Calamari in Garwood

4 restaurants in Garwood list calamari on their menus. The cheapest is Lorenzo's Fresh Italian Cooking at $9.95. The typical price across town is $14.10, and the dearest we found is $15.99 at Benvenuti, so the two ends of the list are $6.04 apart, which is 61% more for the same dish. Of the 4 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 1 charges 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 $15.45 at the median, so Garwood is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 354 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 Cranford, about 1 mi away, where the best price is $12.95.

Where is the cheapest calamari in Garwood? Lorenzo's Fresh Italian Cooking, at $9.95 on 117 Center St. The same dish reaches $15.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $6.04.

What should calamari cost here? About $14.10 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Garwood that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is 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 Cranford, about 1 mi away, where the best price is $12.95. That is $3.00 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.