Shrimp Fra Diavolo in Riverhead

3 restaurants in Riverhead list shrimp fra diavolo on their menus. The cheapest is Carlo's Pizza Oven at $13.95, listed as Shrimp Fra Diavolo Lunch. The typical price across town is $23.00, and the dearest we found is $33.83 at Rocco's Pizza & Pasta, so the two ends of the list are $19.88 apart, which is 143% 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 $23.75 at the median, so Riverhead is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 38 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 Medford, about 18 mi away, where the best price is $23.00.

Where is the cheapest shrimp fra diavolo in Riverhead? Carlo's Pizza Oven, at $13.95 on 435 Osborn Ave. The same dish reaches $33.83 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $19.88.

What should shrimp fra diavolo cost here? About $23.00 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Riverhead 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 Medford, about 18 mi away, where the best price is $23.00. That is $9.05 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.