Chilli Chicken in Toronto

4 restaurants in Toronto list chilli chicken on their menus. The cheapest is Sector 17 at $12.99. The typical price across town is $16.50, and the dearest we found is $16.95 at Angara Indian and Hakka Cuisine, so the two ends of the list are $3.96 apart, which is 30% more for the same dish. Of the 4 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 0 charge more than a dollar over.

We track chilli chicken in 7 other areas and compare them all on chilli chicken across Canada. The typical price there runs $15.99 at the median, so Toronto is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 3 of the 7. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $12.99 at Hyderabad House Calgary NW in Calgary, AB, and the highest best price is $16.00 in Ottawa, ON. The nearest area with it is Brampton, about 12 km away, where the best price is $14.99.

Where is the cheapest chilli chicken in Toronto? Sector 17, at $12.99 on 268 Dundas Street East. The same dish reaches $16.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $3.96.

What should chilli chicken cost here? About $16.50 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 0 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 $14.99. That is $2.00 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.