5 restaurants in Methuen list pasta and meatballs on their menus. The cheapest is Route 97 House of Pizza at $12.95, listed as Pasta with Meatballs. The typical price across town is $15.39, and the dearest we found is $17.25 at Supreme Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $4.30 apart, which is 33% more for the same dish. Of the 5 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 3 sit within a dollar of it and 1 charges more than a dollar over.
We track pasta and meatballs in 115 other areas and compare them all on pasta and meatballs across United States. The typical price there runs $16.50 at the median, so Methuen is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 86 of the 115. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $8.00 at Prince of Pizza in Jersey City, NJ, and the highest best price is $22.00 in Boca Raton, FL. The nearest area with it is Dracut, about 9 mi away, where the best price is $12.99.
Where is the cheapest pasta and meatballs in Methuen? Route 97 House of Pizza, at $12.95 on 11 Ayers Village Rd. The same dish reaches $17.25 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $4.30.
What should pasta and meatballs cost here? About $15.39 is the typical price across the 5 kitchens in Methuen that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is 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 Dracut, about 9 mi away, where the best price is $12.99. That is $0.04 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.
| Area | Best price | Typical | Places |
|---|---|---|---|
| Methuen, MA this page |
$12.95 | $15.39 | 5 |
| Dracut, MA
G & G Quick Bite · about 9 mi away |
$12.99 | $14.95 | 3 |
| Peabody, MA
Brother's Roast Beef & Seafood · about 18 mi away |
$12.95 | $13.99 | 3 |
| Arlington, MA
Olympic Pizza · about 22 mi away |
$15.99 | $17.00 | 4 |
| Revere, MA
Revere House of Pizza · about 24 mi away |
$15.50 | $16.50 | 3 |
| Cambridge, MA
Kendall House of Pizza · about 25 mi away |
$12.95 | $14.99 | 5 |
| Jamaica Plain, MA
Zesto's Pizza & Grille · about 29 mi away |
$14.95 | $18.25 | 4 |
| Natick, MA
Liberty's Pizza of Natick · about 32 mi away |
$14.99 | $16.40 | 3 |
| Stoughton, MA
Old Country Pizzeria · about 42 mi away |
$12.25 | $15.20 | 3 |
| Worcester, MA
Restaurant Pizza Works · about 46 mi away |
$10.99 | $12.95 | 8 |
| Woonsocket, RI
MVP Pizzeria · about 53 mi away |
$10.99 | $12.99 | 5 |
| Providence, RI
Milano's Pizza · about 64 mi away |
$12.99 | $15.95 | 4 |
| Warwick, RI
Post Road Pizza · about 71 mi away |
$11.99 | $13.99 | 4 |
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 Methuen.