Calzone in Seattle

20 restaurants in Seattle list calzone on their menus. The cheapest is Magnolia Pizza & Pasta at $10.99, listed as Build Your Own Calzone. The typical price across town is $16.99, and the dearest we found is $21.95 at Palermo Pizza & Pasta Capitol Hill, so the two ends of the list are $10.96 apart, which is 100% more for the same dish. Of the 20 kitchens listed, 8 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 5 sit within a dollar of it and 7 charge more than a dollar over.

We track calzone in 747 other areas and compare them all on calzone across United States. The typical price there runs $12.99 at the median, so Seattle is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 28 of the 747. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Catania's Pizza in Yonkers, NY, and the highest best price is $15.99 in Eustis, FL. The nearest area with it is Everett, about 23 mi away, where the best price is $10.99.

Where is the cheapest calzone in Seattle? Magnolia Pizza & Pasta, at $10.99 on 2120 West Emerson Pl. The same dish reaches $21.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $10.96.

What should calzone cost here? About $16.99 is the typical price across the 20 kitchens in Seattle that list it. Of the ones listed above, 8 are more than a dollar below that and 7 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 Everett, about 23 mi away, where the best price is $10.99. That is the same as 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.