Salad in Halifax

13 restaurants in Halifax list salad on their menus. The cheapest is Wasabi House at $4.75, listed as Green Salad. The typical price across town is $7.49, and the dearest we found is $16.50 at Moxies Nova Centre, so the two ends of the list are $11.75 apart, which is 247% more for the same dish. Of the 13 kitchens listed, 4 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 4 sit within a dollar of it and 5 charge more than a dollar over.

We track salad in 49 other areas and compare them all on salad across Canada. The typical price there runs $12.50 at the median, so Halifax is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 45 of the 49. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Billie Jax Grill & Bar in Whitby, ON, and the highest best price is $8.99 in Chilliwack, BC. The nearest area with it is Charlottetown, about 155 km away, where the best price is $6.00.

Where is the cheapest salad in Halifax? Wasabi House, at $4.75 on 6403 Quinpool Road. The same dish reaches $16.50 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $11.75.

What should salad cost here? About $7.49 is the typical price across the 13 kitchens in Halifax that list it. Of the ones listed above, 4 are more than a dollar below that and 5 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 $6.00. That is $1.25 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.