Shrimp Scampi in New York

103 restaurants in New York list shrimp scampi on their menus, and the 40 cheapest are listed above. The cheapest is Venezia Pizza at $12.00. The typical price across town is $23.45, and the dearest of the 40 listed is $21.50 at Rosa Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $9.50 apart, which is 79% more for the same dish. Of the 40 kitchens listed, 40 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 0 sit within a dollar of it and 0 charge more than a dollar over.

We track shrimp scampi in 272 other areas and compare them all on shrimp scampi across United States. The typical price there runs $23.00 at the median, so New York is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 128 of the 272. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $8.99 at Via Italian Table in Worcester, MA, and the highest best price is $32.00 in Red Bank, NJ. The nearest area with it is Maspeth, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $14.75.

Where is the cheapest shrimp scampi in New York? Venezia Pizza, at $12.00 on 1115 Astor Ave. The same dish reaches $21.50 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $9.50.

What should shrimp scampi cost here? About $23.45 is the typical price across the 103 kitchens in New York that list it. Of the ones listed above, 40 are more than a dollar below that and 0 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 $2.75 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.