3 restaurants in West Long Branch list manicotti on their menus. The cheapest is La Scarpetta Italian Restaurant at $13.50, listed as Manicotti Lunch. The typical price across town is $15.50, and the dearest we found is $16.65 at Nelly's Grill & Pizzeria, so the two ends of the list are $3.15 apart, which is 23% 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 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 West Long Branch is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 93 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 Freehold, about 14 mi away, where the best price is $10.75.
Where is the cheapest manicotti in West Long Branch? La Scarpetta Italian Restaurant, at $13.50 on 167 Locust Ave. The same dish reaches $16.65 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $3.15.
What should manicotti cost here? About $15.50 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in West Long Branch 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 Freehold, about 14 mi away, where the best price is $10.75. That is $2.75 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.
| Area | Best price | Typical | Places |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Long Branch, NJ this page |
$13.50 | $15.50 | 3 |
| Freehold, NJ
Mateo's Pizzeria · about 14 mi away |
$10.75 | $15.00 | 4 |
| Keyport, NJ
Front Street Pizza · about 14 mi away |
$12.95 | $14.00 | 4 |
| Brick Township, NJ
Willy's Pizza · about 16 mi away |
$9.99 | $15.95 | 5 |
| Jackson, NJ
C & R's Pizza Ristorante · about 18 mi away |
$12.00 | $15.00 | 4 |
| Fords, NJ
Brooklyn Pizza · about 23 mi away |
$13.50 | $16.95 | 3 |
| Far Rockaway, NY
Buona Pizza · about 24 mi away |
$10.00 | $13.75 | 5 |
| Milltown, NJ
Dusal's · about 24 mi away |
$14.99 | $16.10 | 3 |
| Edison, NJ
Menlo Pizzeria · about 25 mi away |
$14.19 | $18.00 | 6 |
| Bayonne, NJ
Mona Lisa Pizzeria Ristorante · about 26 mi away |
$13.00 | $15.75 | 4 |
| Linden, NJ
Pasquale's Pizzeria IV · about 26 mi away |
$10.00 | $13.95 | 3 |
| New Brunswick, NJ
Krispy Pizza · about 26 mi away |
$14.75 | $18.69 | 3 |
| Elizabeth, NJ
Elizabeth Pizzeria · about 28 mi away |
$10.00 | $14.00 | 4 |
Items are grouped by dish, so names vary a little between restaurants. Each price is what that menu listed on the date shown beside it, not a daily special, so a restaurant may have changed it since. The typical price is the middle of every price we hold for this dish in West Long Branch.