Piccata in Valley Stream

3 restaurants in Valley Stream list piccata on their menus. The cheapest is Family Pizzeria at $19.50, listed as Veal Piccata. The typical price across town is $21.95, and the dearest we found is $22.00 at Sicilia D'Oro IV, so the two ends of the list are $2.50 apart, which is 13% more for the same dish. Of the 3 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 0 charge more than a dollar over.

We track piccata in 156 other areas and compare them all on piccata across United States. The typical price there runs $22.00 at the median, so Valley Stream is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 80 of the 156. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $9.95 at Joe's Pizza, Pasta & Subs in Fort Worth, TX, and the highest best price is $26.50 in Hampton Bays, NY. The nearest area with it is Franklin Square, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $22.99.

Where is the cheapest piccata in Valley Stream? Family Pizzeria, at $19.50 on 130 Mill Rd. The same dish reaches $22.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $2.50.

What should piccata cost here? About $21.95 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Valley Stream that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is more than a dollar below that and 0 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 Franklin Square, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $22.99. That is $3.49 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.