Chicken Biryani in Calgary

6 restaurants in Calgary list chicken biryani on their menus. The cheapest is Pure Casino Calgary at $9.88. The typical price across town is $13.95, and the dearest we found is $17.99 at Madurai Kitchen, so the two ends of the list are $8.11 apart, which is 82% more for the same dish. Of the 6 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 2 charge more than a dollar over.

We track chicken biryani in 4 other areas and compare them all on chicken biryani across Canada. The typical price there runs $19.00 at the median, so Calgary is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 2 of the 4. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $9.99 at Tabaq in Mississauga, ON, and the highest best price is $16.99 in St. John's, NL. The nearest area with it is Abbotsford, about 643 km away, where the best price is $14.99.

Where is the cheapest chicken biryani in Calgary? Pure Casino Calgary, at $9.88 on 1420 Meridian Rd NE. The same dish reaches $17.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $8.11.

What should chicken biryani cost here? About $13.95 is the typical price across the 6 kitchens in Calgary that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 are more than a dollar below that and 2 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 Abbotsford, about 643 km away, where the best price is $14.99. That is $5.11 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.