Garlic Bread in McLean

4 restaurants in McLean list garlic bread on their menus. The cheapest is Lost Dog Cafe at $4.25. The typical price across town is $7.99, and the dearest we found is $9.00 at Pulcinella Italian Kitchen, so the two ends of the list are $4.75 apart, which is 112% more for the same dish. Of the 4 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 1 sits within a dollar of it and 1 charges more than a dollar over.

We track garlic bread in 315 other areas and compare them all on garlic bread across United States. The typical price there runs $6.25 at the median, so McLean is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 28 of the 315. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Fortunato Brothers Pizza in Baltimore, MD, and the highest best price is $7.99 in Manchester, NH. The nearest area with it is Arlington, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $4.25.

Where is the cheapest garlic bread in McLean? Lost Dog Cafe, at $4.25 on 1690 Anderson Road. The same dish reaches $9.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $4.75.

What should garlic bread cost here? About $7.99 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in McLean that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 are more than a dollar below that and 1 is 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 Arlington, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $4.25. That is the same as 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.