Cheese Ravioli in Northbrook

3 restaurants in Northbrook list cheese ravioli on their menus. The cheapest is Marisa's Pizza at $9.99. The typical price across town is $12.09, and the dearest we found is $17.99 at Chicago Pizza Authority, so the two ends of the list are $8.00 apart, which is 80% more for the same dish. Of the 3 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 1 sits within a dollar of it and 1 charges more than a dollar over.

We track cheese ravioli in 193 other areas and compare them all on cheese ravioli across United States. The typical price there runs $15.99 at the median, so Northbrook is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 183 of the 193. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $7.50 at Picatta Pizza & Pasta in Houston, TX, and the highest best price is $20.00 in Ventnor City, NJ. The nearest area with it is Arlington Heights, about 8 mi away, where the best price is $13.99.

Where is the cheapest cheese ravioli in Northbrook? Marisa's Pizza, at $9.99 on 4175 Dundee Rd. The same dish reaches $17.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $8.00.

What should cheese ravioli cost here? About $12.09 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Northbrook that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is more than a dollar below that and 1 is 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 Arlington Heights, about 8 mi away, where the best price is $13.99. 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.