Lentil Soup in Flushing

11 restaurants in Flushing list lentil soup on their menus. The cheapest is La Bella Mariella at $5.50. The typical price across town is $7.95, and the dearest we found is $13.52 at Donabella Restaurant Pizzeria, so the two ends of the list are $8.02 apart, which is 146% more for the same dish. Of the 11 kitchens listed, 4 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 5 sit within a dollar of it and 2 charge more than a dollar over.

We track lentil soup in 15 other areas and compare them all on lentil soup across United States. The typical price there runs $8.27 at the median, so Flushing is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 8 of the 15. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.99 at Perfecto Pizza in Jamaica, NY, and the highest best price is $8.02 in Massapequa Park, NY. The nearest area with it is Forest Hills, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $7.50.

Where is the cheapest lentil soup in Flushing? La Bella Mariella, at $5.50 on 3579 6061 Fresh Pond Rd. The same dish reaches $13.52 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $8.02.

What should lentil soup cost here? About $7.95 is the typical price across the 11 kitchens in Flushing that list it. Of the ones listed above, 4 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 Forest Hills, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $7.50. That is $2.00 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.