Parmigiana in Toronto

4 restaurants in Toronto list parmigiana on their menus. The cheapest is The Open Cork at $17.95, listed as Eggplant Parmigiana. The typical price across town is $28.00, and the dearest we found is $30.00 at Pulcinella Ristorante Italiano, so the two ends of the list are $12.05 apart, which is 67% more for the same dish. Of the 4 kitchens listed, 2 charge 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 parmigiana in 17 other areas and compare them all on parmigiana across Canada. The typical price there runs $24.00 at the median, so Toronto is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 1 of the 17. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $9.00 at Ciao Amici in Oshawa, ON, and the highest best price is $22.99 in Milton, ON. The nearest area with it is Mississauga, about 17 km away, where the best price is $22.99.

Where is the cheapest parmigiana in Toronto? The Open Cork, at $17.95. The same dish reaches $30.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $12.05.

What should parmigiana cost here? About $28.00 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Toronto that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 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 Mississauga, about 17 km away, where the best price is $22.99. That is $5.04 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.