Spaghetti in Pittsburgh

15 restaurants in Pittsburgh list spaghetti on their menus. The cheapest is Pietro's Pizzeria at $7.95. The typical price across town is $14.30, and the dearest we found is $20.99 at Pizza Bellino, so the two ends of the list are $13.04 apart, which is 164% more for the same dish. Of the 15 kitchens listed, 6 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 6 sit within a dollar of it and 3 charge more than a dollar over.

We track spaghetti in 50 other areas and compare them all on spaghetti across United States. The typical price there runs $12.75 at the median, so Pittsburgh is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 11 of the 50. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.90 at Pavone's Pizza in Syracuse, NY, and the highest best price is $15.99 in Jacksonville, FL. The nearest area with it is Cleveland, about 114 mi away, where the best price is $8.80.

Where is the cheapest spaghetti in Pittsburgh? Pietro's Pizzeria, at $7.95 on 719 W Ingomar Rd. The same dish reaches $20.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $13.04.

What should spaghetti cost here? About $14.30 is the typical price across the 15 kitchens in Pittsburgh that list it. Of the ones listed above, 6 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 Cleveland, about 114 mi away, where the best price is $8.80. That is $0.85 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.