Calzone in Long Island City

9 restaurants in Long Island City list calzone on their menus. The cheapest is La Mia Pizza at $7.95, listed as Cheese Calzone. The typical price across town is $10.75, and the dearest we found is $22.00 at Manetta's Ristorante, so the two ends of the list are $14.05 apart, which is 177% more for the same dish. Of the 9 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 4 sit within a dollar of it and 4 charge more than a dollar over.

We track calzone in 747 other areas and compare them all on calzone across United States. The typical price there runs $12.99 at the median, so Long Island City is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 648 of the 747. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Catania's Pizza in Yonkers, NY, and the highest best price is $15.99 in Eustis, FL. The nearest area with it is Sunnyside, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $11.00.

Where is the cheapest calzone in Long Island City? La Mia Pizza, at $7.95 on 1580 1st Avenue. The same dish reaches $22.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $14.05.

What should calzone cost here? About $10.75 is the typical price across the 9 kitchens in Long Island City that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is more than a dollar below that and 4 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 Sunnyside, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $11.00. That is $3.05 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.