Ravioli in Raleigh

4 restaurants in Raleigh list ravioli on their menus. The cheapest is Slice of New York Pizza at $11.99. The typical price across town is $18.38, and the dearest we found is $22.00 at Assaggio's Italian Restaurant, so the two ends of the list are $10.01 apart, which is 83% 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 Raleigh is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 6 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 Myrtle Beach, about 147 mi away, where the best price is $12.50.

Where is the cheapest ravioli in Raleigh? Slice of New York Pizza, at $11.99 on 2316 Hillsborough St. The same dish reaches $22.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $10.01.

What should ravioli cost here? About $18.38 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Raleigh 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 Myrtle Beach, about 147 mi away, where the best price is $12.50. That is $0.51 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.