Steak Frites in Calgary

5 restaurants in Calgary list steak frites on their menus. The cheapest is Our House Neighborhood Joint at $22.00. The typical price across town is $38.00, and the dearest we found is $49.95 at Francine's, so the two ends of the list are $27.95 apart, which is 127% more for the same dish. Of the 5 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 1 sits within a dollar of it and 2 charge more than a dollar over.

We track steak frites in 6 other areas and compare them all on steak frites across Canada. The typical price there runs $39.00 at the median, so Calgary is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 4 of the 6. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $22.99 at Wellington Diner in Ottawa, ON, and the highest best price is $38.00 in Kingston, ON. The nearest area with it is Vancouver, about 689 km away, where the best price is $29.00.

Where is the cheapest steak frites in Calgary? Our House Neighborhood Joint, at $22.00 on 2411 4 Street NW. The same dish reaches $49.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $27.95.

What should steak frites cost here? About $38.00 is the typical price across the 5 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 Vancouver, about 689 km away, where the best price is $29.00. That is $7.00 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.