Curly Fries in New Haven

8 restaurants in New Haven list curly fries on their menus. The cheapest is Gennaro's Pizza at $5.82. The typical price across town is $8.40, and the dearest we found is $9.25 at New Haven Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $3.43 apart, which is 59% more for the same dish. Of the 8 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 7 sit within a dollar of it and 0 charge more than a dollar over.

We track curly fries in 49 other areas and compare them all on curly fries across United States. The typical price there runs $7.25 at the median, so New Haven is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 5 of the 49. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Papa Nick's Pizza in Philadelphia, PA, and the highest best price is $7.20 in Wildwood, NJ. The nearest area with it is West Haven, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $6.05.

Where is the cheapest curly fries in New Haven? Gennaro's Pizza, at $5.82 on 888 Howard Ave. The same dish reaches $9.25 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $3.43.

What should curly fries cost here? About $8.40 is the typical price across the 8 kitchens in New Haven that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is more than a dollar below that and 0 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 West Haven, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $6.05. That is $0.23 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.