Salad in Ottawa

41 restaurants in Ottawa list salad on their menus, and the 40 cheapest are listed above. The cheapest is State & Main at $5.50, listed as Caesar Salad. The typical price across town is $15.50, and the dearest of the 40 listed is $26.00 at Hometown Sports Grill, so the two ends of the list are $20.50 apart, which is 373% more for the same dish. Of the 40 kitchens listed, 17 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 7 sit within a dollar of it and 16 charge more than a dollar over.

We track salad in 49 other areas and compare them all on salad across Canada. The typical price there runs $11.95 at the median, so Ottawa is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 7 of the 49. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Billie Jax Grill & Bar in Whitby, ON, and the highest best price is $8.99 in Chilliwack, BC. The nearest area with it is Kingston, about 140 km away, where the best price is $6.00.

Where is the cheapest salad in Ottawa? State & Main, at $5.50 on 1880 Ogilvie Rd. The same dish reaches $26.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $20.50.

What should salad cost here? About $15.50 is the typical price across the 41 kitchens in Ottawa that list it. Of the ones listed above, 17 are more than a dollar below that and 16 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 $6.00. That is $0.50 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.