Onion Rings in Baltimore

23 restaurants in Baltimore list onion rings on their menus. The cheapest is Mt. Washington Pizza & Subs & Indian Cuisine at $4.25. The typical price across town is $6.60, and the dearest we found is $9.99 at Seasons Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $5.74 apart, which is 135% more for the same dish. Of the 23 kitchens listed, 6 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 12 sit within a dollar of it and 5 charge more than a dollar over.

We track onion rings in 500 other areas and compare them all on onion rings 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 422 of the 500. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Lucky's Burger and Brews in Marietta, GA, and the highest best price is $11.00 in Bellevue, WA. The nearest area with it is Rosedale, about 6 mi away, where the best price is $4.99.

Where is the cheapest onion rings in Baltimore? Mt. Washington Pizza & Subs & Indian Cuisine, at $4.25 on 1620 Kelly Avenue. The same dish reaches $9.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $5.74.

What should onion rings cost here? About $6.60 is the typical price across the 23 kitchens in Baltimore that list it. Of the ones listed above, 6 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 Rosedale, about 6 mi away, where the best price is $4.99. That is $0.74 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.