Calamari in Farmingdale

7 restaurants in Farmingdale list calamari on their menus. The cheapest is 3 Brothers Pizza Cafe at $13.63, listed as Fried Calamari. The typical price across town is $19.25, and the dearest we found is $23.73 at Piazzetta of East Farmingdale, so the two ends of the list are $10.10 apart, which is 74% more for the same dish. Of the 7 kitchens listed, 3 charge 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 calamari in 495 other areas and compare them all on calamari across United States. The typical price there runs $15.45 at the median, so Farmingdale is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 22 of the 495. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.50 at French Quarter Grille in Austin, TX, and the highest best price is $19.75 in Harwood Heights, IL. The nearest area with it is Bethpage, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $17.99.

Where is the cheapest calamari in Farmingdale? 3 Brothers Pizza Cafe, at $13.63 on 75 Merritts Rd. The same dish reaches $23.73 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $10.10.

What should calamari cost here? About $19.25 is the typical price across the 7 kitchens in Farmingdale that list it. Of the ones listed above, 3 are 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 Bethpage, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $17.99. That is $4.36 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.