Spaghetti And Meatballs in Long Beach

4 restaurants in Long Beach list spaghetti and meatballs on their menus. The cheapest is Avila's Pizza at $9.99, listed as Spaghetti & Meatballs. The typical price across town is $14.99, and the dearest we found is $27.95 at Knolls Restaurant, so the two ends of the list are $17.96 apart, which is 180% 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 spaghetti and meatballs in 215 other areas and compare them all on spaghetti and meatballs across United States. The typical price there runs $15.99 at the median, so Long Beach is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 144 of the 215. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $6.40 at Pavone's Pizza in Syracuse, NY, and the highest best price is $22.00 in Delray Beach, FL. The nearest area with it is Garden Grove, about 10 mi away, where the best price is $11.00.

Where is the cheapest spaghetti and meatballs in Long Beach? Avila's Pizza, at $9.99 on 1948 E Del Amo Blvd. The same dish reaches $27.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $17.96.

What should spaghetti and meatballs cost here? About $14.99 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Long Beach 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 Garden Grove, about 10 mi away, where the best price is $11.00. That is $1.01 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.