Ravioli in Portland

4 restaurants in Portland list ravioli on their menus. The cheapest is Mama Mia at $10.00. The typical price across town is $22.00, and the dearest we found is $29.00 at Serratto, so the two ends of the list are $19.00 apart, which is 190% more for the same dish. Of the 4 kitchens listed, 2 charge 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 ravioli in 38 other areas and compare them all on ravioli across United States. The typical price there runs $15.99 at the median, so Portland is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 0 of the 38. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.55 at Pizza Peddler in Natick, MA, and the highest best price is $17.00 in Medford, NJ. The nearest area with it is San Mateo, about 551 mi away, where the best price is $12.09.

Where is the cheapest ravioli in Portland? Mama Mia, at $10.00 on 439 Southwest 2nd Avenue. The same dish reaches $29.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $19.00.

What should ravioli cost here? About $22.00 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Portland that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 are 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 San Mateo, about 551 mi away, where the best price is $12.09. That is $2.09 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.