Pizza in Seattle

36 restaurants in Seattle list pizza on their menus. The cheapest is Eyman's Pizza at $9.00, listed as Cheese Pizza. The typical price across town is $16.99, and the dearest we found is $24.00 at Sammie Bodega, so the two ends of the list are $15.00 apart, which is 167% more for the same dish. Of the 36 kitchens listed, 10 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 14 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 Seattle is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 110 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 Bellevue, about 9 mi away, where the best price is $9.00.

Where is the cheapest pizza in Seattle? Eyman's Pizza, at $9.00 on 6711 Martin Luther King Jr Way S. The same dish reaches $24.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $15.00.

What should pizza cost here? About $16.99 is the typical price across the 36 kitchens in Seattle that list it. Of the ones listed above, 10 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 Bellevue, about 9 mi away, where the best price is $9.00. 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.