Marsala in East Islip

4 restaurants in East Islip list marsala on their menus. The cheapest is D'Fortini at $20.49, listed as Chicken Marsala. The typical price across town is $25.95, and the dearest we found is $29.05 at Francesco's Trattoria, so the two ends of the list are $8.56 apart, which is 42% more for the same dish. Of the 4 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 1 charges more than a dollar over.

We track marsala in 402 other areas and compare them all on marsala across United States. The typical price there runs $21.95 at the median, so East Islip is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 57 of the 402. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $8.00 at Italian Corner Deli by Massimo in Trumbull, CT, and the highest best price is $32.00 in Red Bank, NJ. The nearest area with it is Sayville, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $24.00.

Where is the cheapest marsala in East Islip? D'Fortini, at $20.49 on 314 E Main St. The same dish reaches $29.05 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $8.56.

What should marsala cost here? About $25.95 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in East Islip 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 Sayville, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $24.00. That is $3.51 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.