11 restaurants in New Haven list stuffed shells on their menus. The cheapest is Aladdin Crown Pizza at $10.95. The typical price across town is $15.99, and the dearest we found is $17.99 at Family Mediterranean Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $7.04 apart, which is 64% more for the same dish. Of the 11 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 6 sit within a dollar of it and 3 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 New Haven is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 139 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 West Haven, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $14.49.
Where is the cheapest stuffed shells in New Haven? Aladdin Crown Pizza, at $10.95 on 260 Crown Street. The same dish reaches $17.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $7.04.
What should stuffed shells cost here? About $15.99 is the typical price across the 11 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 $14.49. That is $3.54 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Haven, CT this page |
$10.95 | $15.99 | 11 |
| West Haven, CT
Cappetta's Italian Imports · about 3 mi away |
$14.49 | $17.00 | 6 |
| Hamden, CT
Star Pizza Restaurant · about 4 mi away |
$14.75 | $17.95 | 5 |
| Branford, CT
Honeyspot Pizza 3 · about 6 mi away |
$15.95 | $16.95 | 3 |
| North Haven, CT
Mama Rosa's Pizza · about 7 mi away |
$11.95 | $16.95 | 4 |
| Ansonia, CT
Alberto's · about 8 mi away |
$12.95 | $15.95 | 3 |
| Milford, CT
Pancho's Pizza · about 9 mi away |
$12.99 | $17.95 | 4 |
| Stratford, CT
Di Roma's Pizza · about 13 mi away |
$11.00 | $16.50 | 6 |
| Naugatuck, CT
La Casa Pizzeria · about 14 mi away |
$15.95 | $17.45 | 5 |
| Bridgeport, CT
La Margarita Pizzeria · about 16 mi away |
$10.00 | $19.75 | 4 |
| Meriden, CT
Honeyspot Pizza 4 · about 17 mi away |
$11.99 | $15.99 | 10 |
| Waterbury, CT
Angelina's Pizza · about 18 mi away |
$7.95 | $14.95 | 7 |
| Fairfield, CT
D'Angelo's Pizza · about 19 mi away |
$15.75 | $17.25 | 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 New Haven.