Truffle Fries in Matawan

3 restaurants in Matawan list truffle fries on their menus. The cheapest is Panini Bistro at $5.75. The typical price across town is $12.00, and the dearest we found is $13.00 at Patrizia's Of Matawan, so the two ends of the list are $7.25 apart, which is 126% 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 truffle fries in 5 other areas and compare them all on truffle fries across United States. The typical price there runs $10.00 at the median, so Matawan is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 0 of the 5. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $5.25 at Hamburger Mary's in Denver, CO, and the highest best price is $9.00 in Hoboken, NJ. The nearest area with it is Hoboken, about 25 mi away, where the best price is $9.00.

Where is the cheapest truffle fries in Matawan? Panini Bistro, at $5.75 on 745 NJ-34. The same dish reaches $13.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $7.25.

What should truffle fries cost here? About $12.00 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Matawan 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 Hoboken, about 25 mi away, where the best price is $9.00. That is $3.25 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.