Shrimp Fra Diavolo in New York

61 restaurants in New York list shrimp fra diavolo on their menus, and the 40 cheapest are listed above. The cheapest is Basil Cucina & Catering at $12.00. The typical price across town is $22.75, and the dearest of the 40 listed is $24.71 at Ti Amo Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $12.71 apart, which is 106% more for the same dish. Of the 40 kitchens listed, 25 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 12 sit within a dollar of it and 3 charge more than a dollar over.

We track shrimp fra diavolo in 68 other areas and compare them all on shrimp fra diavolo across United States. The typical price there runs $23.75 at the median, so New York is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 47 of the 68. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $13.95 at Ray's Pizza & Restaurant in New City, NY, and the highest best price is $32.00 in Red Bank, NJ. The nearest area with it is Ridgewood, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $22.95.

Where is the cheapest shrimp fra diavolo in New York? Basil Cucina & Catering, at $12.00 on 1686 Forest Ave. The same dish reaches $24.71 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $12.71.

What should shrimp fra diavolo cost here? About $22.75 is the typical price across the 61 kitchens in New York that list it. Of the ones listed above, 25 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 Ridgewood, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $22.95. That is $10.95 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.