Calamari in West Babylon

7 restaurants in West Babylon list calamari on their menus. The cheapest is Izumi Sushi and Hibachi Steak house at $9.95, listed as Fried Calamari. The typical price across town is $16.64, and the dearest we found is $21.95 at Cafe Gio, so the two ends of the list are $12.00 apart, which is 121% more for the same dish. Of the 7 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 5 sit within a dollar of it and 1 charges more than a dollar over.

We track calamari in 495 other areas and compare them all on calamari across United States. The typical price there runs $15.37 at the median, so West Babylon is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 155 of the 495. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.50 at French Quarter Grille in Austin, TX, and the highest best price is $19.75 in Harwood Heights, IL. The nearest area with it is Babylon, about 1 mi away, where the best price is $17.00.

Where is the cheapest calamari in West Babylon? Izumi Sushi and Hibachi Steak house, at $9.95 on 527 Montauk Hwy. The same dish reaches $21.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $12.00.

What should calamari cost here? About $16.64 is the typical price across the 7 kitchens in West Babylon 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 Babylon, about 1 mi away, where the best price is $17.00. That is $7.05 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.