Shrimp Marinara in Washington

4 restaurants in Washington list shrimp marinara on their menus. The cheapest is Brother's Restaurant Bar & Pizza at $16.95, listed as Shrimp Marinara Lunch. The typical price across town is $19.95, and the dearest we found is $24.25 at Mo Dough Pizza & Italian Cucina, so the two ends of the list are $7.30 apart, which is 43% 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 marinara in 58 other areas and compare them all on shrimp marinara across United States. The typical price there runs $23.00 at the median, so Washington is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 52 of the 58. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $11.99 at Little Italy Annapolis in Annapolis, MD, and the highest best price is $26.95 in Farmingdale, NY. The nearest area with it is Hackettstown, about 10 mi away, where the best price is $19.70.

Where is the cheapest shrimp marinara in Washington? Brother's Restaurant Bar & Pizza, at $16.95 on 301 W Washington Ave. The same dish reaches $24.25 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $7.30.

What should shrimp marinara cost here? About $19.95 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.