3 restaurants in Long Island City list piccata on their menus. The cheapest is La Mia Pizza at $15.95, listed as Chicken Piccata. The typical price across town is $19.95, 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, 1 sits within a dollar of it and 1 charges more than a dollar over.
We track piccata in 154 other areas and compare them all on piccata across United States. The typical price there runs $22.00 at the median, so Long Island City is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 115 of the 154. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $9.95 at Joe's Pizza, Pasta & Subs in Fort Worth, TX, and the highest best price is $26.50 in Hampton Bays, NY. The nearest area with it is Astoria, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $19.04.
Where is the cheapest piccata 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 piccata cost here? About $19.95 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 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 Astoria, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $19.04. That is $3.09 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.
| Area | Best price | Typical | Places |
|---|---|---|---|
| Long Island City, NY this page |
$15.95 | $19.95 | 3 |
| Astoria, NY
Bel-Aire Diner · about 2 mi away |
$19.04 | $25.95 | 6 |
| West New York, NJ
Original Presto's Pizza · about 4 mi away |
$11.95 | $14.95 | 3 |
| New York, NY
Venezia Pizza · about 4 mi away |
$10.00 | $22.75 | 68 |
| Fort Lee, NJ
Pizza King · about 7 mi away |
$17.95 | $23.34 | 3 |
| Ozone Park, NY
Romeo's Pizzeria · about 8 mi away |
$16.50 | $24.50 | 5 |
| Lyndhurst, NJ
Pizza Lino · about 10 mi away |
$15.50 | $22.99 | 8 |
| Hackensack, NJ
Taste of Tuscany · about 10 mi away |
$18.95 | $20.99 | 5 |
| Bayonne, NJ
Mama Rosa · about 11 mi away |
$9.95 | $17.00 | 5 |
| Belleville, NJ
Gino's Pizza & Ristorante · about 11 mi away |
$12.95 | $19.95 | 4 |
| Clifton, NJ
Tony's Pizza Pasta Grill · about 13 mi away |
$17.45 | $19.99 | 4 |
| Yonkers, NY
Mickey's Pizzeria · about 13 mi away |
$16.50 | $23.10 | 13 |
| Valley Stream, NY
Family Pizzeria · about 14 mi away |
$19.50 | $21.95 | 3 |
Items are grouped by dish, so names vary a little between restaurants. Each price is what that menu listed on the date shown beside it, not a daily special, so a restaurant may have changed it since. The typical price is the middle of every price we hold for this dish in Long Island City.