Fettuccine Alfredo in St. James

3 restaurants in St. James list fettuccine alfredo on their menus. The cheapest is Rocco's Pizza at $13.52. The typical price across town is $17.95, and the dearest we found is $20.99 at Spuntino St James, so the two ends of the list are $7.47 apart, which is 55% 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 fettuccine alfredo in 191 other areas and compare them all on fettuccine alfredo across United States. The typical price there runs $16.95 at the median, so St. James is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 64 of the 191. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $5.00 at Crave Italian Oven & Bar in North Myrtle Beach, SC, and the highest best price is $19.99 in Torrington, CT. The nearest area with it is Hauppauge, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $16.00.

Where is the cheapest fettuccine alfredo in St. James? Rocco's Pizza, at $13.52 on 429 NY-25A. The same dish reaches $20.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $7.47.

What should fettuccine alfredo cost here? About $17.95 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in St. James 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 Hauppauge, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $16.00. That is $2.48 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.