Calamari in Patchogue

8 restaurants in Patchogue list calamari on their menus. The cheapest is Dirty Taco + Tequila Patchogue at $7.50, listed as Crispy Calamari. The typical price across town is $18.00, and the dearest we found is $21.63 at Ruta Oaxaca Mexican Cuisine - Patchogue, so the two ends of the list are $14.13 apart, which is 188% more for the same dish. Of the 8 kitchens listed, 4 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 3 sit within a dollar of it and 1 charges more than a dollar over.

We track calamari in 495 other areas and compare them all on calamari across United States. The typical price there runs $15.37 at the median, so Patchogue is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 55 of the 495. 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 Bayport, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $15.85.

Where is the cheapest calamari in Patchogue? Dirty Taco + Tequila Patchogue, at $7.50 on 32 W Main St. The same dish reaches $21.63 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $14.13.

What should calamari cost here? About $18.00 is the typical price across the 8 kitchens in Patchogue that list it. Of the ones listed above, 4 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 Bayport, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $15.85. That is $8.35 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.