Wings in Jamaica Plain

9 restaurants in Jamaica Plain list wings on their menus. The cheapest is JP Kitchen at $8.95, listed as Chicken Wings. The typical price across town is $13.95, and the dearest we found is $17.27 at The Real Deal, so the two ends of the list are $8.32 apart, which is 93% more for the same dish. Of the 9 kitchens listed, 4 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 3 sit within a dollar of it and 2 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 $12.98 at the median, so Jamaica Plain is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 311 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 Brookline, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $12.18.

Where is the cheapest wings in Jamaica Plain? JP Kitchen, at $8.95 on 3510 Washington Street. The same dish reaches $17.27 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $8.32.

What should wings cost here? About $13.95 is the typical price across the 9 kitchens in Jamaica Plain that list it. Of the ones listed above, 4 are more than a dollar below that and 2 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 Brookline, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $12.18. That is $3.23 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.