Spaghetti And Meatballs in Saint Louis

5 restaurants in Saint Louis list spaghetti and meatballs on their menus. The cheapest is Ari's Restaurant and Bar at $9.99, listed as Spaghetti & Meatballs. The typical price across town is $16.50, and the dearest we found is $20.99 at Rigazzi's, so the two ends of the list are $11.00 apart, which is 110% more for the same dish. Of the 5 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 1 sits within a dollar of it and 2 charge more than a dollar over.

We track spaghetti and meatballs in 215 other areas and compare them all on spaghetti and meatballs across United States. The typical price there runs $15.99 at the median, so Saint Louis is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 90 of the 215. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $6.40 at Pavone's Pizza in Syracuse, NY, and the highest best price is $22.00 in Delray Beach, FL. The nearest area with it is Champaign, about 148 mi away, where the best price is $10.00.

Where is the cheapest spaghetti and meatballs in Saint Louis? Ari's Restaurant and Bar, at $9.99 on 3101 Hampton Avenue. The same dish reaches $20.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $11.00.

What should spaghetti and meatballs cost here? About $16.50 is the typical price across the 5 kitchens in Saint Louis that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 are more than a dollar below that and 2 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 $10.00. That is $0.01 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.