Beef Tartare in Calgary

4 restaurants in Calgary list beef tartare on their menus. The cheapest is Bar Chouette at $20.00. The typical price across town is $25.00, and the dearest we found is $26.00 at Korilla, so the two ends of the list are $6.00 apart, which is 30% more for the same dish. Of the 4 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 0 charge more than a dollar over.

We track beef tartare in 2 other areas and compare them all on beef tartare across Canada. The typical price there runs $26.88 at the median, so Calgary is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 1 of the 2. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $19.00 at Amsterdam Tea Room in Winnipeg, MB, and the highest best price is $21.00 in Vancouver, BC. The nearest area with it is Vancouver, about 689 km away, where the best price is $21.00.

Where is the cheapest beef tartare in Calgary? Bar Chouette, at $20.00 on 227 11 Avenue SW. The same dish reaches $26.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $6.00.

What should beef tartare cost here? About $25.00 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 0 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 Vancouver, about 689 km away, where the best price is $21.00. That is $1.00 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.