4 restaurants in Mechanicsburg list piccata on their menus. The cheapest is DaVinci Italian Eatery at $20.10, listed as Chicken Piccata. The typical price across town is $26.00, and the dearest we found is $29.00 at Luna Italian Cuisine, so the two ends of the list are $8.90 apart, which is 44% 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 piccata in 154 other areas and compare them all on piccata across United States. The typical price there runs $21.99 at the median, so Mechanicsburg is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 14 of the 154. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $9.95 at Joe's Pizza, Pasta & Subs in Fort Worth, TX, and the highest best price is $26.50 in Hampton Bays, NY. The nearest area with it is Newark, about 76 mi away, where the best price is $16.99.
Where is the cheapest piccata in Mechanicsburg? DaVinci Italian Eatery, at $20.10 on 6617 Carlisle Pike. The same dish reaches $29.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $8.90.
What should piccata cost here? About $26.00 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Mechanicsburg 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 Newark, about 76 mi away, where the best price is $16.99. That is $3.11 less than the best here, though whether that is worth the journey is your call.
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.
| Area | Best price | Typical | Places |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mechanicsburg, PA this page |
$20.10 | $26.00 | 4 |
| Newark, DE
Rudy's Pizza & Italian Bistro · about 76 mi away |
$16.99 | $19.99 | 6 |
| West Chester, PA
Gramm's Kitchen · about 76 mi away |
$20.99 | $26.00 | 5 |
| Emmaus, PA
Armetta's Italian Restaurant & Pub · about 82 mi away |
$21.00 | $23.99 | 3 |
| Collegeville, PA
The Pizza Stop · about 82 mi away |
$18.99 | $24.50 | 3 |
| Allentown, PA
Nick's Bistro & Pizzeria · about 83 mi away |
$18.80 | $22.40 | 18 |
| Palmerton, PA
Tony's Pizza · about 83 mi away |
$17.85 | $21.95 | 3 |
| Harleysville, PA
Laura's Pizzeria And Restaurant · about 85 mi away |
$20.75 | $21.99 | 4 |
| Annapolis, MD
Little Italy Annapolis · about 89 mi away |
$11.99 | $14.99 | 5 |
| Bethlehem, PA
Sorella's Pizza & Pasta · about 90 mi away |
$11.31 | $20.95 | 11 |
| Arlington, VA
Federico Ristorante Italiano · about 91 mi away |
$13.95 | $19.99 | 4 |
| Perkasie, PA
Bravo's Pizza · about 91 mi away |
$17.99 | $24.00 | 4 |
| Bath, PA
Bracco's · about 92 mi away |
$18.75 | $20.40 | 3 |
Items are grouped by dish, so names vary a little between restaurants. Each price is what that menu listed on the date shown beside it, not a daily special, so a restaurant may have changed it since. The typical price is the middle of every price we hold for this dish in Mechanicsburg.