Calamari in Smithtown

7 restaurants in Smithtown list calamari on their menus. The cheapest is Dirty Taco + Tequila Smithtown at $7.50, listed as Crispy Calamari. The typical price across town is $18.00, and the dearest we found is $29.00 at Farina Di Vera Pizzeria, so the two ends of the list are $21.50 apart, which is 287% more for the same dish. Of the 7 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 3 charge more than a dollar over.

We track calamari in 493 other areas and compare them all on calamari across United States. The typical price there runs $15.42 at the median, so Smithtown is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 54 of the 493. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.50 at French Quarter Grille in Austin, TX, and the highest best price is $19.75 in Harwood Heights, IL. The nearest area with it is Hauppauge, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $15.00.

Where is the cheapest calamari in Smithtown? Dirty Taco + Tequila Smithtown, at $7.50 on 716 Smithtown Bypass. The same dish reaches $29.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $21.50.

What should calamari cost here? About $18.00 is the typical price across the 7 kitchens in Smithtown that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 are more than a dollar below that and 3 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 Hauppauge, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $15.00. That is $7.50 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.