Pasta And Meatballs in Elizabeth

5 restaurants in Elizabeth list pasta and meatballs on their menus. The cheapest is Tommy's Pizzeria & Restaurant at $11.50, listed as Pasta with Meatballs. The typical price across town is $14.00, and the dearest we found is $17.99 at LEO'S PIZZERIA, so the two ends of the list are $6.49 apart, which is 56% more for the same dish. Of the 5 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 2 charge 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 Elizabeth is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 105 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 Linden, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $12.95.

Where is the cheapest pasta and meatballs in Elizabeth? Tommy's Pizzeria & Restaurant, at $11.50 on 1063 Fairmount Ave. The same dish reaches $17.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $6.49.

What should pasta and meatballs cost here? About $14.00 is the typical price across the 5 kitchens in Elizabeth that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is more than a dollar below that and 2 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 Linden, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $12.95. That is $1.45 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.