Shrimp Fra Diavolo in Washington

4 restaurants in Washington list shrimp fra diavolo on their menus. The cheapest is Brother's Restaurant Bar & Pizza at $16.95, listed as Shrimp Fra Diavolo Lunch. The typical price across town is $24.25, and the dearest we found is $25.95 at Mamma Maria Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $9.00 apart, which is 53% more for the same dish. Of the 4 kitchens listed, 2 charge 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 Washington is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 24 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 Hackettstown, about 10 mi away, where the best price is $19.70.

Where is the cheapest shrimp fra diavolo in Washington? Brother's Restaurant Bar & Pizza, at $16.95 on 301 W Washington Ave. The same dish reaches $25.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $9.00.

What should shrimp fra diavolo cost here? About $24.25 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Washington that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 are 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 Hackettstown, about 10 mi away, where the best price is $19.70. That is $2.75 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.