Minestrone Soup in Flushing

10 restaurants in Flushing list minestrone soup on their menus. The cheapest is La Bella Mariella at $5.50. The typical price across town is $8.50, and the dearest we found is $10.49 at Gino's of Kissena, so the two ends of the list are $4.99 apart, which is 91% more for the same dish. Of the 10 kitchens listed, 4 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 5 sit within a dollar of it and 1 charges more than a dollar over.

We track minestrone soup in 45 other areas and compare them all on minestrone soup across United States. The typical price there runs $8.00 at the median, so Flushing is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 18 of the 45. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.35 at Italian Delight in Powhatan, VA, and the highest best price is $9.00 in Franklin Square, NY. The nearest area with it is Forest Hills, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $6.30.

Where is the cheapest minestrone soup in Flushing? La Bella Mariella, at $5.50 on 3579 6061 Fresh Pond Rd. The same dish reaches $10.49 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $4.99.

What should minestrone soup cost here? About $8.50 is the typical price across the 10 kitchens in Flushing that list it. Of the ones listed above, 4 are 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 Forest Hills, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $6.30. That is $0.80 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.