Chicken Kabob in Somerville

5 restaurants in Somerville list chicken kabob on their menus. The cheapest is Falafel Place at $14.50, listed as Chicken Kabob Plate. The typical price across town is $17.95, and the dearest we found is $19.45 at Mama Gina's Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $4.95 apart, which is 34% more for the same dish. Of the 5 kitchens listed, 2 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 chicken kabob in 21 other areas and compare them all on chicken kabob across United States. The typical price there runs $17.99 at the median, so Somerville is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 11 of the 21. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $10.00 at Makarios in Birmingham, AL, and the highest best price is $18.70 in Abington, MA. The nearest area with it is Cambridge, about 1 mi away, where the best price is $10.25.

Where is the cheapest chicken kabob in Somerville? Falafel Place, at $14.50 on 1 Main St. The same dish reaches $19.45 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $4.95.

What should chicken kabob cost here? About $17.95 is the typical price across the 5 kitchens in Somerville 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 Cambridge, about 1 mi away, where the best price is $10.25. That is $4.25 less than the best here, though whether that is worth the journey is your call.

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.