Pizza in Saint Louis

14 restaurants in Saint Louis list pizza on their menus. The cheapest is Hampton Hill Pizza at $8.49, listed as Cheese Pizza. The typical price across town is $12.99, and the dearest we found is $15.00 at Pizzeria da Gloria, so the two ends of the list are $6.51 apart, which is 77% more for the same dish. Of the 14 kitchens listed, 6 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 4 sit within a dollar of it and 4 charge more than a dollar over.

We track pizza in 1058 other areas and compare them all on pizza across United States. The typical price there runs $13.95 at the median, so Saint Louis is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 650 of the 1058. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.49 at Bellacino's Pizza & Grinders in Troy, MI, and the highest best price is $18.00 in Tacoma, WA. The nearest area with it is Champaign, about 148 mi away, where the best price is $12.35.

Where is the cheapest pizza in Saint Louis? Hampton Hill Pizza, at $8.49 on 2801 Hampton Ave. The same dish reaches $15.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $6.51.

What should pizza cost here? About $12.99 is the typical price across the 14 kitchens in Saint Louis that list it. Of the ones listed above, 6 are more than a dollar below that and 4 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 Champaign, about 148 mi away, where the best price is $12.35. That is $3.86 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.