Ravioli in New York

65 restaurants in New York list ravioli on their menus, and the 40 cheapest are listed above. The cheapest is The Pizza Block at $8.00. The typical price across town is $15.40, and the dearest of the 40 listed is $16.00 at Giardini Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $8.00 apart, which is 100% more for the same dish. Of the 40 kitchens listed, 27 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 13 sit within a dollar of it and 0 charge more than a dollar over.

We track ravioli in 38 other areas and compare them all on ravioli across United States. The typical price there runs $16.00 at the median, so New York is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 21 of the 38. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.55 at Pizza Peddler in Natick, MA, and the highest best price is $17.00 in Medford, NJ. The nearest area with it is Rego Park, about 6 mi away, where the best price is $10.00.

Where is the cheapest ravioli in New York? The Pizza Block, at $8.00 on 5677 Riverdale Ave. The same dish reaches $16.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $8.00.

What should ravioli cost here? About $15.40 is the typical price across the 65 kitchens in New York that list it. Of the ones listed above, 27 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 Rego Park, about 6 mi away, where the best price is $10.00. That is $2.00 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.