Parmigiana in Princeton

3 restaurants in Princeton list parmigiana on their menus. The cheapest is Valentino's Pizzeria & Trattoria at $10.99, listed as Chicken Parmigiana. The typical price across town is $24.15, and the dearest we found is $27.00 at Teresa's Pizza | Wine Bar, so the two ends of the list are $16.01 apart, which is 146% 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 parmigiana in 730 other areas and compare them all on parmigiana across United States. The typical price there runs $18.49 at the median, so Princeton is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 33 of the 730. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.25 at Lione's Pizza in Downingtown, PA, and the highest best price is $24.95 in Mount Sinai, NY. The nearest area with it is Plainsboro Center, about 4 mi away, where the best price is $13.99.

Where is the cheapest parmigiana in Princeton? Valentino's Pizzeria & Trattoria, at $10.99 on 110 Rockingham Row. The same dish reaches $27.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $16.01.

What should parmigiana cost here? About $24.15 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Princeton 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 Plainsboro Center, about 4 mi away, where the best price is $13.99. That is $3.00 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.