Piccata in Norwalk

5 restaurants in Norwalk list piccata on their menus. The cheapest is Slice of Italy at $21.99, listed as Chicken Piccata. The typical price across town is $25.50, and the dearest we found is $27.99 at Leonardo's, so the two ends of the list are $6.00 apart, which is 27% more for the same dish. Of the 5 kitchens listed, 3 charge 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 piccata in 154 other areas and compare them all on piccata across United States. The typical price there runs $21.99 at the median, so Norwalk is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 26 of the 154. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $9.95 at Joe's Pizza, Pasta & Subs in Fort Worth, TX, and the highest best price is $26.50 in Hampton Bays, NY. The nearest area with it is Fairfield, about 9 mi away, where the best price is $24.99.

Where is the cheapest piccata in Norwalk? Slice of Italy, at $21.99 on 79 Washington St. The same dish reaches $27.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $6.00.

What should piccata cost here? About $25.50 is the typical price across the 5 kitchens in Norwalk that list it. Of the ones listed above, 3 are 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 Fairfield, about 9 mi away, where the best price is $24.99. That is $3.00 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.