Wings in Ottawa

16 restaurants in Ottawa list wings on their menus. The cheapest is Lone Star Texas Grill at $9.50, listed as 10 Wings. The typical price across town is $16.95, and the dearest we found is $23.99 at Montana's BBQ & Bar - Barrhaven, so the two ends of the list are $14.49 apart, which is 153% more for the same dish. Of the 16 kitchens listed, 7 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 5 sit within a dollar of it and 4 charge more than a dollar over.

We track wings in 29 other areas and compare them all on wings across Canada. The typical price there runs $19.00 at the median, so Ottawa is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 27 of the 29. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $7.00 at Noble Cuisine in Barrie, ON, and the highest best price is $18.00 in Kingston, ON. The nearest area with it is Kingston, about 140 km away, where the best price is $18.00.

Where is the cheapest wings in Ottawa? Lone Star Texas Grill, at $9.50 on 4275 Strandherd Drive. The same dish reaches $23.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $14.49.

What should wings cost here? About $16.95 is the typical price across the 16 kitchens in Ottawa that list it. Of the ones listed above, 7 are more than a dollar below that and 4 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 $18.00. That is $8.50 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.