Stromboli in Washington

6 restaurants in Washington list stromboli on their menus. The cheapest is Little Italy Brick Oven at $10.95, listed as Italian Stromboli. The typical price across town is $14.00, and the dearest we found is $22.50 at Dicola's Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $11.55 apart, which is 105% more for the same dish. Of the 6 kitchens listed, 3 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 stromboli in 456 other areas and compare them all on stromboli across United States. The typical price there runs $13.95 at the median, so Washington is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 172 of the 456. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.50 at Da Vinci Pizzeria in New York, NY, and the highest best price is $18.29 in Cape May, NJ. The nearest area with it is Clinton, about 8 mi away, where the best price is $12.10.

Where is the cheapest stromboli in Washington? Little Italy Brick Oven, at $10.95 on 459 Route 31. The same dish reaches $22.50 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $11.55.

What should stromboli cost here? About $14.00 is the typical price across the 6 kitchens in Washington that list it. Of the ones listed above, 3 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 Clinton, about 8 mi away, where the best price is $12.10. That is $1.15 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.