Plain Steak in Philadelphia

59 restaurants in Philadelphia list plain steak on their menus, and the 40 cheapest are listed above. The cheapest is Don Giovanni's II at $7.40. The typical price across town is $11.34, and the dearest of the 40 listed is $12.59 at Noah's Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $5.19 apart, which is 70% more for the same dish. Of the 40 kitchens listed, 19 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 18 sit within a dollar of it and 3 charge more than a dollar over.

We track plain steak in 3 other areas and compare them all on plain steak across United States. The typical price there runs $11.75 at the median, so Philadelphia is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 3 of the 3. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $9.95 at Brothers Pizza & Restaurant in Drexel Hill, PA, and the highest best price is $11.25 in Boyertown, PA. The nearest area with it is Drexel Hill, about 9 mi away, where the best price is $9.95.

Where is the cheapest plain steak in Philadelphia? Don Giovanni's II, at $7.40 on 2900 Levick St. The same dish reaches $12.59 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $5.19.

What should plain steak cost here? About $11.34 is the typical price across the 59 kitchens in Philadelphia that list it. Of the ones listed above, 19 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 Drexel Hill, about 9 mi away, where the best price is $9.95. That is $2.55 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.