Garlic Knots in Los Angeles

20 restaurants in Los Angeles list garlic knots on their menus. The cheapest is Noname Pizza at $4.00. The typical price across town is $7.25, and the dearest we found is $12.99 at Alessandros Pizza Italian Restaurant, so the two ends of the list are $8.99 apart, which is 225% more for the same dish. Of the 20 kitchens listed, 6 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 8 sit within a dollar of it and 6 charge more than a dollar over.

We track garlic knots in 174 other areas and compare them all on garlic knots across United States. The typical price there runs $6.95 at the median, so Los Angeles is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 67 of the 174. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Fratelli's Pizza & Pasta in Clifton, NJ, and the highest best price is $9.99 in Thousand Oaks, CA. The nearest area with it is Manhattan Beach, about 13 mi away, where the best price is $6.75.

Where is the cheapest garlic knots in Los Angeles? Noname Pizza, at $4.00 on 3111 Glendale Blvd #4. The same dish reaches $12.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $8.99.

What should garlic knots cost here? About $7.25 is the typical price across the 20 kitchens in Los Angeles that list it. Of the ones listed above, 6 are more than a dollar below that and 6 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 Manhattan Beach, about 13 mi away, where the best price is $6.75. That is $2.75 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.