Pasta And Meatballs in Ridgewood

4 restaurants in Ridgewood list pasta and meatballs on their menus. The cheapest is La Bella Pizza and Chicken at $14.00, listed as Pasta with Meatballs. The typical price across town is $16.95, and the dearest we found is $17.00 at Joe & John's Pizzeria, so the two ends of the list are $3.00 apart, which is 21% more for the same dish. Of the 4 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 3 sit within a dollar of it and 0 charge more than a dollar over.

We track pasta and meatballs in 115 other areas and compare them all on pasta and meatballs across United States. The typical price there runs $16.50 at the median, so Ridgewood is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 50 of the 115. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $8.00 at Prince of Pizza in Jersey City, NJ, and the highest best price is $22.00 in Boca Raton, FL. The nearest area with it is New York, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $9.50.

Where is the cheapest pasta and meatballs in Ridgewood? La Bella Pizza and Chicken, at $14.00 on 975 Seneca Avenue. The same dish reaches $17.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $3.00.

What should pasta and meatballs cost here? About $16.95 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Ridgewood that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is more than a dollar below that and 0 are 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 New York, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $9.50. That is $4.50 less than the best here, though whether that is worth the journey is your call.

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.