Pizza in San Antonio

34 restaurants in San Antonio list pizza on their menus. The cheapest is Chicago's Pizza at $5.24, listed as Cheese Pizza. The typical price across town is $13.25, and the dearest we found is $32.00 at Pizzeria Vesuvio, so the two ends of the list are $26.76 apart, which is 511% more for the same dish. Of the 34 kitchens listed, 14 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 8 sit within a dollar of it and 12 charge more than a dollar over.

We track pizza in 1060 other areas and compare them all on pizza across United States. The typical price there runs $13.95 at the median, so San Antonio is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 591 of the 1060. 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 Austin, about 72 mi away, where the best price is $8.99.

Where is the cheapest pizza in San Antonio? Chicago's Pizza, at $5.24 on 5525 Blanco Rd. The same dish reaches $32.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $26.76.

What should pizza cost here? About $13.25 is the typical price across the 34 kitchens in San Antonio that list it. Of the ones listed above, 14 are more than a dollar below that and 12 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 Austin, about 72 mi away, where the best price is $8.99. That is $3.75 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.