Pizza in Santa Monica

6 restaurants in Santa Monica list pizza on their menus. The cheapest is Fresh Brothers - Santa Monica at $10.49, listed as Cheese Pizza. The typical price across town is $24.00, and the dearest we found is $35.00 at Ivy at the Shore, so the two ends of the list are $24.51 apart, which is 234% more for the same dish. Of the 6 kitchens listed, 3 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 1 charges 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 Santa Monica is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 3 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 Marina del Rey, about 4 mi away, where the best price is $11.38.

Where is the cheapest pizza in Santa Monica? Fresh Brothers - Santa Monica, at $10.49 on 1447 Lincoln Blvd. The same dish reaches $35.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $24.51.

What should pizza cost here? About $24.00 is the typical price across the 6 kitchens in Santa Monica that list it. Of the ones listed above, 3 are 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 Marina del Rey, about 4 mi away, where the best price is $11.38. That is $0.89 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.