Minestrone Soup in Riverhead

3 restaurants in Riverhead list minestrone soup on their menus. The cheapest is Cucina 25 at $5.50. The typical price across town is $7.00, and the dearest we found is $9.53 at Rocco's Pizza & Pasta, so the two ends of the list are $4.03 apart, which is 73% 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 minestrone soup in 45 other areas and compare them all on minestrone soup across United States. The typical price there runs $8.25 at the median, so Riverhead is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 38 of the 45. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.35 at Italian Delight in Powhatan, VA, and the highest best price is $9.00 in Franklin Square, NY. The nearest area with it is Coram, about 18 mi away, where the best price is $6.76.

Where is the cheapest minestrone soup in Riverhead? Cucina 25, at $5.50 on 12 W Main St. The same dish reaches $9.53 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $4.03.

What should minestrone soup cost here? About $7.00 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Riverhead 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 Coram, about 18 mi away, where the best price is $6.76. That is $1.26 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.