Fried Shrimp in New Haven

8 restaurants in New Haven list fried shrimp on their menus. The cheapest is Gennaro's Pizza at $8.85. The typical price across town is $12.50, and the dearest we found is $17.95 at Est Est Est Pizza & Restaurant, so the two ends of the list are $9.10 apart, which is 103% more for the same dish. Of the 8 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 3 sit within a dollar of it and 3 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 New Haven is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 42 of the 45. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $5.99 at Picatta Pizza & Pasta in Houston, TX, and the highest best price is $21.75 in Montclair, NJ. The nearest area with it is West Haven, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $9.85.

Where is the cheapest fried shrimp in New Haven? Gennaro's Pizza, at $8.85 on 888 Howard Ave. The same dish reaches $17.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $9.10.

What should fried shrimp cost here? About $12.50 is the typical price across the 8 kitchens in New Haven that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 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 $9.85. That is $1.00 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.