Spaghetti And Meatballs in Philadelphia

71 restaurants in Philadelphia list spaghetti and meatballs on their menus, and the 40 cheapest are listed above. The cheapest is Baby Boss Pizza & Grill at $8.50, listed as Spaghetti with Meatballs. The typical price across town is $14.65, and the dearest of the 40 listed is $14.95 at City Star Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $6.45 apart, which is 76% more for the same dish. Of the 40 kitchens listed, 28 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 12 sit within a dollar of it and 0 charge more than a dollar over.

We track spaghetti and meatballs in 215 other areas and compare them all on spaghetti and meatballs across United States. The typical price there runs $15.99 at the median, so Philadelphia is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 173 of the 215. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $6.40 at Pavone's Pizza in Syracuse, NY, and the highest best price is $22.00 in Delray Beach, FL. The nearest area with it is Cinnaminson, about 7 mi away, where the best price is $14.99.

Where is the cheapest spaghetti and meatballs in Philadelphia? Baby Boss Pizza & Grill, at $8.50 on 4625 Princeton Ave. The same dish reaches $14.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $6.45.

What should spaghetti and meatballs cost here? About $14.65 is the typical price across the 71 kitchens in Philadelphia that list it. Of the ones listed above, 28 are more than a dollar below that and 0 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 Cinnaminson, about 7 mi away, where the best price is $14.99. That is $6.49 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.