3 restaurants in Mechanicsville list stuffed shells on their menus. The cheapest is Mimmo's Italian Restaurant & Pizza at $13.75. The typical price across town is $14.99, and the dearest we found is $18.50 at Anna's Italian Restaurant, so the two ends of the list are $4.75 apart, which is 35% 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 Mechanicsville is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 187 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 Newport News, about 61 mi away, where the best price is $9.99.
Where is the cheapest stuffed shells in Mechanicsville? Mimmo's Italian Restaurant & Pizza, at $13.75 on 8319 Bell Creek Rd. The same dish reaches $18.50 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $4.75.
What should stuffed shells cost here? About $14.99 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Mechanicsville 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 Newport News, about 61 mi away, where the best price is $9.99. That is $3.76 less than the best here, though whether that is worth the journey is your call.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mechanicsville, VA this page |
$13.75 | $14.99 | 3 |
| Newport News, VA
Soprano Italian Restaurant · about 61 mi away |
$9.99 | $13.99 | 3 |
| Norfolk, VA
Ynot Italian · about 79 mi away |
$7.35 | $14.95 | 7 |
| Hampton, VA
Sal's NY Pizza · about 82 mi away |
$11.95 | $13.99 | 4 |
| Chesapeake, VA
Y Not Italian · about 85 mi away |
$7.35 | $14.99 | 7 |
| Virginia Beach, VA
Litalien Pizza & Pasta · about 91 mi away |
$12.99 | $16.00 | 8 |
| Leesburg, VA
Giovanni's NY Pizza · about 103 mi away |
$9.57 | $15.59 | 5 |
| Severna Park, MD
Little Carmine's N.Y. Pizza Kitchen · about 110 mi away |
$8.99 | $9.99 | 3 |
| Glen Burnie, MD
Mr. Pizza & Subs · about 113 mi away |
$12.99 | $14.99 | 5 |
| Pasadena, MD
Mr. Pizza & Subs · about 114 mi away |
$11.00 | $17.00 | 4 |
| Parkville, MD
Wings Things N More · about 130 mi away |
$10.99 | $12.99 | 5 |
| Wake Forest, NC
Bella Italia Pizzeria · about 131 mi away |
$10.99 | $13.50 | 4 |
| Aberdeen, MD
Santini's Italian Cuisine · about 146 mi away |
$16.99 | $18.95 | 3 |
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 Mechanicsville.