Calzone in Los Angeles

44 restaurants in Los Angeles list calzone on their menus, and the 40 cheapest are listed above. The cheapest is Pizza Wagon of Brooklyn at $7.50. The typical price across town is $13.99, and the dearest of the 40 listed is $17.99 at Alfred's Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $10.49 apart, which is 140% more for the same dish. Of the 40 kitchens listed, 20 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 9 sit within a dollar of it and 11 charge more than a dollar over.

We track calzone in 747 other areas and compare them all on calzone across United States. The typical price there runs $12.99 at the median, so Los Angeles is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 231 of the 747. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Catania's Pizza in Yonkers, NY, and the highest best price is $15.99 in Eustis, FL. The nearest area with it is West Hollywood, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $7.99.

Where is the cheapest calzone in Los Angeles? Pizza Wagon of Brooklyn, at $7.50 on 14522 1/2 Ventura Blvd. The same dish reaches $17.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $10.49.

What should calzone cost here? About $13.99 is the typical price across the 44 kitchens in Los Angeles that list it. Of the ones listed above, 20 are more than a dollar below that and 11 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 West Hollywood, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $7.99. That is $0.49 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.