Marsala in Silver Spring

3 restaurants in Silver Spring list marsala on their menus. The cheapest is Vicino Restaurante Italiano at $16.80, listed as Chicken Marsala. The typical price across town is $20.00, and the dearest we found is $29.50 at District Bistro, so the two ends of the list are $12.70 apart, which is 76% more for the same dish. Of the 3 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 1 sits within a dollar of it and 1 charges more than a dollar over.

We track marsala in 402 other areas and compare them all on marsala across United States. The typical price there runs $21.95 at the median, so Silver Spring is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 283 of the 402. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $8.00 at Italian Corner Deli by Massimo in Trumbull, CT, and the highest best price is $32.00 in Red Bank, NJ. The nearest area with it is Laurel, about 10 mi away, where the best price is $16.99.

Where is the cheapest marsala in Silver Spring? Vicino Restaurante Italiano, at $16.80 on 959 Sligo Ave. The same dish reaches $29.50 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $12.70.

What should marsala cost here? About $20.00 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Silver Spring that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is 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 Laurel, about 10 mi away, where the best price is $16.99. That is $0.19 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.