Quesadilla in Thunder Bay

8 restaurants in Thunder Bay list quesadilla on their menus. The cheapest is Malabar Mandi Kitchen at $11.95, listed as Chicken Quesadilla. The typical price across town is $15.99, and the dearest we found is $19.99 at Mike's Roadhouse, so the two ends of the list are $8.04 apart, which is 67% more for the same dish. Of the 8 kitchens listed, 3 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 4 sit within a dollar of it and 1 charges more than a dollar over.

We track quesadilla in 31 other areas and compare them all on quesadilla across Canada. The typical price there runs $16.99 at the median, so Thunder Bay is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 25 of the 31. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $5.00 at Varsha Indian Kitchen in Victoria, BC, and the highest best price is $17.95 in Grande Prairie, AB. The nearest area with it is Winnipeg, about 587 km away, where the best price is $8.99.

Where is the cheapest quesadilla in Thunder Bay? Malabar Mandi Kitchen, at $11.95 on 1408 Brown St. The same dish reaches $19.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $8.04.

What should quesadilla cost here? About $15.99 is the typical price across the 8 kitchens in Thunder Bay that list it. Of the ones listed above, 3 are 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 Winnipeg, about 587 km away, where the best price is $8.99. That is $2.96 less than the best here, though whether that is worth the journey is your call.

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.