Truffle Fries in Vancouver

10 restaurants in Vancouver list truffle fries on their menus. The cheapest is Riley's Fish & Steak at $8.00. The typical price across town is $13.75, and the dearest we found is $19.00 at Hawksworth Restaurant, so the two ends of the list are $11.00 apart, which is 138% more for the same dish. Of the 10 kitchens listed, 4 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 3 sit within a dollar of it and 3 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 $14.75 at the median, so Vancouver is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 2 of the 3. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $7.50 at CAFE LANDWER in Toronto, ON, and the highest best price is $9.00 in Saskatoon, SK. The nearest area with it is Kelowna, about 272 km away, where the best price is $9.00.

Where is the cheapest truffle fries in Vancouver? Riley's Fish & Steak, at $8.00. The same dish reaches $19.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $11.00.

What should truffle fries cost here? About $13.75 is the typical price across the 10 kitchens in Vancouver 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 Kelowna, about 272 km away, where the best price is $9.00. That is $1.00 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.