3 restaurants in Fort Lauderdale list pasta and meatballs on their menus. The cheapest is Big Louie's Pizzeria of Sistrunk at $8.99, listed as Pasta with Meatballs. The typical price across town is $17.99, and the dearest we found is $18.90 at Snappers Fish and Chicken 11 INC, so the two ends of the list are $9.91 apart, which is 110% 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 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 Fort Lauderdale is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 28 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 Boca Raton, about 17 mi away, where the best price is $22.00.
Where is the cheapest pasta and meatballs in Fort Lauderdale? Big Louie's Pizzeria of Sistrunk, at $8.99 on 1712 NW 6th St. The same dish reaches $18.90 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $9.91.
What should pasta and meatballs cost here? About $17.99 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Fort Lauderdale 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 Boca Raton, about 17 mi away, where the best price is $22.00. That is $13.01 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.
| Area | Best price | Typical | Places |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fort Lauderdale, FL this page |
$8.99 | $17.99 | 3 |
| Boca Raton, FL
Roberto's Italian Pizzeria · about 17 mi away |
$22.00 | $23.00 | 3 |
| West Palm Beach, FL
Pronto Pizza · about 40 mi away |
$9.95 | $17.49 | 5 |
| Port St. Lucie, FL
Pulcinella Pizza & Italian Market · about 81 mi away |
$13.97 | $15.99 | 3 |
| Orlando, FL
Muzzarella Pizza & Italian Kitchen · about 178 mi away |
$14.99 | $22.07 | 4 |
| Lake Mary, FL
Escas Pizza · about 196 mi away |
$17.95 | $20.79 | 3 |
| Raleigh, NC
Assaggio's Italian Restaurant · about 675 mi away |
$12.49 | $14.99 | 4 |
| Dundalk, MD
Royal Pizza · about 931 mi away |
$11.99 | $12.99 | 3 |
| Randallstown, MD
Oriole Pizza · about 935 mi away |
$8.99 | $9.99 | 3 |
| Mays Landing, NJ
Rogers Bistro · about 972 mi away |
$13.99 | $15.49 | 3 |
| Bellmawr, NJ
Andi's Pizza · about 992 mi away |
$14.99 | $17.95 | 4 |
| Lititz, PA
Nino's NY Style Pizza · about 993 mi away |
$13.99 | $14.99 | 3 |
| Medford, NJ
Femmina Italian Grill · about 998 mi away |
$15.99 | $19.00 | 7 |
Items are grouped by dish, so names vary a little between restaurants. Each price is what that menu listed on the date shown beside it, not a daily special, so a restaurant may have changed it since. The typical price is the middle of every price we hold for this dish in Fort Lauderdale.