Salad in Banff

13 restaurants in Banff list salad on their menus. The cheapest is Zyka Elevated Indian Restaurant at $8.00, listed as Green Salad. The typical price across town is $17.00, and the dearest we found is $24.00 at The Bear Street Tavern, so the two ends of the list are $16.00 apart, which is 200% more for the same dish. Of the 13 kitchens listed, 6 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 5 charge more than a dollar over.

We track salad in 49 other areas and compare them all on salad across Canada. The typical price there runs $11.95 at the median, so Banff is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 2 of the 49. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Billie Jax Grill & Bar in Whitby, ON, and the highest best price is $8.99 in Chilliwack, BC. The nearest area with it is Calgary, about 125 km away, where the best price is $4.95.

Where is the cheapest salad in Banff? Zyka Elevated Indian Restaurant, at $8.00 on 211 Banff Avenue. The same dish reaches $24.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $16.00.

What should salad cost here? About $17.00 is the typical price across the 13 kitchens in Banff that list it. Of the ones listed above, 6 are more than a dollar below that and 5 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 Calgary, about 125 km away, where the best price is $4.95. That is $3.05 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.