Salad in Hamilton

33 restaurants in Hamilton list salad on their menus. The cheapest is Kelseys Original Roadhouse at $4.98, listed as Caesar Salad. The typical price across town is $14.00, and the dearest we found is $23.99 at Ye Olde Squire - Hamilton Mountain (Upper James), so the two ends of the list are $19.01 apart, which is 382% more for the same dish. Of the 33 kitchens listed, 15 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 6 sit within a dollar of it and 12 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 $11.95 at the median, so Hamilton is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 16 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 Oakville, about 22 km away, where the best price is $5.50.

Where is the cheapest salad in Hamilton? Kelseys Original Roadhouse, at $4.98 on 771 Golf Links Rd. The same dish reaches $23.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $19.01.

What should salad cost here? About $14.00 is the typical price across the 33 kitchens in Hamilton that list it. Of the ones listed above, 15 are more than a dollar below that and 12 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 Oakville, about 22 km away, where the best price is $5.50. That is $0.52 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.