Meatball Grinder in Portland

3 restaurants in Portland list meatball grinder on their menus. The cheapest is Pizzeria Da Vinci at $8.70. The typical price across town is $10.45, and the dearest we found is $13.95 at Tommy's Pizza Palace, so the two ends of the list are $5.25 apart, which is 60% 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 meatball grinder in 10 other areas and compare them all on meatball grinder across United States. The typical price there runs $10.99 at the median, so Portland is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 6 of the 10. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $7.45 at Pepperoni's Pizza in Simsbury, CT, and the highest best price is $10.45 in West Hartford, CT. The nearest area with it is Newington, about 10 mi away, where the best price is $8.95.

Where is the cheapest meatball grinder in Portland? Pizzeria Da Vinci, at $8.70 on 363 W High St. The same dish reaches $13.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $5.25.

What should meatball grinder cost here? About $10.45 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Portland 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 Newington, about 10 mi away, where the best price is $8.95. That is $0.25 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.