What an Italian restaurant menu carries and charges, from the 227 menus of this kind we hold in Melbourne. Its cuisine, for a wider comparison: Italian and pizza.
Menu length
65 dishes
the median; the middle 80% list 28 to 151
Sections
10
on the median menu
The typical dish
$22
the median of each menu’s median price, across 227 menus
How long the menus are
Middle half of 227 menus: 40 to 102Median 65Scale stretched at the low end
What most of them carry
Share of menus listing itMedian price
Margherita$23.9054%, 123 menus. Middle half $20 to $25, across 121 menus pricing it
Tiramisu$1649%, 112 menus. Middle half $14 to $18, across 109 menus pricing it
Capricciosa$2844%, 100 menus. Middle half $24.90 to $29, across 100 menus pricing it
Affogato$1234%, 78 menus. Middle half $9.10 to $16.50, across 75 menus pricing it
Arancini$1930%, 68 menus. Middle half $17 to $19.90, across 62 menus pricing it
Calamari fritti$24.9026%, 58 menus. Middle half $22 to $28, across 57 menus pricing it
Lasagna$29.2526%, 58 menus. Middle half $26 to $32, across 58 menus pricing it
Bruschetta$1624%, 55 menus. Middle half $13 to $18, across 55 menus pricing it
Chicken parmigiana$3223%, 52 menus. Middle half $28.90 to $34, across 51 menus pricing it
Prosciutto$2822%, 50 menus. Middle half $19.90 to $32, across 50 menus pricing it
Diavola$2820%, 46 menus. Middle half $26 to $29.90, across 46 menus pricing it
Espresso martini$2020%, 46 menus. Middle half $18 to $22, across 43 menus pricing it
A price is shown once at least 5 of these menus price the dish.
The sections they use
Pasta39%
Sides32%
Pizza28%
Mains27%
Secondi27%
Antipasti27%
Contorni23%
Dessert22%
Section names as menus print them, folded together when they differ only in case or punctuation.
Your own menu
Give us your menu and we will set it against places like yours, dish by dish, with how many menus each answer rests on. It is free.
We read menus from venues’ own websites, as they publish them, between 13 and 16 October 2026. Each menu counts once, prices as printed. A chain’s branches that serve the same menu count as one menu. We never name a venue: every figure here is a median, a range or a share, with the number of menus it rests on.