Pizza in Hartford

26 restaurants in Hartford list pizza on their menus. The cheapest is South End Pizza at $8.99, listed as Mozzarella Pizza. The typical price across town is $12.00, and the dearest we found is $19.50 at Al's Pizza & Deli, so the two ends of the list are $10.51 apart, which is 117% more for the same dish. Of the 26 kitchens listed, 6 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 9 sit within a dollar of it and 11 charge more than a dollar over.

We track pizza in 1058 other areas and compare them all on pizza across United States. The typical price there runs $13.95 at the median, so Hartford is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 810 of the 1058. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.49 at Bellacino's Pizza & Grinders in Troy, MI, and the highest best price is $18.00 in Tacoma, WA. The nearest area with it is West Hartford, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $10.45.

Where is the cheapest pizza in Hartford? South End Pizza, at $8.99 on 888 Maple Ave. The same dish reaches $19.50 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $10.51.

What should pizza cost here? About $12.00 is the typical price across the 26 kitchens in Hartford that list it. Of the ones listed above, 6 are more than a dollar below that and 11 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 West Hartford, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $10.45. That is $1.46 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.