Parmigiana in Hamilton

6 restaurants in Hamilton list parmigiana on their menus. The cheapest is Gennaro's Italian Restaurant & Tomato Pies at $15.00, listed as VEAL PARM. The typical price across town is $22.99, and the dearest we found is $38.00 at Shakespeares, so the two ends of the list are $23.00 apart, which is 153% more for the same dish. Of the 6 kitchens listed, 3 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 1 sits within a dollar of it and 2 charge more than a dollar over.

We track parmigiana in 17 other areas and compare them all on parmigiana across Canada. The typical price there runs $24.49 at the median, so Hamilton is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 11 of the 17. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $9.00 at Ciao Amici in Oshawa, ON, and the highest best price is $22.99 in Milton, ON. The nearest area with it is Milton, about 30 km away, where the best price is $22.99.

Where is the cheapest parmigiana in Hamilton? Gennaro's Italian Restaurant & Tomato Pies, at $15.00 on 4613 Nottingham Way. The same dish reaches $38.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $23.00.

What should parmigiana cost here? About $22.99 is the typical price across the 6 kitchens in Hamilton that list it. Of the ones listed above, 3 are 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 Milton, about 30 km away, where the best price is $22.99. That is $7.99 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.