Cheese Fries in Baltimore

15 restaurants in Baltimore list cheese fries on their menus. The cheapest is Mount Everest Restaurant at $4.49. The typical price across town is $6.99, and the dearest we found is $9.31 at Vito's Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $4.82 apart, which is 107% more for the same dish. Of the 15 kitchens listed, 5 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 7 sit within a dollar of it and 3 charge more than a dollar over.

We track cheese fries in 139 other areas and compare them all on cheese fries across United States. The typical price there runs $7.95 at the median, so Baltimore is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 105 of the 139. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at street bites in Durham, NC, and the highest best price is $10.30 in Miami Beach, FL. The nearest area with it is Parkville, about 7 mi away, where the best price is $4.49.

Where is the cheapest cheese fries in Baltimore? Mount Everest Restaurant, at $4.49 on 4907 Frankford Ave. The same dish reaches $9.31 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $4.82.

What should cheese fries cost here? About $6.99 is the typical price across the 15 kitchens in Baltimore that list it. Of the ones listed above, 5 are more than a dollar below that and 3 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 Parkville, about 7 mi away, where the best price is $4.49. That is the same as 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.