Pizza in Ottawa

5 restaurants in Ottawa list pizza on their menus. The cheapest is Hometown Sports Grill at $11.00, listed as VEGAN PIZZA. The typical price across town is $19.95, and the dearest we found is $32.99 at The Grand Pizzeria & Bar, so the two ends of the list are $21.99 apart, which is 200% more for the same dish. Of the 5 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 1 sits within a dollar of it and 2 charge more than a dollar over.

We track pizza in 10 other areas and compare them all on pizza across Canada. The typical price there runs $24.00 at the median, so Ottawa is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 9 of the 10. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $10.45 at Jay Bee's Diner in Edmonton, AB, and the highest best price is $22.00 in Vancouver, BC. The nearest area with it is Toronto, about 356 km away, where the best price is $15.00.

Where is the cheapest pizza in Ottawa? Hometown Sports Grill, at $11.00 on 1525 Bank St. The same dish reaches $32.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $21.99.

What should pizza cost here? About $19.95 is the typical price across the 5 kitchens in Ottawa that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 are more than a dollar below that and 2 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 Toronto, about 356 km away, where the best price is $15.00. That is $4.00 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.