5 restaurants in Long Island City list eggplant roll on their menus. The cheapest is La Mia Pizza at $7.95. The typical price across town is $9.95, and the dearest we found is $12.50 at Centro Pizza Bar & Italian Kitchen, so the two ends of the list are $4.55 apart, which is 57% more for the same dish. Of the 5 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 2 charge more than a dollar over.
We track eggplant roll in 22 other areas and compare them all on eggplant roll across United States. The typical price there runs $9.95 at the median, so Long Island City is about average, with a lower typical price than 9 of the 22. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $5.50 at Grace Pizzeria in Glendale, NY, and the highest best price is $10.95 in Mahwah, NJ. The nearest area with it is Astoria, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $6.75.
Where is the cheapest eggplant roll in Long Island City? La Mia Pizza, at $7.95 on 1580 1st Avenue. The same dish reaches $12.50 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $4.55.
What should eggplant roll cost here? About $9.95 is the typical price across the 5 kitchens in Long Island City that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is more than a dollar below that and 2 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 Astoria, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $6.75. That is $1.20 less than the best here, though whether that is worth the journey is your call.
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 |
$7.95 | $9.95 | 5 |
| Astoria, NY
Sergio's Pizza & Gourmet Eatery · about 2 mi away |
$6.75 | $9.50 | 8 |
| Woodside, NY
Woodside Pizza Restaurant · about 3 mi away |
$7.50 | $8.50 | 5 |
| Ridgewood, NY
Corato I Pizza & Restaurant · about 4 mi away |
$7.00 | $9.00 | 7 |
| Glendale, NY
Grace Pizzeria · about 5 mi away |
$5.50 | $8.00 | 3 |
| Forest Hills, NY
Bravo Pizzeria · about 6 mi away |
$7.00 | $9.55 | 3 |
| Flushing, NY
Whitepoint Pizza Restaurant · about 7 mi away |
$7.75 | $9.25 | 10 |
| Ozone Park, NY
Tommy's Pizza · about 8 mi away |
$7.50 | $9.00 | 4 |
| Jamaica, NY
Mario's Pizza · about 9 mi away |
$8.00 | $9.50 | 4 |
| Far Rockaway, NY
Central Pizza · about 14 mi away |
$8.50 | $10.00 | 3 |
| Valley Stream, NY
Family Pizzeria · about 14 mi away |
$7.99 | $9.00 | 3 |
| Franklin Square, NY
Olivetto Pizzeria & Ristorante · about 15 mi away |
$8.83 | $10.75 | 4 |
| Westbury, NY
Pizza Cucina Latina · about 19 mi away |
$8.50 | $11.95 | 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.