61 restaurants in New York list pasta and meatballs on their menus, and the 40 cheapest are listed above. The cheapest is Flaco's Pizza at $9.50, listed as Pasta with Meatballs. The typical price across town is $15.25, and the dearest of the 40 listed is $16.80 at Royal Kings Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $7.30 apart, which is 77% more for the same dish. Of the 40 kitchens listed, 20 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 18 sit within a dollar of it and 2 charge more than a dollar over.
We track pasta and meatballs in 115 other areas and compare them all on pasta and meatballs across United States. The typical price there runs $16.50 at the median, so New York is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 87 of the 115. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $8.00 at Prince of Pizza in Jersey City, NJ, and the highest best price is $22.00 in Boca Raton, FL. The nearest area with it is Ridgewood, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $14.00.
Where is the cheapest pasta and meatballs in New York? Flaco's Pizza, at $9.50 on 3876 Broadway. The same dish reaches $16.80 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $7.30.
What should pasta and meatballs cost here? About $15.25 is the typical price across the 61 kitchens in New York that list it. Of the ones listed above, 20 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 Ridgewood, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $14.00. That is $4.50 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.
| Area | Best price | Typical | Places |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York, NY this page |
$9.50 | $15.25 | 61 |
| Ridgewood, NY
La Bella Pizza and Chicken · about 3 mi away |
$14.00 | $16.95 | 4 |
| Long Island City, NY
La Mia Pizza · about 4 mi away |
$14.50 | $16.95 | 3 |
| Weehawken, NJ
Michael's Pizza & Wings · about 6 mi away |
$11.00 | $15.99 | 3 |
| Union City, NJ
UC Pizza · about 6 mi away |
$10.99 | $17.00 | 3 |
| Jackson Heights, NY
Gianni's Pizza · about 6 mi away |
$16.00 | $18.75 | 3 |
| Ozone Park, NY
Vincent & Andrea's · about 7 mi away |
$13.95 | $16.00 | 5 |
| Flushing, NY
Bellerose Famous Pizza · about 9 mi away |
$13.00 | $14.95 | 8 |
| Lyndhurst, NJ
Pizza Lino · about 11 mi away |
$8.95 | $16.15 | 5 |
| Queens Village, NY
Big John's Pizza & Pasta · about 12 mi away |
$10.95 | $12.95 | 3 |
| Elizabeth, NJ
Tommy's Pizzeria & Restaurant · about 12 mi away |
$11.50 | $14.00 | 5 |
| Bloomfield, NJ
Turtle's Pizzeria · about 14 mi away |
$16.00 | $19.60 | 4 |
| Linden, NJ
Two Tony's Pizza · about 15 mi away |
$12.95 | $14.75 | 5 |
Items are grouped by dish, so names vary a little between restaurants. Each price is what that menu listed on the date shown beside it, not a daily special, so a restaurant may have changed it since. The typical price is the middle of every price we hold for this dish in New York.