, where the best price is $9.90. That is $3.09 less than the best here, though whether that is worth the journey is your call.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| East Hartford, CT this page |
$12.99 | $15.50 | 6 |
| New Britain, CT
Adinas Pizzeria · about 11 mi away |
$9.90 | $15.49 | 6 |
| Windsor Locks, CT
Village Pizza · about 11 mi away |
$14.50 | $18.95 | 4 |
| Southington, CT
Riverbend Pizza · about 17 mi away |
$16.00 | $18.40 | 4 |
| Bristol, CT
Empire Pizza & Grill · about 17 mi away |
$12.95 | $15.25 | 6 |
| Meriden, CT
Bella Luna Pizza & Ristorante · about 19 mi away |
$12.02 | $15.00 | 7 |
| Waterbury, CT
Pie Guys · about 25 mi away |
$12.65 | $17.65 | 4 |
| Chicopee, MA
John's Pizzeria & Restaurant · about 27 mi away |
$17.25 | $18.99 | 4 |
| North Haven, CT
Mama Rosa's Pizza · about 28 mi away |
$12.95 | $14.35 | 3 |
| Litchfield, CT
Litchfield Pizza · about 30 mi away |
$14.95 | $19.95 | 3 |
| Holyoke, MA
Capri Pizza · about 30 mi away |
$16.95 | $18.57 | 4 |
| West Haven, CT
Falcon Pizza · about 38 mi away |
$14.25 | $17.99 | 4 |
| Shelton, CT
The Pizza Box · about 41 mi away |
$14.70 | $20.00 | 4 |
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 East Hartford.