3 restaurants in Matawan list stuffed shells on their menus. The cheapest is Carlo's Gourmet Pizza & Pasta Matawan at $8.75, listed as Stuffed Shells Lunch. The typical price across town is $15.00, and the dearest we found is $15.95 at Stevies Pizza & Pasta, so the two ends of the list are $7.20 apart, which is 82% more for the same dish. Of the 3 kitchens listed, 1 charges 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 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 Matawan is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 181 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 Keyport, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $11.99.
Where is the cheapest stuffed shells in Matawan? Carlo's Gourmet Pizza & Pasta Matawan, at $8.75 on 351 NJ-34. The same dish reaches $15.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $7.20.
What should stuffed shells cost here? About $15.00 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Matawan that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is 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 Keyport, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $11.99. That is $3.24 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Matawan, NJ this page |
$8.75 | $15.00 | 3 |
| Keyport, NJ
Felicita Pizzeria & Mexican Restaurant · about 3 mi away |
$11.99 | $13.95 | 3 |
| Sayreville, NJ
La Rosetta Cafe · about 5 mi away |
$12.50 | $14.95 | 4 |
| Fords, NJ
Angelo's Pizza · about 9 mi away |
$11.95 | $16.95 | 4 |
| Manalapan, NJ
Sal's Gourmet Pizza · about 9 mi away |
$13.99 | $15.95 | 3 |
| Edison, NJ
Menlo Pizzeria · about 10 mi away |
$14.25 | $15.95 | 7 |
| Freehold, NJ
Mateo's Pizzeria · about 11 mi away |
$12.00 | $14.99 | 5 |
| Avenel, NJ
Taste of Italy · about 11 mi away |
$12.45 | $13.50 | 3 |
| North Brunswick, NJ
Leone's Trattoria · about 12 mi away |
$12.95 | $18.99 | 4 |
| Rahway, NJ
Tony's Pizza Cafe · about 13 mi away |
$10.79 | $13.95 | 4 |
| Piscataway, NJ
Otto's Pizza & Pasta · about 14 mi away |
$15.50 | $16.80 | 4 |
| South Plainfield, NJ
Tony's Pizza & Restaurant · about 14 mi away |
$14.95 | $16.95 | 3 |
| Linden, NJ
Pasquale's Pizzeria IV · about 14 mi away |
$10.00 | $13.95 | 6 |
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 Matawan.