Lasagna in San Francisco

32 restaurants in San Francisco list lasagna on their menus. The cheapest is Limoncello at $12.95, listed as Veggie Lasagna. The typical price across town is $17.11, and the dearest we found is $27.03 at North Beach Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $14.08 apart, which is 109% more for the same dish. Of the 32 kitchens listed, 13 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 5 sit within a dollar of it and 14 charge more than a dollar over.

We track lasagna in 609 other areas and compare them all on lasagna across United States. The typical price there runs $17.50 at the median, so San Francisco is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 321 of the 609. 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 San Bruno, about 10 mi away, where the best price is $18.99.

Where is the cheapest lasagna in San Francisco? Limoncello, at $12.95 on 2862 24th St. The same dish reaches $27.03 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $14.08.

What should lasagna cost here? About $17.11 is the typical price across the 32 kitchens in San Francisco that list it. Of the ones listed above, 13 are more than a dollar below that and 14 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 San Bruno, about 10 mi away, where the best price is $18.99. That is $6.04 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.