Quesadilla in Hamden

6 restaurants in Hamden list quesadilla on their menus. The cheapest is Dixwell Deli & Pizza at $6.99, listed as Cheese Quesadilla. The typical price across town is $10.02, and the dearest we found is $11.05 at Pianca Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $4.06 apart, which is 58% more for the same dish. Of the 6 kitchens listed, 3 charge 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 quesadilla in 270 other areas and compare them all on quesadilla across United States. The typical price there runs $12.25 at the median, so Hamden is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 226 of the 270. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Don Juan | Authentic Mexican Restaurant in Hot Springs, AR, and the highest best price is $16.00 in Babylon, NY. The nearest area with it is New Haven, about 4 mi away, where the best price is $7.49.

Where is the cheapest quesadilla in Hamden? Dixwell Deli & Pizza, at $6.99 on 2460 Dixwell Ave. The same dish reaches $11.05 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $4.06.

What should quesadilla cost here? About $10.02 is the typical price across the 6 kitchens in Hamden that list it. Of the ones listed above, 3 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 New Haven, about 4 mi away, where the best price is $7.49. That is $0.50 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.