Montana's menu prices in Canada

I built this Montana's restaurant price list from menus and receipts in Toronto, Kingston and Hamilton. Most items had two prices, a lower one and a higher one, and working out why turned into the real story here: two different causes, not one.

Quick facts

The numbers below come from the category tables that follow.

*Average of the priced Forks and Knives entrees, using the midpoint of any range; see methodology below.

Montana's menu prices by category

These are every priced item in the compiled file, organized the way Montana's own menu organizes them. Where several flavours share one price, the bottled beers, for instance, I've combined them into a row. A further 22 items are listed only as Varies; rather than guess, I've left those out.

Starters and appetizers

Fall off the bone ribs

Steaks, 100 percent Canadian

Burgers

Sandwiches and hand helds

Forks and knives entrees

Big salads

Sides and add ons

Kids menu

Desserts

Drinks

Beer

Wine and cocktails

Montana's Market sauces

Combos for two and more

Why the same order can cost more: two different reasons, not one

Of the 174 priced rows in this file, 52 are quoted as a range. My assumption going in was that this was purely a Toronto, Kingston and Hamilton story, three cities blended into one list. Twenty-seven of those 52 items say otherwise.

Those 27, just over half, all show a high price roughly 1.2001 to 1.2003 times the low price, an exact 20 percent markup rounded to the cent: the Double Dusted Chicken Wings at $15.99 to $19.19, a full rack of ribs at $30.99 to $37.19. That precision, repeated 27 times across unrelated categories, isn't three locations pricing independently. I checked it against Kelsey's, a sister Recipe Unlimited brand I've priced separately: its in-restaurant menu against its Uber Eats listing, item by item, lines up at 1.2001x to 1.2007x on five items, including a $24.99 to $29.99 pair that matches Montana's own Half Rack exactly. That's a confirmed delivery markup on a sister chain under the same parent, and the likely reading for Montana's 27 matching items is the same mechanism: low number in-restaurant or takeout, high number the same order through a delivery app.

I can't prove that from the Montana's file alone. It doesn't label which number is which, so this is an inference from a matching pattern, not a receipt marked delivery. The other 25 items don't fit that multiplier, and those look like genuine geography instead: spreads run from $1.00 on the Big Grill Trio (3.5 percent) to $5.20 on the 10 oz sirloin (16.3 percent), no consistent ratio tying them together. Both explanations probably hold at once, on different parts of the same menu.

At the till, that most likely means the eight-piece wings are $15.99 ordered at the counter or for takeout, and $19.19 for the identical order through a delivery app, not a different price at a different Montana's. For the 25 items that don't fit the multiplier, the older explanation still applies: which of the three cities you're ordering from can genuinely change the price.

Sides and Add-Ons is the cleanest category: zero of 24 priced items carry a range, no location story and no delivery markup either. Beer, wine, the Market sauces and the combos are just as consistent. Kids menu sits opposite, five of six items ranged, the highest share on the menu, and all five match the 1.2001x delivery pattern exactly, none of them the irregular, geography type. Stick to sides, beer or combos and the price is the price; order off the kids menu and you're likely looking at an app markup, not a different city. Even the Steak Caesar Salad, at $22.99 flat, skips the range the plain version carries ($13.99 to $16.79), a pattern that holds for every steak-topped or lobster-topped item on the menu.

Ribs and steaks, where the money is on this menu

Ribs and steaks carry the highest prices on the menu. Pork back ribs come in three sizes: Taster Plate $17.99 to $21.59, Half Rack $24.99 to $29.99, Full Rack $30.99 to $37.19. Upgrading gets cheaper as you go: Taster to Half adds $7.00 at the low end, but Half to Full only adds $6.00. At the high end, it's $8.40 then $7.20. The Full Rack is the better per-step value.

The Honkin' Beef Rib is pricier still, $38.99 to $43.19, but its 10.8 percent spread isn't the 1.2001x delivery multiplier the three pork sizes carry, more likely genuine location variation. That shrinks its premium over the Full Rack as prices rise, from $8.00 more at the low end to just $6.00 more at the high end.

The steaks run a 7 oz and 10 oz sirloin plus a 12 oz striploin, each ranged. The 7 oz sirloin, $26.99 to $31.19, works out to $3.86 to $4.46 per ounce. The 10 oz, $31.99 to $37.19, is $3.20 to $3.72 per ounce, cheaper at both ends: the bigger cut is the better rate everywhere. The 12 oz striploin runs $37.99 to $45.59, roughly $3.17 to $3.80 per ounce, and unlike either sirloin, that's another 1.2001x delivery match, not geography, and the single largest dollar gap on the whole menu at $7.60. Surf and turf upgrades, priced flat rather than ranged, break both patterns entirely.

