Pizza in Los Angeles

103 restaurants in Los Angeles list pizza on their menus, and the 40 cheapest are listed above. The cheapest is Varilla Pizza & Pasta at $5.00, listed as White Pizza. The typical price across town is $14.00, and the dearest of the 40 listed is $12.99 at Antojitos Y Pizzeria, so the two ends of the list are $7.99 apart, which is 160% more for the same dish. Of the 40 kitchens listed, 40 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 0 sit within a dollar of it and 0 charge more than a dollar over.

We track pizza in 1058 other areas and compare them all on pizza across United States. The typical price there runs $13.95 at the median, so Los Angeles is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 418 of the 1058. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.49 at Bellacino's Pizza & Grinders in Troy, MI, and the highest best price is $18.00 in Tacoma, WA. The nearest area with it is West Hollywood, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $9.99.

Where is the cheapest pizza in Los Angeles? Varilla Pizza & Pasta, at $5.00 on 1011 S Alvarado St. The same dish reaches $12.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $7.99.

What should pizza cost here? About $14.00 is the typical price across the 103 kitchens in Los Angeles that list it. Of the ones listed above, 40 are 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 West Hollywood, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $9.99. That is $4.99 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.