Fettuccine Alfredo in New York

80 restaurants in New York list fettuccine alfredo on their menus, and the 40 cheapest are listed above. The cheapest is 3 Bros Pizza & Tacos at $8.60. The typical price across town is $16.45, and the dearest of the 40 listed is $16.00 at Sedgwick Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $7.40 apart, which is 86% more for the same dish. Of the 40 kitchens listed, 33 charge 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 fettuccine alfredo in 191 other areas and compare them all on fettuccine alfredo across United States. The typical price there runs $16.95 at the median, so New York is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 106 of the 191. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $5.00 at Crave Italian Oven & Bar in North Myrtle Beach, SC, and the highest best price is $19.99 in Torrington, CT. The nearest area with it is Maspeth, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $9.50.

Where is the cheapest fettuccine alfredo in New York? 3 Bros Pizza & Tacos, at $8.60 on 840 River Ave. The same dish reaches $16.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $7.40.

What should fettuccine alfredo cost here? About $16.45 is the typical price across the 80 kitchens in New York that list it. Of the ones listed above, 33 are 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 Maspeth, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $9.50. That is $0.90 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.