Stromboli in Pittsburgh

26 restaurants in Pittsburgh list stromboli on their menus. The cheapest is Pietro's Pizzeria at $9.99, listed as Original Stromboli. The typical price across town is $15.40, and the dearest we found is $20.59 at Pizza Palermo, so the two ends of the list are $10.60 apart, which is 106% more for the same dish. Of the 26 kitchens listed, 10 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 7 sit within a dollar of it and 9 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 Pittsburgh is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 105 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 Penn Hills, about 10 mi away, where the best price is $12.79.

Where is the cheapest stromboli in Pittsburgh? Pietro's Pizzeria, at $9.99 on 719 W Ingomar Rd. The same dish reaches $20.59 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $10.60.

What should stromboli cost here? About $15.40 is the typical price across the 26 kitchens in Pittsburgh that list it. Of the ones listed above, 10 are more than a dollar below that and 9 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 Penn Hills, about 10 mi away, where the best price is $12.79. That is $2.80 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.