Parmigiana in Montclair

12 restaurants in Montclair list parmigiana on their menus. The cheapest is Mr. Dino's Pizzeria at $12.50, listed as Chicken Parmigiana. The typical price across town is $17.99, and the dearest we found is $28.00 at Italiana by Zod, so the two ends of the list are $15.50 apart, which is 124% more for the same dish. Of the 12 kitchens listed, 6 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 1 sits within a dollar of it and 5 charge more than a dollar over.

We track parmigiana in 730 other areas and compare them all on parmigiana across United States. The typical price there runs $18.49 at the median, so Montclair is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 403 of the 730. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.25 at Lione's Pizza in Downingtown, PA, and the highest best price is $24.95 in Mount Sinai, NY. The nearest area with it is Bloomfield, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $13.50.

Where is the cheapest parmigiana in Montclair? Mr. Dino's Pizzeria, at $12.50 on 119 Watchung Avenue. The same dish reaches $28.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $15.50.

What should parmigiana cost here? About $17.99 is the typical price across the 12 kitchens in Montclair that list it. Of the ones listed above, 6 are more than a dollar below that and 5 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 Bloomfield, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $13.50. That is $1.00 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.