BLT Sandwich in Baltimore

23 restaurants in Baltimore list BLT sandwich on their menus. The cheapest is Chicago Pizza & Grill at $4.99. The typical price across town is $8.00, and the dearest we found is $12.49 at Stoko's Carry Out, so the two ends of the list are $7.50 apart, which is 150% more for the same dish. Of the 23 kitchens listed, 6 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 11 sit within a dollar of it and 6 charge more than a dollar over.

We track BLT sandwich in 23 other areas and compare them all on BLT sandwich across United States. The typical price there runs $9.59 at the median, so Baltimore is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 16 of the 23. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $5.45 at Don Giovanni's II in Philadelphia, PA, and the highest best price is $11.90 in Saint Louis, MO. The nearest area with it is Parkville, about 7 mi away, where the best price is $6.99.

Where is the cheapest BLT sandwich in Baltimore? Chicago Pizza & Grill, at $4.99 on 2753 Edmondson Ave. The same dish reaches $12.49 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $7.50.

What should BLT sandwich cost here? About $8.00 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 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 $6.99. That is $2.00 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.