# Food & Dining search demand in Baltimore THE SEARCH LEDGER · BALTIMORE, MARYLAND · FOOD & DINING Every month Baltimore types 1,547,050 food & dining searches into Google. This is the public record of what those searches are, what they cost, and who currently answers them. BY [SEO BANDWAGON](https://seobandwagon.com/about) · UPDATED WEEKLY · COLLECTED SEP 8, 2026 · [HOW THIS PAGE IS MADE](https://seobandwagon.com/local-seo/baltimore/food-dining#colophon) 653 KEYWORDS TRACKED Source: [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Baltimore metro, Sep 8, 2026 1,547,050 SEARCHES / MONTH Source: [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Baltimore metro, Sep 8, 2026 $1.1M MONTHLY AD VALUE Source: volume × CPC, computed $1.24 AVERAGE CPC Source: [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Baltimore metro, Sep 8, 2026 ## When Baltimore searches for food & dining Relative search interest by month, indexed 0–100. The pink outline marks the peak. Interest runs highest in JUL and lowest in JAN. Search interest by month, indexed 0 to 100: January 66, February 66, March 77, April 75, May 90, June 87, July 100, August 90, September 77, October 79, November 76, December 75. Source: [Google Trends](https://trends.google.com/) relative interest for the Food & Dining category in Baltimore — a 0–100 index, not a search count. One curve per category is the granularity available; it is not split per keyword. ## What Baltimore pays per click for food & dining The 20 highest-volume of 653 tracked keywords, priced at what advertisers actually bid. The dearest click here is **“yama sushi baltimore”** at $2.20. | # | KEYWORD | VOL/MO | CPC | DIFFICULTY | INTENT | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | restaurants near me | 823,000 | $0.56 | 7 | transactional | | 2 | breakfast near me | 110,000 | $0.69 | 23 | transactional | | 3 | pizza near me | 90,500 | $1.28 | 12 | transactional | | 4 | coffee shops near me | 74,000 | $0.49 | 0 | transactional | | 5 | bars near me | 60,500 | $0.46 | 0 | transactional | | 6 | baltimore restaurants | 22,200 | $1.03 | 5 | commercial | | 7 | g&m restaurant in linthicum maryland | 18,100 | $1.17 | | commercial | | 8 | best restaurants baltimore | 12,100 | $0.95 | 28 | commercial | | 9 | jimmys seafood baltimore | 12,100 | $0.45 | 11 | commercial | | 10 | angie's seafood baltimore | 12,100 | $0.66 | 0 | commercial | | 11 | baltimore brunch | 8,100 | $0.56 | 1 | commercial | | 12 | baltimore seafood | 8,100 | $0.78 | 29 | commercial | | 13 | golden west cafe baltimore | 8,100 | $0.97 | 1 | commercial | | 14 | loch bar baltimore md | 8,100 | $0.35 | 10 | commercial | | 15 | owl bar baltimore | 6,600 | $0.22 | 0 | commercial | | 16 | hampden md restaurants | 6,600 | $0.52 | 5 | commercial | | 17 | inner harbor restaurants | 5,400 | $1.13 | 24 | commercial | | 18 | restaurant week baltimore | 5,400 | $0.11 | 11 | commercial | | 19 | fells point restaurants | 5,400 | $0.81 | 16 | commercial | | 20 | yama sushi baltimore | 5,400 | $2.20 | 0 | commercial | Source: [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Baltimore metro, Sep 8, 2026. Volume and CPC are [Google Ads](https://ads.google.com/home/tools/keyword-planner/) twelve-month averages, so neither moves week to week. Difficulty is DataForSEO’s 0–100 score; blank where it has not been scored. ## Who owns the Baltimore food & dining results Live position tracking for 2 of the tracked keywords in this vertical — who Google puts in the [map pack](https://seobandwagon.com/seo-glossary#local-pack), and who holds page one. restaurants near me 823,000/mo · $0.56 CPC · difficulty 7 MAP PACK - 1 America'S Best Wings & Soul Food 3.7★ 176 - 2 Crazy John's 4★ 679 - 3 Krispy Krunchy Chicken 4★ 121 ORGANIC TOP 5 - 1 baltimore.org - 2 ubereats.com LOCAL - 3 yelp.com - 4 dc.eater.com - 5 opentable.com pizza near me 90,500/mo · $1.28 CPC · difficulty 12 MAP PACK - 1 Brother's Pizza 2.7★ 264 - 2 Marko’s Pizza. Sub.Wings and more 3.3★ 340 - 3 AFG Pizza, sub & Wings 4.2★ 6 ORGANIC TOP 5 - 1 locations.papajohns.com LOCAL - 2 yelp.com - 3 matthewspizza.com LOCAL - 4 baltimoremagazine.com - 5 pizza.dominos.com Source: [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Baltimore metro, Sep 8, 2026. LOCAL marks an organic domain that matches a business tracked in this metro; an unmarked domain is simply not one of them, which includes directories and firms we do not track. ## The food & dining businesses competing in Baltimore The 12 most-reviewed businesses we track in this vertical, with the profile signals that put them where they are. | RANK | BUSINESS | RATING | REVIEWS | CATEGORY | WEBSITE | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | #1 | Fogo de Chão Brazilian Steakhouse | 4.7 ★ | 16,093 | Brazilian | YES | | #2 | Miss Shirley's Cafe, Inner Harbor | 4.5 ★ | 7,188 | American | YES | | #3 | Rusty Scupper Restaurant & Bar | 4.5 ★ | 5,972 | Seafood | YES | | #4 | Hard Rock Cafe | 4.3 ★ | 5,568 | Restaurant | YES | | #5 | Shake Shack Inner Harbor | 4.2 ★ | 4,401 | Hamburger | YES | | #6 | Pratt Street Ale House | 4.1 ★ | 3,203 | Brewpub | YES | | #7 | Frank's Pizza & Pasta | 4.6 ★ | 2,955 | Pizza | YES | | #8 | Chick-fil-A | 4.4 ★ | 2,810 | Fast Food | YES | | #9 | Angeli’s Pizzeria & Bar | 4.7 ★ | 2,381 | Pizza | YES | | #10 | Papi Cuisine | 4.1 ★ | 2,358 | Restaurant | YES | | #11 | IHOP | 3.3 ★ | 2,294 | Breakfast | YES | | #12 | Pie in the Sky | 4.7 ★ | 2,281 | Pizza | YES | Source: [Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps) listings, [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Baltimore metro, Sep 8, 2026. Ranked by review count, which is a proxy for how established a listing is — not a ranking claim. ## Food & Dining brands Baltimore searches by name Branded demand is the clearest read on who has built recall here — searches for a business by name, the volume nobody has to bid for. kona grill baltimore md 5,400/mo bistro 300 baltimore 1,600/mo pete's grill baltimore 1,600/mo grill 620 ellicott city 590/mo smashburger baltimore 590/mo jay's deli baltimore 210/mo french bistro baltimore 140/mo bonefish grill baltimore 140/mo Source: [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Baltimore metro, Sep 8, 2026. Brand searches identified from the tracked keyword set. ## What Baltimore asks about food & dining People Also Ask questions collected verbatim from Baltimore food & dining results — the literal wording Google is already surfacing. What are some must-try restaurants in Baltimore? What restaurants in Baltimore have the best views? Where can I find the best takeout in Baltimore? What is the best restaurant in Maryland? What is the 2 hour rule for pizza? Where can I find a good pizza place near me in Baltimore, MD? Who has the best pizza deals out right now? Who has the best pizza in Mechanicsville, VA? Source: Google People Also Ask, [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Baltimore metro, Sep 8, 2026. Questions are reproduced as collected; we do not answer them here. ## Rank for these searches Everything above is the market. If you want to be in it, start with where you stand today. [SCAN YOUR SITE FREE](https://seobandwagon.com/#scan) [Restaurant SEO](https://seobandwagon.com/restaurant-seo) ## More Baltimore search data Every other vertical we track in this metro, with its monthly search demand. 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Keyword volume and cost-per-click come from Google Ads via DataForSEO and are twelve-month averages, so neither moves week to week — a weekly delta on either would measure the averaging window, not the market. Map-pack and organic positions are a live SERP read taken Sep 8, 2026. Sections with no data are omitted rather than filled. Baltimore, Maryland · Food & Dining · 653 keywords · collected Sep 8, 2026 Collected and published by [SEO Bandwagon](https://seobandwagon.com/about), tracking [local search](https://seobandwagon.com/seo-glossary#local-search) since 2010. These 653 food & dining keywords come from the same weekly sweep as [Google Business Profile Benchmarks](https://seobandwagon.com/research/gbp-benchmarks), whose method and verification are published in full. 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