Marsala in Patchogue

4 restaurants in Patchogue list marsala on their menus. The cheapest is Nino's Pizzeria at $19.95, listed as Chicken Marsala. The typical price across town is $23.99, and the dearest we found is $25.15 at Giovanni's Pizzeria & Restaurant, so the two ends of the list are $5.20 apart, which is 26% more for the same dish. Of the 4 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 1 charges more than a dollar over.

We track marsala in 402 other areas and compare them all on marsala across United States. The typical price there runs $21.95 at the median, so Patchogue is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 103 of the 402. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $8.00 at Italian Corner Deli by Massimo in Trumbull, CT, and the highest best price is $32.00 in Red Bank, NJ. The nearest area with it is Bayport, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $20.70.

Where is the cheapest marsala in Patchogue? Nino's Pizzeria, at $19.95 on 580 Medford Ave. The same dish reaches $25.15 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $5.20.

What should marsala cost here? About $23.99 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Patchogue 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 Bayport, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $20.70. That is $0.75 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.