Edamame in Toronto

4 restaurants in Toronto list edamame on their menus. The cheapest is RAMEN RAIJIN at $5.50. The typical price across town is $8.00, and the dearest we found is $15.00 at Prince Japanese Steak House, so the two ends of the list are $9.50 apart, which is 173% 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 edamame in 4 other areas and compare them all on edamame across Canada. The typical price there runs $7.50 at the median, so Toronto is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 1 of the 4. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $5.00 at Kazoku Ramen in Edmonton, AB, and the highest best price is $5.95 in Moncton, NB. The nearest area with it is Moncton, about 1193 km away, where the best price is $5.95.

Where is the cheapest edamame in Toronto? RAMEN RAIJIN, at $5.50 on 24 Wellesley St. West Rear. The same dish reaches $15.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $9.50.

What should edamame cost here? About $8.00 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 Moncton, about 1193 km away, where the best price is $5.95. That is $0.45 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.