Butter Chicken in Ottawa

8 restaurants in Ottawa list butter chicken on their menus. The cheapest is Taara - Pan Indian Resto Bar at $9.99. The typical price across town is $18.49, and the dearest we found is $25.00 at Tumeric, so the two ends of the list are $15.01 apart, which is 150% more for the same dish. Of the 8 kitchens listed, 3 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 3 charge more than a dollar over.

We track butter chicken in 19 other areas and compare them all on butter chicken across Canada. The typical price there runs $18.00 at the median, so Ottawa is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 7 of the 19. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $12.50 at Tazah Taste in Brampton, ON, and the highest best price is $15.99 in Windsor, ON. The nearest area with it is Oshawa, about 296 km away, where the best price is $15.49.

Where is the cheapest butter chicken in Ottawa? Taara - Pan Indian Resto Bar, at $9.99 on 727 Churchill Avenue North. The same dish reaches $25.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $15.01.

What should butter chicken cost here? About $18.49 is the typical price across the 8 kitchens in Ottawa that list it. Of the ones listed above, 3 are more than a dollar below that and 3 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 Oshawa, about 296 km away, where the best price is $15.49. That is $5.50 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.