Manicotti in San Diego

11 restaurants in San Diego list manicotti on their menus. The cheapest is Filippi's Pizza Grotto Kearny Mesa at $13.95, listed as Manicotti Lunch. The typical price across town is $17.99, and the dearest we found is $23.00 at Venice Pizza House, so the two ends of the list are $9.05 apart, which is 65% more for the same dish. Of the 11 kitchens listed, 5 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 4 charge more than a dollar over.

We track manicotti in 155 other areas and compare them all on manicotti across United States. The typical price there runs $16.00 at the median, so San Diego is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 34 of the 155. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $6.00 at Vitale's Sports Bar Ada in Grand Rapids, MI, and the highest best price is $19.00 in Woodbury, CT. The nearest area with it is El Cajon, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $10.95.

Where is the cheapest manicotti in San Diego? Filippi's Pizza Grotto Kearny Mesa, at $13.95 on 5353 Kearny Villa Rd. The same dish reaches $23.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $9.05.

What should manicotti cost here? About $17.99 is the typical price across the 11 kitchens in San Diego that list it. Of the ones listed above, 5 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 El Cajon, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $10.95. That is $3.00 less than the best here, though whether that is worth the journey is your call.

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.