3 restaurants in Tempe list calamari fritti on their menus. The cheapest is Cafe Boa at $13.00. The typical price across town is $16.00, and the dearest we found is $18.95 at Vincitorio's Restaurant, so the two ends of the list are $5.95 apart, which is 46% 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 calamari fritti in 6 other areas and compare them all on calamari fritti across United States. The typical price there runs $17.98 at the median, so Tempe is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 5 of the 6. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $11.00 at Belmont Pizzeria in Richmond, VA, and the highest best price is $17.95 in Red Bank, NJ. The nearest area with it is Kansas City, about 1042 mi away, where the best price is $15.00.
Where is the cheapest calamari fritti in Tempe? Cafe Boa, at $13.00 on 398 South Mill Avenue. The same dish reaches $18.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $5.95.
What should calamari fritti cost here? About $16.00 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Tempe 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 Kansas City, about 1042 mi away, where the best price is $15.00. That is $2.00 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.
| Area | Best price | Typical | Places |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tempe, AZ this page |
$13.00 | $16.00 | 3 |
| Kansas City, MO
Jasper's Italian Restaurant · about 1042 mi away |
$15.00 | $17.00 | 3 |
| Key West, FL
New York Pasta Garden · about 1914 mi away |
$13.95 | $18.00 | 3 |
| Richmond, VA
Belmont Pizzeria · about 1944 mi away |
$11.00 | $12.50 | 7 |
| Miami, FL
The River Oyster Bar · about 1965 mi away |
$12.00 | $17.00 | 5 |
| Alexandria, VA
Delia's Brick Oven Pizza · about 1969 mi away |
$16.00 | $17.98 | 4 |
| Red Bank, NJ
La Pastaria · about 2130 mi away |
$17.95 | $20.00 | 3 |
Items are grouped by dish, so names vary a little between restaurants. Each price is what that menu listed on the date shown beside it, not a daily special, so a restaurant may have changed it since. The typical price is the middle of every price we hold for this dish in Tempe.