Shrimp Fra Diavolo in Oceanside

5 restaurants in Oceanside list shrimp fra diavolo on their menus. The cheapest is Gigante's Pizzeria & Restaurant at $19.95. The typical price across town is $25.78, and the dearest we found is $26.90 at Farfalle Pizzeria, so the two ends of the list are $6.95 apart, which is 35% more for the same dish. Of the 5 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 1 charges 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 $23.50 at the median, so Oceanside is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 14 of the 68. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $12.00 at Basil Cucina & Catering in New York, NY, and the highest best price is $32.00 in Red Bank, NJ. The nearest area with it is Franklin Square, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $25.99.

Where is the cheapest shrimp fra diavolo in Oceanside? Gigante's Pizzeria & Restaurant, at $19.95 on 3576 Long Beach Rd. The same dish reaches $26.90 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $6.95.

What should shrimp fra diavolo cost here? About $25.78 is the typical price across the 5 kitchens in Oceanside that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 are more than a dollar below that and 1 is 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 Franklin Square, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $25.99. That is $6.04 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.