3 restaurants in Middletown list pasta fagioli soup on their menus. The cheapest is Toscanella Village Cafe at $4.00. The typical price across town is $6.50, and the dearest we found is $8.35 at Tre Colore Pizzeria, so the two ends of the list are $4.35 apart, which is 109% more for the same dish. Of the 3 kitchens listed, 1 charges 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 pasta fagioli soup in 73 other areas and compare them all on pasta fagioli soup across United States. The typical price there runs $7.75 at the median, so Middletown is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 66 of the 73. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Casa Mia in Sparta, NJ, and the highest best price is $7.99 in Miller Place, NY. The nearest area with it is Keyport, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $4.95.
Where is the cheapest pasta fagioli soup in Middletown? Toscanella Village Cafe, at $4.00 on 102 Kings Hwy. The same dish reaches $8.35 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $4.35.
What should pasta fagioli soup cost here? About $6.50 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Middletown 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 Keyport, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $4.95. That is $0.95 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Middletown, NJ this page |
$4.00 | $6.50 | 3 |
| Keyport, NJ
Brianni's Pizza · about 5 mi away |
$4.95 | $6.95 | 4 |
| Sayreville, NJ
Rustoni's Pizza · about 12 mi away |
$6.50 | $7.60 | 3 |
| Manalapan Township, NJ
Dusal's Italian Restaurant & Pizzeria · about 12 mi away |
$4.70 | $6.25 | 3 |
| Freehold, NJ
Romeo's Pizza · about 13 mi away |
$6.00 | $8.00 | 5 |
| Wall Township, NJ
Attilio's of Wall · about 17 mi away |
$5.63 | $7.50 | 3 |
| Edison, NJ
Ferraro1061 · about 17 mi away |
$6.50 | $9.95 | 4 |
| Linden, NJ
Tucky's Pizza · about 18 mi away |
$5.95 | $7.30 | 3 |
| Bayonne, NJ
Mike's Pizzeria & Italian Restaurant · about 18 mi away |
$5.00 | $8.95 | 6 |
| North Brunswick, NJ
Roberto's Restaurant · about 20 mi away |
$5.95 | $7.40 | 3 |
| South Plainfield, NJ
Rodolfo's Pizzeria · about 20 mi away |
$5.50 | $6.50 | 3 |
| Piscataway, NJ
Stelton Pizza · about 20 mi away |
$5.24 | $8.25 | 4 |
| Cranford, NJ
Vinny's Pizza & Pasta · about 21 mi away |
$4.95 | $7.20 | 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 Middletown.