Marsala in Los Angeles

8 restaurants in Los Angeles list marsala on their menus. The cheapest is Asparagus Pizza at $16.75, listed as Chicken Marsala. The typical price across town is $21.50, and the dearest we found is $26.95 at Frankie's on Melrose, so the two ends of the list are $10.20 apart, which is 61% more for the same dish. Of the 8 kitchens listed, 4 charge 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 marsala in 402 other areas and compare them all on marsala across United States. The typical price there runs $21.95 at the median, so Los Angeles is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 221 of the 402. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $8.00 at Italian Corner Deli by Massimo in Trumbull, CT, and the highest best price is $32.00 in Red Bank, NJ. The nearest area with it is Orange, about 36 mi away, where the best price is $17.95.

Where is the cheapest marsala in Los Angeles? Asparagus Pizza, at $16.75 on 1809 N Cahuenga Blvd. The same dish reaches $26.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $10.20.

What should marsala cost here? About $21.50 is the typical price across the 8 kitchens in Los Angeles that list it. Of the ones listed above, 4 are 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 Orange, about 36 mi away, where the best price is $17.95. That is $1.20 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.