Caesar in Vancouver

3 restaurants in Vancouver list caesar on their menus. The cheapest is Basil Pasta Bar at $5.45, listed as Classic Caesar. The typical price across town is $12.00, and the dearest we found is $19.00 at Riley's Fish & Steak, so the two ends of the list are $13.55 apart, which is 249% 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 caesar in 1 other area and compare them all on caesar across Canada. The typical price there runs $14.99 at the median, so Vancouver is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 1 of the 1. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $13.00 at Thirteen Food & Beverage in Cambridge, ON. The nearest area with it is Cambridge, about 3316 km away, where the best price is $13.00.

Where is the cheapest caesar in Vancouver? Basil Pasta Bar, at $5.45 on 636 Davie Street. The same dish reaches $19.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $13.55.

What should caesar cost here? About $12.00 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Vancouver 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 Cambridge, about 3316 km away, where the best price is $13.00. That is $7.55 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.