Lasagna in Roanoke

4 restaurants in Roanoke list lasagna on their menus. The cheapest is Basil Pizza Roanoke at $12.49. The typical price across town is $17.00, and the dearest we found is $17.95 at Tony Avellinos, so the two ends of the list are $5.46 apart, which is 44% more for the same dish. Of the 4 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 0 charge more than a dollar over.

We track lasagna in 610 other areas and compare them all on lasagna across United States. The typical price there runs $17.50 at the median, so Roanoke is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 324 of the 610. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $6.00 at Vitale's Sports Bar Ada in Grand Rapids, MI, and the highest best price is $26.00 in Memphis, TN. The nearest area with it is Salem, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $14.67.

Where is the cheapest lasagna in Roanoke? Basil Pizza Roanoke, at $12.49 on 3403 Williamson Rd. The same dish reaches $17.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $5.46.

What should lasagna cost here? About $17.00 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Roanoke that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 are 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 Salem, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $14.67. That is $2.18 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.