Calamari Marinara in Long Island City

3 restaurants in Long Island City list calamari marinara on their menus. The cheapest is La Mia Pizza at $15.95. The typical price across town is $20.95, and the dearest we found is $21.95 at Centro Pizza Bar & Italian Kitchen, so the two ends of the list are $6.00 apart, which is 38% more for the same dish. Of the 3 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 0 charge more than a dollar over.

We track calamari marinara in 28 other areas and compare them all on calamari marinara across United States. The typical price there runs $22.95 at the median, so Long Island City is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 19 of the 28. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $11.25 at Whippany Pizzeria in Whippany, NJ, and the highest best price is $25.00 in Boynton Beach, FL. The nearest area with it is Forest Hills, about 6 mi away, where the best price is $18.95.

Where is the cheapest calamari marinara in Long Island City? La Mia Pizza, at $15.95 on 1580 1st Avenue. The same dish reaches $21.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $6.00.

What should calamari marinara cost here? About $20.95 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Long Island City that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is more than a dollar below that and 0 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 Forest Hills, about 6 mi away, where the best price is $18.95. That is $3.00 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.