Garlic Knots in New Haven

8 restaurants in New Haven list garlic knots on their menus. The cheapest is Family Mediterranean Pizza at $4.95. The typical price across town is $8.95, and the dearest we found is $13.95 at New Haven Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $9.00 apart, which is 182% more for the same dish. Of the 8 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 3 sit within a dollar of it and 3 charge more than a dollar over.

We track garlic knots in 174 other areas and compare them all on garlic knots across United States. The typical price there runs $6.95 at the median, so New Haven is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 24 of the 174. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Fratelli's Pizza & Pasta in Clifton, NJ, and the highest best price is $9.99 in Thousand Oaks, CA. The nearest area with it is West Haven, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $8.50.

Where is the cheapest garlic knots in New Haven? Family Mediterranean Pizza, at $4.95 on 45 York St. The same dish reaches $13.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $9.00.

What should garlic knots cost here? About $8.95 is the typical price across the 8 kitchens in New Haven that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 are more than a dollar below that and 3 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 $8.50. That is $3.55 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.