Chicken Tikka Masala in Malden

3 restaurants in Malden list chicken tikka masala on their menus. The cheapest is Jay's Pizza & Ice Cream at $15.99. The typical price across town is $18.95, and the dearest we found is $19.54 at Everest Momo & Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $3.55 apart, which is 22% 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 chicken tikka masala in 3 other areas and compare them all on chicken tikka masala across United States. The typical price there runs $18.45 at the median, so Malden is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 1 of the 3. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $9.95 at Salt and Pepper Grill in Washington, DC, and the highest best price is $19.95 in Columbia, MD. The nearest area with it is Columbia, about 376 mi away, where the best price is $19.95.

Where is the cheapest chicken tikka masala in Malden? Jay's Pizza & Ice Cream, at $15.99 on 167 Centre St. The same dish reaches $19.54 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $3.55.

What should chicken tikka masala cost here? About $18.95 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Malden 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 Columbia, about 376 mi away, where the best price is $19.95. That is $3.96 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.