Calamari Fritti in Richmond

7 restaurants in Richmond list calamari fritti on their menus. The cheapest is Belmont Pizzeria at $11.00. The typical price across town is $12.50, and the dearest we found is $15.00 at Maldini's Ristorante, so the two ends of the list are $4.00 apart, which is 36% more for the same dish. Of the 7 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 5 sit within a dollar of it and 1 charges more than a dollar over.

We track calamari fritti in 6 other areas and compare them all on calamari fritti across United States. The typical price there runs $17.98 at the median, so Richmond is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 6 of the 6. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $12.00 at The River Oyster Bar in Miami, FL, and the highest best price is $17.95 in Red Bank, NJ. The nearest area with it is Alexandria, about 91 mi away, where the best price is $16.00.

Where is the cheapest calamari fritti in Richmond? Belmont Pizzeria, at $11.00 on 602 North Belmont Avenue. The same dish reaches $15.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $4.00.

What should calamari fritti cost here? About $12.50 is the typical price across the 7 kitchens in Richmond 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 Alexandria, about 91 mi away, where the best price is $16.00. That is $5.00 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.