Calamari in Norwalk

9 restaurants in Norwalk list calamari on their menus. The cheapest is Norwalk Pizza & Pasta at $11.00, listed as Fried Calamari. The typical price across town is $14.50, and the dearest we found is $18.00 at Elm Street Diner, so the two ends of the list are $7.00 apart, which is 64% more for the same dish. Of the 9 kitchens listed, 3 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 3 sit within a dollar of it and 3 charge more than a dollar over.

We track calamari in 493 other areas and compare them all on calamari across United States. The typical price there runs $15.45 at the median, so Norwalk is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 339 of the 493. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.50 at French Quarter Grille in Austin, TX, and the highest best price is $19.75 in Harwood Heights, IL. The nearest area with it is Westport, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $15.99.

Where is the cheapest calamari in Norwalk? Norwalk Pizza & Pasta, at $11.00 on 13 Winfield St. The same dish reaches $18.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $7.00.

What should calamari cost here? About $14.50 is the typical price across the 9 kitchens in Norwalk that list it. Of the ones listed above, 3 are more than a dollar below that and 3 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 Westport, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $15.99. That is $4.99 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.