Poutine in St. Catharines

7 restaurants in St. Catharines list poutine on their menus. The cheapest is Kelseys Original Roadhouse at $5.98. The typical price across town is $10.99, and the dearest we found is $12.99 at Boston Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $7.01 apart, which is 117% more for the same dish. Of the 7 kitchens listed, 3 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 1 sits within a dollar of it and 3 charge more than a dollar over.

We track poutine in 40 other areas and compare them all on poutine across Canada. The typical price there runs $11.00 at the median, so St. Catharines is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 20 of the 40. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Cramdon's Tap & Eatery in Windsor, ON, and the highest best price is $12.00 in Banff, AB. The nearest area with it is Niagara Falls, about 16 km away, where the best price is $5.99.

Where is the cheapest poutine in St. Catharines? Kelseys Original Roadhouse, at $5.98 on 221 Glendale Ave. The same dish reaches $12.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $7.01.

What should poutine cost here? About $10.99 is the typical price across the 7 kitchens in St. Catharines 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 Niagara Falls, about 16 km away, where the best price is $5.99. That is $0.01 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.