Calamari in New Rochelle

7 restaurants in New Rochelle list calamari on their menus. The cheapest is Deanna's Pizzeria & Restaurant at $11.95, listed as Fried Calamari. The typical price across town is $14.99, and the dearest we found is $19.99 at The Mirage Restaurant & Café, so the two ends of the list are $8.04 apart, which is 67% more for the same dish. Of the 7 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 3 sit within a dollar of it and 2 charge more than a dollar over.

We track calamari in 493 other areas and compare them all on calamari across United States. The typical price there runs $15.45 at the median, so New Rochelle is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 294 of the 493. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.50 at French Quarter Grille in Austin, TX, and the highest best price is $19.75 in Harwood Heights, IL. The nearest area with it is Mount Vernon, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $12.99.

Where is the cheapest calamari in New Rochelle? Deanna's Pizzeria & Restaurant, at $11.95 on 1284 North Ave. The same dish reaches $19.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $8.04.

What should calamari cost here? About $14.99 is the typical price across the 7 kitchens in New Rochelle that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 are more than a dollar below that and 2 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 Mount Vernon, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $12.99. That is $1.04 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.