3 restaurants in Dorchester list stuffed shells on their menus. The cheapest is Puritan Pizza at $8.99. The typical price across town is $16.50, and the dearest we found is $18.00 at Charlie's House of Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $9.01 apart, which is 100% more for the same dish. Of the 3 kitchens listed, 1 charges 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 stuffed shells in 250 other areas and compare them all on stuffed shells across United States. The typical price there runs $16.45 at the median, so Dorchester is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 114 of the 250. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $5.50 at Mr P Pizza & Pasta in North Wales, PA, and the highest best price is $20.10 in West Springfield, MA. The nearest area with it is South Boston, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $14.00.
Where is the cheapest stuffed shells in Dorchester? Puritan Pizza, at $8.99 on 735 William T Morrissey Blvd. The same dish reaches $18.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $9.01.
What should stuffed shells cost here? About $16.50 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Dorchester 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 South Boston, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $14.00. That is $5.01 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dorchester, MA this page |
$8.99 | $16.50 | 3 |
| South Boston, MA
Red Line Pizza · about 3 mi away |
$14.00 | $17.00 | 3 |
| Quincy, MA
David's Pizza · about 4 mi away |
$12.99 | $14.99 | 3 |
| Somerville, MA
Union Square Pizza & Sub · about 6 mi away |
$14.95 | $15.95 | 3 |
| Randolph, MA
Avon Best Pizza & Grill · about 10 mi away |
$11.99 | $14.55 | 3 |
| Stoneham, MA
Royal Roast Beef & Seafood · about 12 mi away |
$14.99 | $29.00 | 4 |
| East Providence, RI
Zoe's Pizza & Seafood · about 39 mi away |
$9.99 | $11.99 | 3 |
| Chicopee, MA
Pizza Palace · about 79 mi away |
$16.50 | $18.99 | 7 |
| Vernon, CT
A1 Brick Oven Pizza · about 79 mi away |
$10.00 | $17.99 | 3 |
| Holyoke, MA
City Pizza · about 80 mi away |
$17.49 | $18.95 | 4 |
| West Springfield, MA
Star Pizza · about 81 mi away |
$20.10 | $22.00 | 3 |
| Windsor Locks, CT
Village Pizza · about 86 mi away |
$14.50 | $17.95 | 3 |
| West Hartford, CT
Bert's Pizzeria · about 94 mi away |
$15.95 | $19.75 | 4 |
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 Dorchester.