Fried Shrimp in New York

63 restaurants in New York list fried shrimp on their menus, and the 40 cheapest are listed above. The cheapest is Krazy Pizza & Wings at $6.90. The typical price across town is $15.99, and the dearest of the 40 listed is $17.72 at Fresh Pasta & Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $10.82 apart, which is 157% more for the same dish. Of the 40 kitchens listed, 26 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 9 sit within a dollar of it and 5 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 York is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 27 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 Maspeth, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $14.75.

Where is the cheapest fried shrimp in New York? Krazy Pizza & Wings, at $6.90 on 1784 Broadway. The same dish reaches $17.72 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $10.82.

What should fried shrimp cost here? About $15.99 is the typical price across the 63 kitchens in New York that list it. Of the ones listed above, 26 are more than a dollar below that and 5 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 Maspeth, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $14.75. That is $7.85 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.