Chana Masala in Ottawa

3 restaurants in Ottawa list chana masala on their menus. The cheapest is Taara - Pan Indian Resto Bar at $8.99. The typical price across town is $16.49, and the dearest we found is $23.00 at Tumeric, so the two ends of the list are $14.01 apart, which is 156% 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 chana masala in 2 other areas and compare them all on chana masala across Canada. The typical price there runs $13.99 at the median, so Ottawa is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 0 of the 2. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $8.99 at Tawa Kitchen in Brampton, ON, and the highest best price is $12.50 in Saskatoon, SK. The nearest area with it is Brampton, about 367 km away, where the best price is $8.99.

Where is the cheapest chana masala in Ottawa? Taara - Pan Indian Resto Bar, at $8.99 on 727 Churchill Avenue North. The same dish reaches $23.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $14.01.

What should chana masala cost here? About $16.49 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Ottawa 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 Brampton, about 367 km away, where the best price is $8.99. That is the same as 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.