Falafel in Halifax

3 restaurants in Halifax list falafel on their menus. The cheapest is Ardmore Tea Room at $5.00. The typical price across town is $13.99, and the dearest we found is $16.00 at Lion's Head Tavern, so the two ends of the list are $11.00 apart, which is 220% 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 falafel in 4 other areas and compare them all on falafel across Canada. The typical price there runs $16.00 at the median, so Halifax is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 2 of the 4. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $5.00 at Azkadenya Mediterranean - Mississauga in Mississauga, ON, and the highest best price is $13.00 in Calgary, AB. The nearest area with it is Mississauga, about 1313 km away, where the best price is $5.00.

Where is the cheapest falafel in Halifax? Ardmore Tea Room, at $5.00 on 6499 Quinpool Road. The same dish reaches $16.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $11.00.

What should falafel cost here? About $13.99 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Halifax 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 Mississauga, about 1313 km away, where the best price is $5.00. That is the same as 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.