The Double Surf Your Turf costs exactly $19.20 more than the high end of the matching steak at every size. A lobster topper or tail runs a flat $12.00 more instead, both priced identically, so that choice is preference, not cost. Measured against the lower steak price, the same upgrade effectively runs $23.40 to $26.80 more, since the flat surf and turf price doesn't get whatever discount, delivery or location, applies to the cheaper steak underneath it.

Kids menu and sides

Only the Ooey Gooey grilled cheese holds a flat price on the kids menu, $6.99; everything else follows roughly the same 20 percent pattern as the adult menu, topping out at $11.99.

Sides tell the opposite story: zero of 24 priced items in Sides and Add-Ons carry a range, from $0.83 condiments to the $10.79 Large onion rings.

For feeding a family, the Southern BBQ combo for four at $71.99 works out to $18.00 per person, the best rate of any combo on the menu. The four combos for two, steak, chicken, burger and rib, are all $53.94, or $26.97 per person. For the lowest possible ticket, pair the flat-priced grilled cheese with a couple of $3.59 sides, mash, rice, beans or coleslaw.

Value analysis: the best and worst dollars on this menu

Montana's publishes no calorie counts, so value here is measured per person and per step up the rib ladder.

The best rate on the menu is the Southern BBQ combo for four at $71.99, which works out to $18.00 a head. Every combo for two — steak, chicken, burger and rib — costs $53.94, or $26.97 a person, so feeding four through the four-person combo costs a third less per person than feeding two through a two-person one. That is the widest per-person gap of any bundle set on this site.

Ribs get cheaper per step as the rack gets longer. The rib analysis above sets it out: Taster to Half Rack adds $7.00 at the low end, Half to Full only $6.00. The full rack is the better per-step buy, and the Honkin' Beef Rib's premium over it shrinks from $8.00 to $6.00 as prices rise.

The cheapest complete order on the menu is built from the flat-priced items. The Ooey Gooey grilled cheese at $6.99 is the only kids' item that does not carry a range, and the sides at $3.59 — mash, rice, beans or coleslaw — do not either. Pair them and you have the lowest ticket Montana's sells, assembled entirely from prices that cannot move on you.

The worst dollar, in the sense of the least predictable one, is anything priced as a range: 52 of the 174 rows on this page carry two prices, and the section above shows why more than half of those are not a range at all.

Regional price variance: what the same order costs across Canada

This page already separates the two things that move a Montana's price, and the finding is worth restating here because it is the strongest evidence on this site that "regional variation" is often not regional at all. Of the 52 ranged items, 27 show a high price exactly 1.2001 to 1.2003 times the low price — a flat 20% multiplier that matches the confirmed Uber Eats markup at Kelsey's, a sister Recipe Unlimited chain. Those are almost certainly counter price against app price, not Toronto against Kingston. The other 25 spread irregularly, from 3.5% to 16.3%, with no ratio tying them together, and those do look like genuine geography.

So the pre-tax layer here has two causes stacked on one menu, and the ratio is what tells them apart. What drives the geographic half is rent, wages and local competition rather than tax. The only measured example of that spread on this site is at Kelsey's, where one item runs $20.99 in Ottawa and $23.99 in Niagara Falls — 14.3% apart inside one province, with no tax difference between the two restaurants at all.

The tax layer is fixed by statute and can be stated exactly:

Ontario rebates the 8% provincial portion of the HST on qualifying prepared food and beverages where the transaction total is $4.00 or less, so small orders pay 5% rather than 13%. Well under a quarter of what is priced here sits at or under that line, and all of it is sides, sauces and drinks — this is a sit-down menu built above the threshold. It still produces one sharp edge:

That $0.83 sauce costs $1.23 — 148% of its list price. The rule is worked through in the six-doughnut tax guide. Provinces outside the HST group tax restaurant food differently again, and I have not verified their current treatment item by item, so the 5% column above is the floor rather than a claim about any particular province.

Delivery markup: counter price against app price

Montana's is one of the few chains on this site where a delivery markup can be inferred from the price file itself rather than modelled. The 27 items carrying a 1.2001x ratio point at a flat 20% markup, the same figure confirmed item by item at Kelsey's. I cannot prove it from the Montana's file alone — it does not label which number is which — so this remains an inference from a matching pattern rather than a receipt marked delivery.

