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101 restaurants in New York list spaghetti and meatballs on their menus, and the 40 cheapest are listed above. The cheapest is My Family Pizza & Chicken at $9.95, listed as Spaghetti & Meatballs. The typical price across town is $17.19, and the dearest of the 40 listed is $16.25 at 2 Doors Cafe & Pizzeria, so the two ends of the list are $6.30 apart, which is 63% more for the same dish. Of the 40 kitchens listed, 39 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 1 sits within a dollar of it and 0 charge more than a dollar over.
We track spaghetti and meatballs in 215 other areas and compare them all on spaghetti and meatballs across United States. The typical price there runs $15.99 at the median, so New York is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 69 of the 215. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $6.40 at Pavone's Pizza in Syracuse, NY, and the highest best price is $22.00 in Delray Beach, FL. The nearest area with it is Ridgewood, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $12.65.
Where is the cheapest spaghetti and meatballs in New York? My Family Pizza & Chicken, at $9.95 on 1211 Castleton Ave. The same dish reaches $16.25 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $6.30.
What should spaghetti and meatballs cost here? About $17.19 is the typical price across the 101 kitchens in New York that list it. Of the ones listed above, 39 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 $12.65. That is $2.70 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 |
$9.95 | $17.19 | 101 |
| Ridgewood, NY
Juanito's Pizza · about 3 mi away |
$12.65 | $18.00 | 5 |
| Hoboken, NJ
Imposto's Pizza · about 4 mi away |
$19.95 | $22.00 | 3 |
| Woodside, NY
Gino's Pizzeria · about 5 mi away |
$13.50 | $15.00 | 5 |
| Union City, NJ
Sam's Pizza · about 6 mi away |
$12.50 | $16.09 | 5 |
| Astoria, NY
Sergio's Pizza & Gourmet Eatery · about 6 mi away |
$10.00 | $16.50 | 7 |
| Rego Park, NY
J & D Pizza · about 6 mi away |
$14.95 | $16.95 | 3 |
| Guttenberg, NJ
Antonio's Pizzeria · about 7 mi away |
$15.00 | $18.50 | 3 |
| Forest Hills, NY
Pizza & Pasta City · about 7 mi away |
$10.99 | $15.95 | 5 |
| Fairview, NJ
Garden Pizza · about 8 mi away |
$14.00 | $16.09 | 3 |
| Jamaica, NY
Alba's Pizzeria & Restaurant · about 10 mi away |
$12.50 | $15.00 | 3 |
| Newark, NJ
Queen Pizza & Deli · about 11 mi away |
$9.95 | $14.41 | 8 |
| Ridgefield Park, NJ
Little Italy Pizzeria & Restaurant · about 11 mi away |
$16.95 | $21.88 | 3 |
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.