Nachos in Halifax

5 restaurants in Halifax list nachos on their menus. The cheapest is Bedford Beer Garden at $16.00. The typical price across town is $20.00, and the dearest we found is $27.00 at Moxies Nova Centre, so the two ends of the list are $11.00 apart, which is 69% 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 nachos in 19 other areas and compare them all on nachos across Canada. The typical price there runs $18.95 at the median, so Halifax is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 7 of the 19. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $8.00 at Affy's Premium Grill in Mississauga, ON, and the highest best price is $18.49 in Moncton, NB. The nearest area with it is Charlottetown, about 155 km away, where the best price is $18.49.

Where is the cheapest nachos in Halifax? Bedford Beer Garden, at $16.00 on 367 Bedford Highway. The same dish reaches $27.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $11.00.

What should nachos cost here? About $20.00 is the typical price across the 5 kitchens in Halifax 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 Charlottetown, about 155 km away, where the best price is $18.49. That is $2.49 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.