Ravioli in Houston

4 restaurants in Houston list ravioli on their menus. The cheapest is Villa Roma Pizza at $7.99. The typical price across town is $12.65, and the dearest we found is $15.49 at Champion Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $7.50 apart, which is 94% more for the same dish. Of the 4 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 1 sits within a dollar of it and 1 charges more than a dollar over.

We track ravioli in 38 other areas and compare them all on ravioli across United States. The typical price there runs $16.00 at the median, so Houston is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 36 of the 38. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.55 at Pizza Peddler in Natick, MA, and the highest best price is $17.00 in Medford, NJ. The nearest area with it is Tampa, about 793 mi away, where the best price is $8.49.

Where is the cheapest ravioli in Houston? Villa Roma Pizza, at $7.99 on 2945 Walnut Bend Ln. The same dish reaches $15.49 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $7.50.

What should ravioli cost here? About $12.65 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Houston that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 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 Tampa, about 793 mi away, where the best price is $8.49. 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.