Calamari in Winnipeg

4 restaurants in Winnipeg list calamari on their menus. The cheapest is Peg's Bistro at $9.99. The typical price across town is $20.00, and the dearest we found is $20.75 at Earls Polo Park, so the two ends of the list are $10.76 apart, which is 108% 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 calamari in 16 other areas and compare them all on calamari across Canada. The typical price there runs $18.00 at the median, so Winnipeg is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 3 of the 16. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $9.00 at Joe Muer Seafood in Windsor, ON, and the highest best price is $16.95 in Grande Prairie, AB. The nearest area with it is Regina, about 548 km away, where the best price is $12.50.

Where is the cheapest calamari in Winnipeg? Peg's Bistro, at $9.99 on 1615 Regent Avenue West. The same dish reaches $20.75 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $10.76.

What should calamari cost here? About $20.00 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Winnipeg 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 Regina, about 548 km away, where the best price is $12.50. That is $2.51 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.