Poutine in St. John's

3 restaurants in St. John's list poutine on their menus. The cheapest is Kelsey's at $5.98. The typical price across town is $11.99, and the dearest we found is $13.49 at Boston Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $7.51 apart, which is 126% more for the same dish. Of the 3 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 1 sits within a dollar of it and 1 charges 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 $10.99 at the median, so St. John's is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 16 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 Charlottetown, about 829 km away, where the best price is $7.29.

Where is the cheapest poutine in St. John's? Kelsey's, at $5.98. The same dish reaches $13.49 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $7.51.

What should poutine cost here? About $11.99 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in St. John's 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 Charlottetown, about 829 km away, where the best price is $7.29. That is $1.31 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.