Parmigiana in Long Island City

10 restaurants in Long Island City list parmigiana on their menus. The cheapest is Giacomo's Pizza at $15.40, listed as Eggplant Parmesan. The typical price across town is $21.15, and the dearest we found is $32.95 at Gracie's Diner, so the two ends of the list are $17.55 apart, which is 114% more for the same dish. Of the 10 kitchens listed, 5 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 3 charge more than a dollar over.

We track parmigiana in 730 other areas and compare them all on parmigiana across United States. The typical price there runs $18.49 at the median, so Long Island City is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 127 of the 730. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.25 at Lione's Pizza in Downingtown, PA, and the highest best price is $24.95 in Mount Sinai, NY. The nearest area with it is Sunnyside, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $18.25.

Where is the cheapest parmigiana in Long Island City? Giacomo's Pizza, at $15.40 on 1505 3rd Avenue. The same dish reaches $32.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $17.55.

What should parmigiana cost here? About $21.15 is the typical price across the 10 kitchens in Long Island City that list it. Of the ones listed above, 5 are more than a dollar below that and 3 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 $18.25. That is $2.85 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.