Salad in Victoria

11 restaurants in Victoria list salad on their menus. The cheapest is Sen Zushi at $5.50, listed as Seaweed Salad. The typical price across town is $12.50, and the dearest we found is $21.00 at Marilena Cafe & Raw Bar, so the two ends of the list are $15.50 apart, which is 282% more for the same dish. Of the 11 kitchens listed, 3 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 3 sit within a dollar of it and 5 charge more than a dollar over.

We track salad in 49 other areas and compare them all on salad across Canada. The typical price there runs $11.95 at the median, so Victoria is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 24 of the 49. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Billie Jax Grill & Bar in Whitby, ON, and the highest best price is $8.99 in Chilliwack, BC. The nearest area with it is Chilliwack, about 98 km away, where the best price is $8.99.

Where is the cheapest salad in Victoria? Sen Zushi, at $5.50 on 940 Fort Street. The same dish reaches $21.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $15.50.

What should salad cost here? About $12.50 is the typical price across the 11 kitchens in Victoria that list it. Of the ones listed above, 3 are more than a dollar below that and 5 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 $8.99. That is $3.49 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.