Western Fries in Baltimore

24 restaurants in Baltimore list western fries on their menus. The cheapest is Massey's Pizza at $4.25. The typical price across town is $6.00, and the dearest we found is $8.99 at Silver Moon 1, so the two ends of the list are $4.74 apart, which is 112% more for the same dish. Of the 24 kitchens listed, 6 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 14 sit within a dollar of it and 4 charge more than a dollar over.

We track western fries in 5 other areas and compare them all on western fries across United States. The typical price there runs $6.99 at the median, so Baltimore is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 4 of the 5. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.49 at Stoko's in Towson, MD, and the highest best price is $5.99 in Reisterstown, MD. The nearest area with it is Towson, about 7 mi away, where the best price is $4.49.

Where is the cheapest western fries in Baltimore? Massey's Pizza, at $4.25 on 308 N Eutaw St. The same dish reaches $8.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $4.74.

What should western fries cost here? About $6.00 is the typical price across the 24 kitchens in Baltimore that list it. Of the ones listed above, 6 are more than a dollar below that and 4 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 Towson, about 7 mi away, where the best price is $4.49. That is $0.24 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.