Chicken Tikka in Calgary

4 restaurants in Calgary list chicken tikka on their menus. The cheapest is Grace of India at $14.95. The typical price across town is $19.99, and the dearest we found is $25.00 at Hyderabad House Calgary NW, so the two ends of the list are $10.05 apart, which is 67% 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 chicken tikka in 5 other areas and compare them all on chicken tikka across Canada. The typical price there runs $16.99 at the median, so Calgary is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 0 of the 5. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $13.99 at Tabaq in Mississauga, ON, and the highest best price is $15.99 in Saskatoon, SK. The nearest area with it is Saskatoon, about 511 km away, where the best price is $15.99.

Where is the cheapest chicken tikka in Calgary? Grace of India, at $14.95 on 4629 12 St NE. The same dish reaches $25.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $10.05.

What should chicken tikka cost here? About $19.99 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Calgary 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 Saskatoon, about 511 km away, where the best price is $15.99. That is $1.04 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.