Beef Tataki in Calgary

4 restaurants in Calgary list beef tataki on their menus. The cheapest is Globefish Sushi & Izakaya at $12.00. The typical price across town is $16.00, and the dearest we found is $25.00 at Shokunin, so the two ends of the list are $13.00 apart, which is 108% 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 beef tataki in 1 other area and compare them all on beef tataki across Canada. The typical price there runs $15.00 at the median, so Calgary is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 0 of the 1. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $12.50 at Moonga Sashimi in Edmonton, AB. The nearest area with it is Edmonton, about 278 km away, where the best price is $12.50.

Where is the cheapest beef tataki in Calgary? Globefish Sushi & Izakaya, at $12.00 on 2009 33 Avenue SW. The same dish reaches $25.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $13.00.

What should beef tataki cost here? About $16.00 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 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 Edmonton, about 278 km away, where the best price is $12.50. That is $0.50 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.