8 restaurants in Worcester list pasta and meatballs on their menus. The cheapest is Restaurant Pizza Works at $10.99, listed as Pasta with Meatballs. The typical price across town is $12.95, and the dearest we found is $18.99 at The Woo Bar & Grill, so the two ends of the list are $8.00 apart, which is 73% more for the same dish. Of the 8 kitchens listed, 2 charge 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 pasta and meatballs in 115 other areas and compare them all on pasta and meatballs across United States. The typical price there runs $16.50 at the median, so Worcester is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 113 of the 115. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $8.00 at Prince of Pizza in Jersey City, NJ, and the highest best price is $22.00 in Boca Raton, FL. The nearest area with it is Natick, about 23 mi away, where the best price is $14.99.
Where is the cheapest pasta and meatballs in Worcester? Restaurant Pizza Works, at $10.99 on 456 Grove St. The same dish reaches $18.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $8.00.
What should pasta and meatballs cost here? About $12.95 is the typical price across the 8 kitchens in Worcester 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 Natick, about 23 mi away, where the best price is $14.99. That is $4.00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Worcester, MA this page |
$10.99 | $12.95 | 8 |
| Natick, MA
Liberty's Pizza of Natick · about 23 mi away |
$14.99 | $16.40 | 3 |
| Woonsocket, RI
MVP Pizzeria · about 24 mi away |
$10.99 | $12.99 | 5 |
| Arlington, MA
Olympic Pizza · about 35 mi away |
$15.99 | $17.00 | 4 |
| Jamaica Plain, MA
Zesto's Pizza & Grille · about 36 mi away |
$14.95 | $18.25 | 4 |
| Providence, RI
Milano's Pizza · about 36 mi away |
$12.99 | $15.95 | 4 |
| Cambridge, MA
Kendall House of Pizza · about 36 mi away |
$12.95 | $14.99 | 5 |
| Dracut, MA
G & G Quick Bite · about 38 mi away |
$12.99 | $14.95 | 3 |
| Stoughton, MA
Old Country Pizzeria · about 38 mi away |
$12.25 | $15.20 | 3 |
| Chicopee, MA
John's Pizzeria & Restaurant · about 41 mi away |
$17.25 | $18.99 | 4 |
| Holyoke, MA
Capri Pizza · about 42 mi away |
$16.95 | $18.57 | 4 |
| Warwick, RI
Post Road Pizza · about 42 mi away |
$11.99 | $13.99 | 4 |
| Revere, MA
Revere House of Pizza · about 43 mi away |
$15.50 | $16.50 | 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 Worcester.