Quesadilla in Victoria

3 restaurants in Victoria list quesadilla on their menus. The cheapest is Varsha Indian Kitchen at $5.00, listed as CHEESE QUESADILLA. The typical price across town is $11.25, and the dearest we found is $12.00 at MAiiZ Tortilleria & Eatery, so the two ends of the list are $7.00 apart, which is 140% more for the same dish. Of the 3 kitchens listed, 1 charges 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 quesadilla in 31 other areas and compare them all on quesadilla across Canada. The typical price there runs $16.99 at the median, so Victoria is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 30 of the 31. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $6.00 at Gina's Mexican Cafe in Nanaimo, BC, and the highest best price is $17.95 in Grande Prairie, AB. The nearest area with it is Chilliwack, about 98 km away, where the best price is $14.95.

Where is the cheapest quesadilla in Victoria? Varsha Indian Kitchen, at $5.00 on 1600 Government Street. The same dish reaches $12.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $7.00.

What should quesadilla cost here? About $11.25 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Victoria that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is 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 Chilliwack, about 98 km away, where the best price is $14.95. That is $9.95 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.