3 restaurants in Natick list pasta and meatballs on their menus. The cheapest is Liberty's Pizza of Natick at $14.99, listed as Pasta with Meatballs. The typical price across town is $16.40, and the dearest we found is $19.19 at Pizza Shop at South Natick, so the two ends of the list are $4.20 apart, which is 28% 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 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 Natick is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 62 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 Jamaica Plain, about 13 mi away, where the best price is $14.95.
Where is the cheapest pasta and meatballs in Natick? Liberty's Pizza of Natick, at $14.99 on 2 Mill St. The same dish reaches $19.19 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $4.20.
What should pasta and meatballs cost here? About $16.40 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Natick 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 Jamaica Plain, about 13 mi away, where the best price is $14.95. That is $0.04 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Natick, MA this page |
$14.99 | $16.40 | 3 |
| Jamaica Plain, MA
Zesto's Pizza & Grille · about 13 mi away |
$14.95 | $18.25 | 4 |
| Arlington, MA
Olympic Pizza · about 13 mi away |
$15.99 | $17.00 | 4 |
| Cambridge, MA
Kendall House of Pizza · about 14 mi away |
$12.95 | $14.99 | 5 |
| Stoughton, MA
Old Country Pizzeria · about 17 mi away |
$12.25 | $15.20 | 3 |
| Revere, MA
Revere House of Pizza · about 20 mi away |
$15.50 | $16.50 | 3 |
| Woonsocket, RI
MVP Pizzeria · about 21 mi away |
$10.99 | $12.99 | 5 |
| Worcester, MA
Restaurant Pizza Works · about 23 mi away |
$10.99 | $12.95 | 8 |
| Peabody, MA
Brother's Roast Beef & Seafood · about 26 mi away |
$12.95 | $13.99 | 3 |
| Dracut, MA
G & G Quick Bite · about 26 mi away |
$12.99 | $14.95 | 3 |
| Methuen, MA
Route 97 House of Pizza · about 32 mi away |
$12.95 | $15.39 | 5 |
| Providence, RI
Milano's Pizza · about 32 mi away |
$12.99 | $15.95 | 4 |
| Warwick, RI
Post Road Pizza · about 39 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 Natick.