Wings in Toronto

14 restaurants in Toronto list wings on their menus. The cheapest is El Furniture Warehouse at $11.75. The typical price across town is $21.75, and the dearest we found is $26.00 at SOCO Kitchen + Bar, so the two ends of the list are $14.25 apart, which is 121% more for the same dish. Of the 14 kitchens listed, 8 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 4 sit within a dollar of it and 2 charge more than a dollar over.

We track wings in 29 other areas and compare them all on wings across Canada. The typical price there runs $19.00 at the median, so Toronto is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 1 of the 29. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $7.00 at Noble Cuisine in Barrie, ON, and the highest best price is $18.00 in Kingston, ON. The nearest area with it is Brampton, about 12 km away, where the best price is $11.99.

Where is the cheapest wings in Toronto? El Furniture Warehouse, at $11.75 on 410 Bloor Street West. The same dish reaches $26.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $14.25.

What should wings cost here? About $21.75 is the typical price across the 14 kitchens in Toronto that list it. Of the ones listed above, 8 are more than a dollar below that and 2 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 Brampton, about 12 km away, where the best price is $11.99. That is $0.24 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.