Poutine in Grande Prairie

5 restaurants in Grande Prairie list poutine on their menus. The cheapest is Swan City Roadhouse at $6.00. The typical price across town is $10.50, and the dearest we found is $13.95 at Eastside Kitchen, so the two ends of the list are $7.95 apart, which is 132% more for the same dish. Of the 5 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 2 charge more than a dollar over.

We track poutine in 40 other areas and compare them all on poutine across Canada. The typical price there runs $11.00 at the median, so Grande Prairie is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 22 of the 40. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Cramdon's Tap & Eatery in Windsor, ON, and the highest best price is $12.00 in Banff, AB. The nearest area with it is Prince George, about 292 km away, where the best price is $8.00.

Where is the cheapest poutine in Grande Prairie? Swan City Roadhouse, at $6.00 on 11401 100 Ave.. The same dish reaches $13.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $7.95.

What should poutine cost here? About $10.50 is the typical price across the 5 kitchens in Grande Prairie that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is 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 Prince George, about 292 km away, where the best price is $8.00. That is $2.00 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.