Stromboli in Philadelphia

207 restaurants in Philadelphia list stromboli on their menus, and the 40 cheapest are listed above. The cheapest is Torresdale Pizza & Beer at $7.00. The typical price across town is $13.99, and the dearest of the 40 listed is $11.19 at Giovanni's Pizzeria, so the two ends of the list are $4.19 apart, which is 60% more for the same dish. Of the 40 kitchens listed, 40 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 0 sit within a dollar of it and 0 charge more than a dollar over.

We track stromboli in 456 other areas and compare them all on stromboli across United States. The typical price there runs $13.95 at the median, so Philadelphia is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 188 of the 456. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.50 at Da Vinci Pizzeria in New York, NY, and the highest best price is $18.29 in Cape May, NJ. The nearest area with it is Camden, about 4 mi away, where the best price is $7.95.

Where is the cheapest stromboli in Philadelphia? Torresdale Pizza & Beer, at $7.00 on 6301 Torresdale Ave. The same dish reaches $11.19 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $4.19.

What should stromboli cost here? About $13.99 is the typical price across the 207 kitchens in Philadelphia that list it. Of the ones listed above, 40 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 Camden, about 4 mi away, where the best price is $7.95. That is $0.95 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.