Spicy Fries in Somerville

5 restaurants in Somerville list spicy fries on their menus. The cheapest is Curry Express at $4.95. The typical price across town is $5.99, and the dearest we found is $8.15 at White Sport Pizza & Subs, so the two ends of the list are $3.20 apart, which is 65% more for the same dish. Of the 5 kitchens listed, 1 charges 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 spicy fries in 8 other areas and compare them all on spicy fries across United States. The typical price there runs $7.75 at the median, so Somerville is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 7 of the 8. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.49 at Angelina's Pizza & Subs in Lowell, MA, and the highest best price is $8.49 in North Pembroke, MA. The nearest area with it is Dorchester, about 6 mi away, where the best price is $4.99.

Where is the cheapest spicy fries in Somerville? Curry Express, at $4.95 on 147 Highland Ave. The same dish reaches $8.15 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $3.20.

What should spicy fries cost here? About $5.99 is the typical price across the 5 kitchens in Somerville 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 Dorchester, about 6 mi away, where the best price is $4.99. That is $0.04 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.