The Towne Center is the place to be on Friday evenings during the Summer months. There is a free concert each week highlighting a different genre of music. It is fun lively and businesses do not get bent out of shape if you sit on their furniture. It is family friendly fun. The Towne center also hosts a girls night out on Thursdays that is alot of fun. The restaurants in the Towne Center range from Carribean/Latin inspired Palladar to Gordon Biersch that has a brewery and great outdoor seating. There is a winery, Coopers Hawk, a Japanese steakhouse that has a fun hibachi room, a great Italian restaurant that hosts month wine tasting dinners, a PF Changs, and well known retailers such as Bed Bath and Beyond, Target, and Whole Foods. My favorite store is Bin 201 where you can attend wine tastings throughout the week, attend classes, and even join a wine tasting club that supports a local charity and is just for us ladies. We have a blast while learning a lot about wines. The wine selection is prety awsome and if they do not have it, they will do their best to get it for you. More about them in another review. There are unique clothing stores, a tea shop, a tailor, home design stores and other shops. You can park yourself but why when the Valet can do it for you. You will find also that luxury apartments nd condos are right along side the retail stores. Nothing like a little...
Read moreThis is a great example of the better mixed retail/residential town centers. Yes, it's completely manufactured. However, when you think about the fact that it replaced a run-down mall with just one or two stores still open, it was an excellent use of the land.
They have some great stores there, some really good restaurants, though like many shopping centers, there seems to be the mysterious restaurant space that cannot seem to keep a good restaurant open. Bonefish Grill was the latest to open and then close. Surprising that Annapolis has taken this step backward, and one has to travel to Odenton or Glen Burnie for Bonefish Grill. Odd. Gordon Biersch is great. Whole Foods, EMS, Bed Bath & Beyond, Target, and the fast casual places (Pei Wei, Zoe's, etc.) are a nice mix. I'm not a shopper, but there a lot of upscale clothing stores if you're into that. If you lived here, it seems like a good deal with a gym, a few banks, Whole Foods, restaurants, Target, etc.
For the rest of us, it's too bad that the complex is so isolated from Annapolis and even the other nearby shopping. Getting here by foot or by bike is not easy. Residents probably feel like they live on an island, since it requires a car to leave the...
Read moreThe Annapolis Town Center is the place to hang out! It’s like an outside mall, but better! It has a stage, an ice-skating rink in the winter. And it has quite a few popular stores and shopping centers to shop at, a Whole Foods grocery store, a Target, Williams-Sonoma for all your kitchen supplies, a Lifetime Gym, it replaced Twenty Four Hour Fitness and I think is a little better. And for dining out, some of the finest restaurants around. Steakhouses, Asian, restaurants, sushi, pizza joint, farm to table, and also a coffee house with fresh roasted coffee! Not only that, that during the summer they have live events, bands that play every other Friday. And during the winter they open up a skating rink where the theater is. There are some awesome restaurants, like True Food, Kitchen, Urbano, Jay Alexander’s, cooper’s Hawk, Neo Pizza, which by the way is probably my favorite pizza joint around. And Cava a Mediterranean style restaurant. I did a review on them, check it out! So if you’re in Annapolis Maryland and need a place to check out away from the city, stop by the Annapolis town center. There’s something for everyone at the whole family can enjoy. #shoppingcenter #diningout...
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