Calzone in Pittsburgh

45 restaurants in Pittsburgh list calzone on their menus, and the 40 cheapest are listed above. The cheapest is Bellisario's Pizza Palace at $9.00, listed as Pizza Calzone. The typical price across town is $16.49, and the dearest of the 40 listed is $20.70 at Italian Village Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $11.70 apart, which is 130% more for the same dish. Of the 40 kitchens listed, 18 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 10 sit within a dollar of it and 12 charge more than a dollar over.

We track calzone in 747 other areas and compare them all on calzone across United States. The typical price there runs $12.99 at the median, so Pittsburgh is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 43 of the 747. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Catania's Pizza in Yonkers, NY, and the highest best price is $15.99 in Eustis, FL. The nearest area with it is Carnegie, about 6 mi away, where the best price is $11.55.

Where is the cheapest calzone in Pittsburgh? Bellisario's Pizza Palace, at $9.00 on 437 McNeilly Rd. The same dish reaches $20.70 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $11.70.

What should calzone cost here? About $16.49 is the typical price across the 45 kitchens in Pittsburgh that list it. Of the ones listed above, 18 are more than a dollar below that and 12 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 Carnegie, about 6 mi away, where the best price is $11.55. 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.