Garlic Bread in Baltimore

17 restaurants in Baltimore list garlic bread on their menus. The cheapest is Fortunato Brothers Pizza at $4.00. The typical price across town is $5.49, and the dearest we found is $8.99 at Piazza 27 Baltimore, so the two ends of the list are $4.99 apart, which is 125% more for the same dish. Of the 17 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 10 sit within a dollar of it and 5 charge more than a dollar over.

We track garlic bread in 315 other areas and compare them all on garlic bread across United States. The typical price there runs $6.25 at the median, so Baltimore is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 286 of the 315. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Numero Uno Pizza in San Fernando, CA, and the highest best price is $7.99 in Manchester, NH. The nearest area with it is Cockeysville, about 12 mi away, where the best price is $4.49.

Where is the cheapest garlic bread in Baltimore? Fortunato Brothers Pizza, at $4.00 on 6374 York Rd. The same dish reaches $8.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $4.99.

What should garlic bread cost here? About $5.49 is the typical price across the 17 kitchens in Baltimore that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 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 Cockeysville, about 12 mi away, where the best price is $4.49. That is $0.49 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.