3 restaurants in Long Island City list pasta and meatballs on their menus. The cheapest is La Mia Pizza at $14.50, listed as Pasta with Meatballs. The typical price across town is $16.95, and the dearest we found is $17.50 at Centro Pizza Bar & Italian Kitchen, so the two ends of the list are $3.00 apart, which is 21% more for the same dish. Of the 3 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 0 charge more than a dollar over.
We track pasta and meatballs in 115 other areas and compare them all on pasta and meatballs across United States. The typical price there runs $16.50 at the median, so Long Island City is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 50 of the 115. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $8.00 at Prince of Pizza in Jersey City, NJ, and the highest best price is $22.00 in Boca Raton, FL. The nearest area with it is Jackson Heights, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $16.00.
Where is the cheapest pasta and meatballs in Long Island City? La Mia Pizza, at $14.50 on 1580 1st Avenue. The same dish reaches $17.50 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $3.00.
What should pasta and meatballs cost here? About $16.95 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 0 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 Jackson Heights, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $16.00. That is $1.50 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 |
$14.50 | $16.95 | 3 |
| Jackson Heights, NY
Gianni's Pizza · about 3 mi away |
$16.00 | $18.75 | 3 |
| Weehawken, NJ
Michael's Pizza & Wings · about 4 mi away |
$11.00 | $15.99 | 3 |
| New York, NY
Flaco's Pizza · about 4 mi away |
$9.50 | $15.25 | 61 |
| Ridgewood, NY
La Bella Pizza and Chicken · about 4 mi away |
$14.00 | $16.95 | 4 |
| Union City, NJ
UC Pizza · about 4 mi away |
$10.99 | $17.00 | 3 |
| Flushing, NY
Bellerose Famous Pizza · about 7 mi away |
$13.00 | $14.95 | 8 |
| Ozone Park, NY
Vincent & Andrea's · about 8 mi away |
$13.95 | $16.00 | 5 |
| Lyndhurst, NJ
Pizza Lino · about 10 mi away |
$8.95 | $16.15 | 5 |
| Queens Village, NY
Big John's Pizza & Pasta · about 11 mi away |
$10.95 | $12.95 | 3 |
| Bloomfield, NJ
Turtle's Pizzeria · about 13 mi away |
$16.00 | $19.60 | 4 |
| New Rochelle, NY
CSF Family's Pizzeria · about 14 mi away |
$16.00 | $18.00 | 4 |
| Elizabeth, NJ
Tommy's Pizzeria & Restaurant · about 15 mi away |
$11.50 | $14.00 | 5 |
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.