Fettuccine Alfredo in Seattle

6 restaurants in Seattle list fettuccine alfredo on their menus. The cheapest is Magnolia Pizza & Pasta at $12.95. The typical price across town is $17.99, and the dearest we found is $21.99 at Saffron Grill, so the two ends of the list are $9.04 apart, which is 70% more for the same dish. Of the 6 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 3 sit within a dollar of it and 1 charges more than a dollar over.

We track fettuccine alfredo in 191 other areas and compare them all on fettuccine alfredo across United States. The typical price there runs $16.95 at the median, so Seattle is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 57 of the 191. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $5.00 at Crave Italian Oven & Bar in North Myrtle Beach, SC, and the highest best price is $19.99 in Torrington, CT. The nearest area with it is San Francisco, about 681 mi away, where the best price is $13.95.

Where is the cheapest fettuccine alfredo in Seattle? Magnolia Pizza & Pasta, at $12.95 on 2120 West Emerson Pl. The same dish reaches $21.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $9.04.

What should fettuccine alfredo cost here? About $17.99 is the typical price across the 6 kitchens in Seattle that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 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 San Francisco, about 681 mi away, where the best price is $13.95. That is $1.00 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.