Pasta in Waterbury

4 restaurants in Waterbury list pasta on their menus. The cheapest is Angelina's Pizza at $6.75. The typical price across town is $15.50, and the dearest we found is $17.00 at Lakewood Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $10.25 apart, which is 152% more for the same dish. Of the 4 kitchens listed, 2 charge 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 pasta in 1 other area and compare them all on pasta across United States. The typical price there runs $17.25 at the median, so Waterbury is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 1 of the 1. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $8.00 at Vinny's Restaurant & Pizzeria in Naugatuck, CT. The nearest area with it is Naugatuck, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $8.00.

Where is the cheapest pasta in Waterbury? Angelina's Pizza, at $6.75 on 159 Manor Ave. The same dish reaches $17.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $10.25.

What should pasta cost here? About $15.50 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Waterbury that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 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 Naugatuck, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $8.00. That is $1.25 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.