Calamari in Freeport

5 restaurants in Freeport list calamari on their menus. The cheapest is La Nueva Mia Pizza & Restaurant at $10.00, listed as Fried Calamari. The typical price across town is $16.00, and the dearest we found is $20.95 at Nautilus Cafe, so the two ends of the list are $10.95 apart, which is 110% 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 calamari in 493 other areas and compare them all on calamari across United States. The typical price there runs $15.42 at the median, so Freeport is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 169 of the 493. 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 Merrick, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $13.80.

Where is the cheapest calamari in Freeport? La Nueva Mia Pizza & Restaurant, at $10.00 on 42 S Main St. The same dish reaches $20.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $10.95.

What should calamari cost here? About $16.00 is the typical price across the 5 kitchens in Freeport 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 Merrick, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $13.80. That is $3.80 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.