Fish And Chips in Hamilton

3 restaurants in Hamilton list fish and chips on their menus. The cheapest is Bistro-2-Go at $10.99. The typical price across town is $18.99, and the dearest we found is $22.00 at Aberdeen Tavern, so the two ends of the list are $11.01 apart, which is 100% 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 fish and chips in 8 other areas and compare them all on fish and chips across Canada. The typical price there runs $20.99 at the median, so Hamilton is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 4 of the 8. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $10.95 at El Furniture Warehouse Ottawa in Ottawa, ON, and the highest best price is $22.00 in Guelph, ON. The nearest area with it is Brantford, about 47 km away, where the best price is $16.50.

Where is the cheapest fish and chips in Hamilton? Bistro-2-Go, at $10.99. The same dish reaches $22.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $11.01.

What should fish and chips cost here? About $18.99 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Hamilton 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 Brantford, about 47 km away, where the best price is $16.50. That is $5.51 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.