Ravioli in Hyde Park

3 restaurants in Hyde Park list ravioli on their menus. The cheapest is T & F Pizza at $10.50. The typical price across town is $18.00, and the dearest we found is $19.95 at Hyde Park Pizza and Gyros, so the two ends of the list are $9.45 apart, which is 90% more for the same dish. Of the 3 kitchens listed, 1 charges 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 $15.99 at the median, so Hyde Park is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 8 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 White Plains, about 52 mi away, where the best price is $14.95.

Where is the cheapest ravioli in Hyde Park? T & F Pizza, at $10.50 on 600 Violet Ave. The same dish reaches $19.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $9.45.

What should ravioli cost here? About $18.00 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Hyde Park that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is 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 White Plains, about 52 mi away, where the best price is $14.95. That is $4.45 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.