Calamari in New York

157 restaurants in New York list calamari on their menus, and the 40 cheapest are listed above. The cheapest is Frank's Pizza at $8.00. The typical price across town is $16.95, and the dearest of the 40 listed is $14.00 at Princess Pizzeria & Restaurant, so the two ends of the list are $6.00 apart, which is 75% more for the same dish. Of the 40 kitchens listed, 40 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 0 sit within a dollar of it and 0 charge more than a dollar over.

We track calamari in 495 other areas and compare them all on calamari across United States. The typical price there runs $15.45 at the median, so New York is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 123 of the 495. 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 Maspeth, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $12.00.

Where is the cheapest calamari in New York? Frank's Pizza, at $8.00 on 8025 Flatlands Ave. The same dish reaches $14.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $6.00.

What should calamari cost here? About $16.95 is the typical price across the 157 kitchens in New York that list it. Of the ones listed above, 40 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 $12.00. That is $4.00 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.