6 restaurants in Elizabeth list stuffed shells on their menus. The cheapest is Tommy's Pizzeria & Restaurant at $10.00. The typical price across town is $13.95, and the dearest we found is $18.95 at Mario's Famous Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $8.95 apart, which is 90% more for the same dish. Of the 6 kitchens listed, 3 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit 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 Elizabeth is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 224 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 Linden, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $10.00.
Where is the cheapest stuffed shells in Elizabeth? Tommy's Pizzeria & Restaurant, at $10.00 on 1063 Fairmount Ave. The same dish reaches $18.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $8.95.
What should stuffed shells cost here? About $13.95 is the typical price across the 6 kitchens in Elizabeth that list it. Of the ones listed above, 3 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 Linden, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $10.00. That is the same as 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elizabeth, NJ this page |
$10.00 | $13.95 | 6 |
| Linden, NJ
Pasquale's Pizzeria IV · about 3 mi away |
$10.00 | $13.95 | 6 |
| Bayonne, NJ
Mona Lisa Pizzeria Ristorante · about 5 mi away |
$13.00 | $15.75 | 5 |
| Newark, NJ
Giovanni Pizza & Grill · about 5 mi away |
$9.95 | $12.95 | 7 |
| Rahway, NJ
Tony's Pizza Cafe · about 5 mi away |
$10.79 | $13.95 | 4 |
| Avenel, NJ
Taste of Italy · about 7 mi away |
$12.45 | $13.50 | 3 |
| Belleville, NJ
Gino's Pizza & Ristorante · about 9 mi away |
$11.95 | $15.95 | 5 |
| Fords, NJ
Angelo's Pizza · about 11 mi away |
$11.95 | $16.95 | 4 |
| Lyndhurst, NJ
Josie's · about 11 mi away |
$12.00 | $17.00 | 6 |
| Plainfield, NJ
Ferraro's Pizza · about 11 mi away |
$12.00 | $14.95 | 3 |
| Union City, NJ
Pitstop Pizza · about 12 mi away |
$11.00 | $12.75 | 5 |
| North Plainfield, NJ
San Remo Pizza & Restaurant · about 12 mi away |
$10.95 | $15.95 | 4 |
| New York, NY
Carranza Pizza · about 12 mi away |
$8.00 | $13.99 | 84 |
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 Elizabeth.