Spaghetti Bolognese in Edmonds

3 restaurants in Edmonds list spaghetti bolognese on their menus. The cheapest is Ristorante Machiavelli at $11.00. The typical price across town is $24.00, and the dearest we found is $24.95 at Girardi's Osteria Italiana, so the two ends of the list are $13.95 apart, which is 127% more for the same dish. Of the 3 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 0 charge more than a dollar over.

We track spaghetti bolognese in 6 other areas and compare them all on spaghetti bolognese across United States. The typical price there runs $19.49 at the median, so Edmonds is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 0 of the 6. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $9.99 at Vittoria Pasta & Pizza Co in Kissimmee, FL, and the highest best price is $15.99 in Hummelstown, PA. The nearest area with it is San Francisco, about 694 mi away, where the best price is $15.99.

Where is the cheapest spaghetti bolognese in Edmonds? Ristorante Machiavelli, at $11.00 on 316 Main Street. The same dish reaches $24.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $13.95.

What should spaghetti bolognese cost here? About $24.00 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Edmonds that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is more than a dollar below that and 0 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 San Francisco, about 694 mi away, where the best price is $15.99. That is $4.99 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.