Stuffed Shells in Pittsburgh

14 restaurants in Pittsburgh list stuffed shells on their menus. The cheapest is Sciulli's Pizza at $12.00, listed as Stuffed Shells Dinner. The typical price across town is $15.59, and the dearest we found is $20.99 at Pizza Bellino, so the two ends of the list are $8.99 apart, which is 75% more for the same dish. Of the 14 kitchens listed, 4 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 6 sit within a dollar of it and 4 charge more than a dollar over.

We track stuffed shells in 250 other areas and compare them all on stuffed shells across United States. The typical price there runs $16.45 at the median, so Pittsburgh is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 168 of the 250. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $5.50 at Mr P Pizza & Pasta in North Wales, PA, and the highest best price is $20.10 in West Springfield, MA. The nearest area with it is Chambersburg, about 129 mi away, where the best price is $12.49.

Where is the cheapest stuffed shells in Pittsburgh? Sciulli's Pizza, at $12.00 on 3404 Fifth Avenue. The same dish reaches $20.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $8.99.

What should stuffed shells cost here? About $15.59 is the typical price across the 14 kitchens in Pittsburgh that list it. Of the ones listed above, 4 are more than a dollar below that and 4 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 Chambersburg, about 129 mi away, where the best price is $12.49. That is $0.49 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.