Grilled Chicken in Montclair

4 restaurants in Montclair list grilled chicken on their menus. The cheapest is Tinga Taqueria at $7.25. The typical price across town is $9.00, and the dearest we found is $21.00 at Soho Pizza & Grill, so the two ends of the list are $13.75 apart, which is 190% more for the same dish. Of the 4 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 1 charges more than a dollar over.

We track grilled chicken in 94 other areas and compare them all on grilled chicken across United States. The typical price there runs $13.00 at the median, so Montclair is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 86 of the 94. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Fresco Market & Catering in Caldwell, NJ, and the highest best price is $15.99 in Chelmsford, MA. The nearest area with it is Verona, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $12.75.

Where is the cheapest grilled chicken in Montclair? Tinga Taqueria, at $7.25 on 215 Bellevue Avenue. The same dish reaches $21.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $13.75.

What should grilled chicken cost here? About $9.00 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Montclair 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 Verona, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $12.75. That is $5.50 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.