Read that way, the file already tells you what delivery costs here:

The kids' menu is the part of this menu most exposed to it: five of six kids' items are ranged, the highest share on the page, and all five match the 1.2001x pattern exactly rather than the irregular geographic one. Order for a child through an app and the markup is close to certain; order a side, a beer or a combo, none of which carry a range at all, and the price is the price.

Set against the other measured Canadian model, a flat $1.40 per item, the percentage is much the worse deal on this menu. A flat surcharge costs 1.8% on the $77.99 Family BBQ Combo; 20% costs $15.60 on the same order. The restaurant sets the in-app price, not the platform, so SkipTheDishes, Uber Eats and DoorDash listings for the same restaurant usually start from the same marked-up list and diverge in the fee stack instead. I have not matched prices across the three platforms and will not name a cheapest one. The cross-chain comparison is in the delivery app markup guide.

PDF

Every price on this page, all 15 categories and both ends of every range, is also available as a printable summary, current as of August 6, 2026. This is Froqel's own compiled list, not a copy of anything Montana's publishes. Your browser's print or save-as-PDF function will capture these tables directly, and we update the printable version on the same schedule as the page, so check the date at the top before relying on an old one.

Montana's and its Recipe Unlimited siblings

Montana's is one of four Canadian casual-dining chains under Recipe Unlimited, alongside Swiss Chalet's rotisserie chicken menu and Harvey's burger and poutine prices, both priced in full elsewhere on this site. Kelsey's is the fourth, and the pricing pattern connecting it to Montana's is covered above.

Frequently asked questions

What is the average price of a main at Montana's?

The average price across the Forks and knives entrees works out to $23.70, using the midpoint of any ranged item. That excludes ribs, steaks, burgers and sandwiches, which all run higher.

How much does a full rack of ribs cost at Montana's?

A full rack of pork back ribs runs $30.99 to $37.19, a $6.20 spread that matches a verified delivery markup pattern on this menu, more likely in-restaurant versus delivery-app pricing than two different cities. The Half Rack ($24.99 to $29.99) and Taster Plate ($17.99 to $21.59) show the same pattern.

Why does Montana's menu show two prices for some items?

Some of it is genuine location variation, and some is likely delivery pricing. For 27 of the 52 ranged items, the higher price is roughly 1.2001 to 1.2003 times the lower one, matching a delivery markup I verified separately on Kelsey's, a sister Recipe Unlimited brand, by comparing its in-restaurant and Uber Eats prices. The other 25 items don't fit that ratio and look more like real variation between the three cities this file covers. Montana's file doesn't label which number is which, so I can't confirm this item by item.

What is the cheapest item on the Montana's menu?

The cheapest items are the condiments, salsa, sour cream, side BBQ sauce, dipping sauce and salad dressing, each $0.83. The cheapest full dish is the Ooey Gooey grilled cheese on the kids menu at $6.99.

What is the most expensive item on the Montana's menu?

The Family BBQ combo tops the menu at $77.99 flat. The most expensive individually plated dish is the 12 oz Double Surf Your Turf at $64.79, a steak and lobster pairing.

Is there a Montana's menu PDF with prices?

Froqel maintains a printable version of this price list, covering all 15 categories and verified as of August 6, 2026, built from our own compiled data rather than anything Montana's publishes.

How much is the Montana's kids menu?

Kids items run from $6.99 for the Ooey Gooey grilled cheese up to $11.99 for the Kids burger or Kids pork back ribs. Five of six priced kids items carry a range, and all five match the delivery markup pattern, suggesting an app, not a different location.

Is Montana's part of the same company as Swiss Chalet and Harvey's?

Yes, Montana's is owned by Recipe Unlimited, the same Canadian company behind Swiss Chalet, Harvey's and Kelsey's. That ownership shows up in pricing too: the delivery markup I verified on Kelsey's matches the pattern on more than half of Montana's ranged items.

Methodology and disclaimer

Every price on this page comes from a single compiled file covering Montana's locations in Toronto, Kingston and Hamilton, Ontario, current as of August 6, 2026. Where the file gave a range, I kept it and calculated the gap myself; where a range matched the delivery multiplier verified separately on Kelsey's, I flagged it as likely delivery pricing rather than a confirmed label, since the file itself doesn't say. Where it said Varies, I left the item out rather than invent a figure. The average main figure is the mean of the priced Forks and knives entrees, using the midpoint of any range. All prices exclude tax; Ontario adds 13 percent HST.

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