Pizza in Banff

4 restaurants in Banff list pizza on their menus. The cheapest is The Bear Street Tavern at $13.00, listed as PEPPERONI PIZZA. The typical price across town is $20.95, and the dearest we found is $23.00 at The Boss Kitchen & Bar, so the two ends of the list are $10.00 apart, which is 77% 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 pizza in 10 other areas and compare them all on pizza across Canada. The typical price there runs $24.00 at the median, so Banff is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 7 of the 10. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $10.45 at Jay Bee's Diner in Edmonton, AB, and the highest best price is $22.00 in Vancouver, BC. The nearest area with it is Calgary, about 125 km away, where the best price is $18.00.

Where is the cheapest pizza in Banff? The Bear Street Tavern, at $13.00 on 211 Bear Street. The same dish reaches $23.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $10.00.

What should pizza cost here? About $20.95 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Banff 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 Calgary, about 125 km away, where the best price is $18.00. That is $5.00 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.