Fried Shrimp in Houston

4 restaurants in Houston list fried shrimp on their menus. The cheapest is Picatta Pizza & Pasta at $5.99. The typical price across town is $9.99, and the dearest we found is $10.00 at Sicily Pizza & Pasta - Westheimer, so the two ends of the list are $4.01 apart, which is 67% more for the same dish. Of the 4 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 0 charge more than a dollar over.

We track fried shrimp in 45 other areas and compare them all on fried shrimp across United States. The typical price there runs $16.95 at the median, so Houston is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 44 of the 45. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $6.90 at Krazy Pizza & Wings in New York, NY, and the highest best price is $21.75 in Montclair, NJ. The nearest area with it is New Orleans, about 326 mi away, where the best price is $8.50.

Where is the cheapest fried shrimp in Houston? Picatta Pizza & Pasta, at $5.99 on 6405 Antoine Drive. The same dish reaches $10.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $4.01.

What should fried shrimp cost here? About $9.99 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Houston that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 are more than a dollar below that and 0 are 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 New Orleans, about 326 mi away, where the best price is $8.50. That is $2.51 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.