Chicken Tikka Masala in Edmonton

3 restaurants in Edmonton list chicken tikka masala on their menus. The cheapest is Tasty Indian Restaurant at $14.99. The typical price across town is $16.74, and the dearest we found is $18.95 at India Garden Restaurant, so the two ends of the list are $3.96 apart, which is 26% more for the same dish. Of the 3 kitchens listed, 1 charges 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 masala in 4 other areas and compare them all on chicken tikka masala across Canada. The typical price there runs $17.49 at the median, so Edmonton is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 4 of the 4. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $11.99 at Dhaba Express in Brampton, ON, and the highest best price is $15.99 in Red Deer, AB. The nearest area with it is Red Deer, about 137 km away, where the best price is $15.99.

Where is the cheapest chicken tikka masala in Edmonton? Tasty Indian Restaurant, at $14.99 on 12916 127 Street NW. The same dish reaches $18.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $3.96.

What should chicken tikka masala cost here? About $16.74 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Edmonton that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is 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 Red Deer, about 137 km away, where the best price is $15.99. 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.