3 restaurants in Plainsboro Center list piccata on their menus. The cheapest is Aljon's Pizza at $17.99, listed as Chicken Piccata. The typical price across town is $19.49, and the dearest we found is $20.50 at Casa Rosaria's, so the two ends of the list are $2.51 apart, which is 14% more for the same dish. Of the 3 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 1 sits within a dollar of it and 1 charges more than a dollar over.
We track piccata in 154 other areas and compare them all on piccata across United States. The typical price there runs $22.00 at the median, so Plainsboro Center is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 124 of the 154. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $9.95 at Joe's Pizza, Pasta & Subs in Fort Worth, TX, and the highest best price is $26.50 in Hampton Bays, NY. The nearest area with it is Cranbury, about 4 mi away, where the best price is $18.00.
Where is the cheapest piccata in Plainsboro Center? Aljon's Pizza, at $17.99 on 660 Plainsboro Rd. The same dish reaches $20.50 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $2.51.
What should piccata cost here? About $19.49 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Plainsboro Center that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is more than a dollar below that and 1 is 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 Cranbury, about 4 mi away, where the best price is $18.00. That is $0.01 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.
| Area | Best price | Typical | Places |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plainsboro Center, NJ this page |
$17.99 | $19.49 | 3 |
| Cranbury, NJ
Tony's Open Kitchen by Scotto · about 4 mi away |
$18.00 | $21.95 | 4 |
| Monroe Township, NJ
D & T Pizza Restaurant · about 6 mi away |
$12.95 | $15.95 | 3 |
| Lawrenceville, NJ
Limoncello's 2 Italian Grill Restaurant · about 8 mi away |
$16.99 | $18.99 | 3 |
| Hamilton, NJ
The Best Brothers Pizzeria & Restaurant · about 11 mi away |
$17.95 | $20.00 | 3 |
| East Brunswick, NJ
Michelangelo's Pizza · about 13 mi away |
$18.50 | $22.99 | 3 |
| Millstone, NJ
Tre Colore Pizzeria & Restaurant · about 13 mi away |
$13.95 | $19.95 | 3 |
| Somerset, NJ
Somerset Pizza & Restaurant · about 13 mi away |
$13.20 | $21.50 | 6 |
| Piscataway, NJ
Otto's Pizza & Pasta · about 17 mi away |
$20.95 | $22.15 | 4 |
| Freehold, NJ
Mateo's Pizzeria · about 18 mi away |
$16.95 | $21.95 | 4 |
| Edison, NJ
Tony's Italian Restaurant & Pizza · about 18 mi away |
$19.95 | $20.95 | 5 |
| Flemington, NJ
Joe's Pizzaria & Restaurant · about 19 mi away |
$19.50 | $20.95 | 3 |
| South Plainfield, NJ
Tony's Pizza & Restaurant · about 19 mi away |
$17.95 | $22.00 | 4 |
Items are grouped by dish, so names vary a little between restaurants. Each price is what that menu listed on the date shown beside it, not a daily special, so a restaurant may have changed it since. The typical price is the middle of every price we hold for this dish in Plainsboro Center.