Shrimp Fra Diavolo in Forest Hills

3 restaurants in Forest Hills list shrimp fra diavolo on their menus. The cheapest is D'Angelo's Pizza & Pasta at $19.80, listed as Shrimp Fra Diavolo Lunch. The typical price across town is $24.00, and the dearest we found is $26.95 at Paul Michael's Brick Oven Cafe Restaurant, so the two ends of the list are $7.15 apart, which is 36% 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 shrimp fra diavolo in 68 other areas and compare them all on shrimp fra diavolo across United States. The typical price there runs $23.50 at the median, so Forest Hills is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 25 of the 68. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $12.00 at Basil Cucina & Catering in New York, NY, and the highest best price is $32.00 in Red Bank, NJ. The nearest area with it is Ridgewood, about 4 mi away, where the best price is $22.95.

Where is the cheapest shrimp fra diavolo in Forest Hills? D'Angelo's Pizza & Pasta, at $19.80 on 118-07 Queens Blvd. The same dish reaches $26.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $7.15.

What should shrimp fra diavolo cost here? About $24.00 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Forest Hills 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 Ridgewood, about 4 mi away, where the best price is $22.95. That is $3.15 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.