Parmigiana in Baltimore

24 restaurants in Baltimore list parmigiana on their menus. The cheapest is Never on Sunday at $10.99, listed as CHICKEN PARM. The typical price across town is $16.00, and the dearest we found is $24.00 at Sobo Cafe, so the two ends of the list are $13.01 apart, which is 118% more for the same dish. Of the 24 kitchens listed, 8 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 5 sit within a dollar of it and 11 charge more than a dollar over.

We track parmigiana in 730 other areas and compare them all on parmigiana across United States. The typical price there runs $18.49 at the median, so Baltimore is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 570 of the 730. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.25 at Lione's Pizza in Downingtown, PA, and the highest best price is $24.95 in Mount Sinai, NY. The nearest area with it is Parkville, about 7 mi away, where the best price is $12.00.

Where is the cheapest parmigiana in Baltimore? Never on Sunday, at $10.99 on 829 North Charles Street. The same dish reaches $24.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $13.01.

What should parmigiana cost here? About $16.00 is the typical price across the 24 kitchens in Baltimore that list it. Of the ones listed above, 8 are more than a dollar below that and 11 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 $12.00. That is $1.01 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.