Shrimp Fra Diavolo in Raleigh

3 restaurants in Raleigh list shrimp fra diavolo on their menus. The cheapest is Vic's Italian Restaurant & Pizzeria Downtown at $20.50. The typical price across town is $23.95, and the dearest we found is $27.00 at Assaggio's Italian Restaurant, so the two ends of the list are $6.50 apart, which is 32% 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 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 Raleigh is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 29 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 Egg Harbor Township, about 332 mi away, where the best price is $21.00.

Where is the cheapest shrimp fra diavolo in Raleigh? Vic's Italian Restaurant & Pizzeria Downtown, at $20.50 on 331 Blake St. The same dish reaches $27.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $6.50.

What should shrimp fra diavolo cost here? About $23.95 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Raleigh 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 Egg Harbor Township, about 332 mi away, where the best price is $21.00. That is $0.50 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.