Hummus in Toronto

3 restaurants in Toronto list hummus on their menus. The cheapest is Viva Sub at $5.99. The typical price across town is $11.49, and the dearest we found is $25.00 at Krystos Modern Greek Cuisine, so the two ends of the list are $19.01 apart, which is 317% more for the same dish. Of the 3 kitchens listed, 1 charges 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 hummus in 3 other areas and compare them all on hummus across Canada. The typical price there runs $11.00 at the median, so Toronto is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 1 of the 3. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Sidewalk Citizen in Calgary, AB, and the highest best price is $12.49 in Vancouver, BC. The nearest area with it is Mississauga, about 17 km away, where the best price is $8.00.

Where is the cheapest hummus in Toronto? Viva Sub, at $5.99 on 1178 The Queensway. The same dish reaches $25.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $19.01.

What should hummus cost here? About $11.49 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Toronto that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is 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 $8.00. That is $2.01 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.