Pizza in Toronto

8 restaurants in Toronto list pizza on their menus. The cheapest is eggspectation at $15.00, listed as Chorizo Pizza. The typical price across town is $20.50, and the dearest we found is $24.75 at Earls Yorkdale, so the two ends of the list are $9.75 apart, which is 65% more for the same dish. Of the 8 kitchens listed, 4 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 1 sits within a dollar of it and 3 charge more than a dollar over.

We track pizza in 10 other areas and compare them all on pizza across Canada. The typical price there runs $24.00 at the median, so Toronto is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 8 of the 10. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $10.45 at Jay Bee's Diner in Edmonton, AB, and the highest best price is $22.00 in Vancouver, BC. The nearest area with it is Mississauga, about 17 km away, where the best price is $19.95.

Where is the cheapest pizza in Toronto? eggspectation, at $15.00 on 483 Bay Street. The same dish reaches $24.75 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $9.75.

What should pizza cost here? About $20.50 is the typical price across the 8 kitchens in Toronto that list it. Of the ones listed above, 4 are more than a dollar below that and 3 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 Mississauga, about 17 km away, where the best price is $19.95. That is $4.95 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.