Home Fries in Long Island City

4 restaurants in Long Island City list home fries on their menus. The cheapest is Canyon Road Bar & Grill at $5.00. The typical price across town is $9.95, and the dearest we found is $11.00 at Fandi Mata, so the two ends of the list are $6.00 apart, which is 120% more for the same dish. Of the 4 kitchens listed, 2 charge 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 home fries in 2 other areas and compare them all on home fries across United States. The typical price there runs $6.00 at the median, so Long Island City is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 0 of the 2. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.15 at Arthur Jaxon AJ's Slice and Scoop in Rochester, NY, and the highest best price is $5.00 in Norwalk, CT. The nearest area with it is Norwalk, about 37 mi away, where the best price is $5.00.

Where is the cheapest home fries in Long Island City? Canyon Road Bar & Grill, at $5.00 on 1470 1st Avenue. The same dish reaches $11.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $6.00.

What should home fries cost here? About $9.95 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Long Island City that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 are 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 Norwalk, about 37 mi away, where the best price is $5.00. That is the same as 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.