Calamari in Prince George

3 restaurants in Prince George list calamari on their menus. The cheapest is The Black Clover at $12.00, listed as Grilled Calamari. The typical price across town is $20.75, and the dearest we found is $21.00 at Mulino Kitchen, so the two ends of the list are $9.00 apart, which is 75% more for the same dish. Of the 3 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 0 charge more than a dollar over.

We track calamari in 16 other areas and compare them all on calamari across Canada. The typical price there runs $18.00 at the median, so Prince George is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 1 of the 16. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $9.00 at Joe Muer Seafood in Windsor, ON, and the highest best price is $16.95 in Grande Prairie, AB. The nearest area with it is Grande Prairie, about 292 km away, where the best price is $16.95.

Where is the cheapest calamari in Prince George? The Black Clover, at $12.00 on 1165 5th Ave. The same dish reaches $21.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $9.00.

What should calamari cost here? About $20.75 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Prince George that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is more than a dollar below that and 0 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 Grande Prairie, about 292 km away, where the best price is $16.95. That is $4.95 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.