Garlic Bread in New York

70 restaurants in New York list garlic bread on their menus, and the 40 cheapest are listed above. The cheapest is Sofia Pizza at $4.00. The typical price across town is $6.24, and the dearest of the 40 listed is $6.59 at Da Bianca Pizzeria, so the two ends of the list are $2.59 apart, which is 65% more for the same dish. Of the 40 kitchens listed, 21 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 19 sit within a dollar of it and 0 charge more than a dollar over.

We track garlic bread in 315 other areas and compare them all on garlic bread across United States. The typical price there runs $6.25 at the median, so New York is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 163 of the 315. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Fortunato Brothers Pizza in Baltimore, MD, and the highest best price is $7.99 in Manchester, NH. The nearest area with it is Ridgewood, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $4.00.

Where is the cheapest garlic bread in New York? Sofia Pizza, at $4.00 on 2580 Coney Island Ave. The same dish reaches $6.59 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $2.59.

What should garlic bread cost here? About $6.24 is the typical price across the 70 kitchens in New York that list it. Of the ones listed above, 21 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 Ridgewood, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $4.00. That is the same as 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.