Pizza in Houston

51 restaurants in Houston list pizza on their menus, and the 40 cheapest are listed above. The cheapest is Al's Pizza House at $5.99, listed as Cheese Pizza. The typical price across town is $11.99, and the dearest of the 40 listed is $14.50 at Luna Pizzeria, so the two ends of the list are $8.51 apart, which is 142% more for the same dish. Of the 40 kitchens listed, 23 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 9 sit within a dollar of it and 8 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 Houston is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 837 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 Sugar Land, about 17 mi away, where the best price is $6.49.

Where is the cheapest pizza in Houston? Al's Pizza House, at $5.99 on 2902 Greenhouse Rd. The same dish reaches $14.50 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $8.51.

What should pizza cost here? About $11.99 is the typical price across the 51 kitchens in Houston that list it. Of the ones listed above, 23 are more than a dollar below that and 8 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 $6.49. 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.