Spaghetti Bolognese in Ridgewood

3 restaurants in Ridgewood list spaghetti bolognese on their menus. The cheapest is Ace Pizza & Pasta at $11.00. The typical price across town is $16.00, and the dearest we found is $18.95 at Julie's, so the two ends of the list are $7.95 apart, which is 72% 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 spaghetti bolognese in 6 other areas and compare them all on spaghetti bolognese across United States. The typical price there runs $20.63 at the median, so Ridgewood is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 5 of the 6. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $9.99 at Vittoria Pasta & Pizza Co in Kissimmee, FL, and the highest best price is $15.99 in Hummelstown, PA. The nearest area with it is Hummelstown, about 150 mi away, where the best price is $15.99.

Where is the cheapest spaghetti bolognese in Ridgewood? Ace Pizza & Pasta, at $11.00 on 6104 Myrtle Ave. The same dish reaches $18.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $7.95.

What should spaghetti bolognese cost here? About $16.00 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Ridgewood 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 Hummelstown, about 150 mi away, where the best price is $15.99. That is $4.99 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.