Calamari in New Haven

11 restaurants in New Haven list calamari on their menus. The cheapest is Casa Bianca Pizza New Haven at $9.99, listed as Fried Calamari. The typical price across town is $14.95, and the dearest we found is $17.98 at Dayton Street Apizza, so the two ends of the list are $7.99 apart, which is 80% more for the same dish. Of the 11 kitchens listed, 4 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 4 sit within a dollar of it and 3 charge more than a dollar over.

We track calamari in 493 other areas and compare them all on calamari across United States. The typical price there runs $15.45 at the median, so New Haven is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 317 of the 493. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.50 at French Quarter Grille in Austin, TX, and the highest best price is $19.75 in Harwood Heights, IL. The nearest area with it is West Haven, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $12.99.

Where is the cheapest calamari in New Haven? Casa Bianca Pizza New Haven, at $9.99 on 185 Derby Ave. The same dish reaches $17.98 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $7.99.

What should calamari cost here? About $14.95 is the typical price across the 11 kitchens in New Haven that list it. Of the ones listed above, 4 are more than a dollar below that and 3 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 West Haven, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $12.99. That is $3.00 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.