Wings in Somerville

15 restaurants in Somerville list wings on their menus. The cheapest is Don Julio Restaurant at $9.49, listed as Chicken Wings. The typical price across town is $13.99, and the dearest we found is $22.00 at Mike's Food & Spirits, so the two ends of the list are $12.51 apart, which is 132% more for the same dish. Of the 15 kitchens listed, 6 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 4 sit within a dollar of it and 5 charge more than a dollar over.

We track wings in 969 other areas and compare them all on wings across United States. The typical price there runs $12.98 at the median, so Somerville is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 273 of the 969. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.25 at Uno Pizza in Philadelphia, PA, and the highest best price is $17.55 in Paramus, NJ. The nearest area with it is Cambridge, about 1 mi away, where the best price is $9.50.

Where is the cheapest wings in Somerville? Don Julio Restaurant, at $9.49 on 514 Medford St. The same dish reaches $22.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $12.51.

What should wings cost here? About $13.99 is the typical price across the 15 kitchens in Somerville that list it. Of the ones listed above, 6 are more than a dollar below that and 5 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 Cambridge, about 1 mi away, where the best price is $9.50. That is $0.01 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.