Baked Ziti in Baltimore

17 restaurants in Baltimore list baked ziti on their menus. The cheapest is Pizza Bravo Plus at $6.99. The typical price across town is $14.49, and the dearest we found is $18.99 at Silver Moon 1, so the two ends of the list are $12.00 apart, which is 172% more for the same dish. Of the 17 kitchens listed, 8 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 3 sit within a dollar of it and 6 charge more than a dollar over.

We track baked ziti in 460 other areas and compare them all on baked ziti across United States. The typical price there runs $15.99 at the median, so Baltimore is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 366 of the 460. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $5.10 at Pavone's Pizza in Syracuse, NY, and the highest best price is $21.00 in Stoneham, MA. The nearest area with it is Parkville, about 7 mi away, where the best price is $10.99.

Where is the cheapest baked ziti in Baltimore? Pizza Bravo Plus, at $6.99 on 5440 Harford Road. The same dish reaches $18.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $12.00.

What should baked ziti cost here? About $14.49 is the typical price across the 17 kitchens in Baltimore that list it. Of the ones listed above, 8 are more than a dollar below that and 6 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 $10.99. That is $4.00 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.