Wings in Houston

38 restaurants in Houston list wings on their menus. The cheapest is Al's Pizza House at $5.95, listed as Bone-In Wings. The typical price across town is $9.99, and the dearest we found is $16.89 at DoubleDave's Pizzaworks, so the two ends of the list are $10.94 apart, which is 184% more for the same dish. Of the 38 kitchens listed, 11 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 13 sit within a dollar of it and 14 charge more than a dollar over.

We track wings in 969 other areas and compare them all on wings across United States. The typical price there runs $12.99 at the median, so Houston is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 859 of the 969. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.25 at Uno Pizza in Philadelphia, PA, and the highest best price is $17.55 in Paramus, NJ. The nearest area with it is Sugar Land, about 17 mi away, where the best price is $8.99.

Where is the cheapest wings in Houston? Al's Pizza House, at $5.95 on 2902 Greenhouse Rd. The same dish reaches $16.89 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $10.94.

What should wings cost here? About $9.99 is the typical price across the 38 kitchens in Houston that list it. Of the ones listed above, 11 are more than a dollar below that and 14 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 Sugar Land, about 17 mi away, where the best price is $8.99. That is $3.04 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.