Truffle Fries in Toronto

4 restaurants in Toronto list truffle fries on their menus. The cheapest is CAFE LANDWER at $7.50. The typical price across town is $14.75, and the dearest we found is $15.00 at Score on King, so the two ends of the list are $7.50 apart, which is 100% 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 truffle fries in 3 other areas and compare them all on truffle fries across Canada. The typical price there runs $13.75 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 $8.00 at Riley's Fish & Steak in Vancouver, BC, and the highest best price is $9.00 in Saskatoon, SK. The nearest area with it is Saskatoon, about 2205 km away, where the best price is $9.00.

Where is the cheapest truffle fries in Toronto? CAFE LANDWER, at $7.50 on 33 Yonge Street. The same dish reaches $15.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $7.50.

What should truffle fries cost here? About $14.75 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 Saskatoon, about 2205 km away, where the best price is $9.00. That is $1.50 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.