French Onion Soup in Ottawa

4 restaurants in Ottawa list french onion soup on their menus. The cheapest is Colonnade Pizza Carling at $9.95. The typical price across town is $12.99, and the dearest we found is $15.00 at Chop Steakhouse & Bar, so the two ends of the list are $5.05 apart, which is 51% more for the same dish. Of the 4 kitchens listed, 2 charge 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 french onion soup in 4 other areas and compare them all on french onion soup 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 3 of the 4. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $8.00 at Begin Tower Dining Centre in Calgary, AB, and the highest best price is $19.00 in Vancouver, BC. The nearest area with it is Kingston, about 140 km away, where the best price is $9.95.

Where is the cheapest french onion soup in Ottawa? Colonnade Pizza Carling, at $9.95 on 2140 Carling Ave. The same dish reaches $15.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $5.05.

What should french onion soup cost here? About $12.99 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Ottawa that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 are 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 Kingston, about 140 km away, where the best price is $9.95. 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.