Steak Frites in Ottawa

6 restaurants in Ottawa list steak frites on their menus. The cheapest is Wellington Diner at $22.99. The typical price across town is $43.00, and the dearest we found is $55.00 at Starling, so the two ends of the list are $32.01 apart, which is 139% more for the same dish. Of the 6 kitchens listed, 3 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 steak frites in 6 other areas and compare them all on steak frites across Canada. The typical price there runs $39.00 at the median, so Ottawa is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 0 of the 6. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $22.00 at Our House Neighborhood Joint in Calgary, AB, and the highest best price is $38.00 in Kingston, ON. The nearest area with it is Kingston, about 140 km away, where the best price is $38.00.

Where is the cheapest steak frites in Ottawa? Wellington Diner, at $22.99 on 1385 Wellington St. W. The same dish reaches $55.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $32.01.

What should steak frites cost here? About $43.00 is the typical price across the 6 kitchens in Ottawa that list it. Of the ones listed above, 3 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 Kingston, about 140 km away, where the best price is $38.00. That is $15.01 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.