Calamari Fra Diavolo in Piscataway

3 restaurants in Piscataway list calamari fra diavolo on their menus. The cheapest is Panatieri's Pizza & Pasta at $16.99. The typical price across town is $20.95, and the dearest we found is $28.40 at Piscataway Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $11.41 apart, which is 67% more for the same dish. Of the 3 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 1 sits within a dollar of it and 1 charges more than a dollar over.

We track calamari fra diavolo in 5 other areas and compare them all on calamari fra diavolo across United States. The typical price there runs $23.50 at the median, so Piscataway is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 4 of the 5. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $12.95 at Dante's Trattoria in Mahopac, NY, and the highest best price is $22.00 in Middletown, CT. The nearest area with it is Glen Cove, about 48 mi away, where the best price is $19.00.

Where is the cheapest calamari fra diavolo in Piscataway? Panatieri's Pizza & Pasta, at $16.99 on 1297 Centennial Ave. The same dish reaches $28.40 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $11.41.

What should calamari fra diavolo cost here? About $20.95 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Piscataway that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is 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 Glen Cove, about 48 mi away, where the best price is $19.00. That is $2.01 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.