Bruschetta in Ottawa

7 restaurants in Ottawa list bruschetta on their menus. The cheapest is La Favorita at $9.00. The typical price across town is $15.00, and the dearest we found is $17.00 at Amberwood Lounge & Eatery, so the two ends of the list are $8.00 apart, which is 89% more for the same dish. Of the 7 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 5 sit within a dollar of it and 1 charges more than a dollar over.

We track bruschetta in 8 other areas and compare them all on bruschetta across Canada. The typical price there runs $14.00 at the median, so Ottawa is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 2 of the 8. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.50 at Jameson's Pub in Calgary, AB, and the highest best price is $18.00 in Guelph, ON. The nearest area with it is Belleville, about 186 km away, where the best price is $11.50.

Where is the cheapest bruschetta in Ottawa? La Favorita, at $9.00 on 356 Preston St. The same dish reaches $17.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $8.00.

What should bruschetta cost here? About $15.00 is the typical price across the 7 kitchens in Ottawa that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is 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 Belleville, about 186 km away, where the best price is $11.50. That is $2.50 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.