Quesadilla in Ottawa

7 restaurants in Ottawa list quesadilla on their menus. The cheapest is Nostalgica Pub & Beer Garden at $10.50. The typical price across town is $16.99, and the dearest we found is $21.00 at Alice’s Village Cafe, so the two ends of the list are $10.50 apart, which is 100% more for the same dish. Of the 7 kitchens listed, 3 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 1 sits within a dollar of it and 3 charge more than a dollar over.

We track quesadilla in 31 other areas and compare them all on quesadilla across Canada. The typical price there runs $16.99 at the median, so Ottawa is about average, with a lower typical price than 8 of the 31. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $5.00 at Varsha Indian Kitchen in Victoria, BC, and the highest best price is $17.95 in Grande Prairie, AB. The nearest area with it is Kingston, about 140 km away, where the best price is $14.99.

Where is the cheapest quesadilla in Ottawa? Nostalgica Pub & Beer Garden, at $10.50. The same dish reaches $21.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $10.50.

What should quesadilla cost here? About $16.99 is the typical price across the 7 kitchens in Ottawa that list it. Of the ones listed above, 3 are more than a dollar below that and 3 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 Kingston, about 140 km away, where the best price is $14.99. That is $4.49 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.