The Avenue At White Marsh

Beautiful and busy place. Has some good stores, location is convenient, and the place looks clean. Has restaurants, a book store, and a movie theater. One could easily spend an entire day here just exploring these places while enjoying oneself. Parking is definitely hard to find closer to the stores but there are big front and back parking lots. The water fountains in the middle and the duck swimming in them are a refreshing addition to the avenue.

Cool stores. Restaurant options could be better, in my opinion. The parking is always at a premium. You’re lucky if you get a spot in front of a store.

The Avenue At White Marsh is a step up from what it use to be. I remember as a child going to the mall and it over time becoming outdated. The Avenue must be about 10 years old and it has developed nicely with a slew of shops, movie theater, and restaurants. I dig the outdoors so shopping while being outside is a perk, I think it gives a better meaning to the term «window shopping». I mean really windows/​store fronts inside a building just lacks the full appeal of the term.
The Avenue is clean and has ample parking. I like that there are benches to sit outside and flowers to spruce the outside area up. I noticed the last time I was there that they play music on the speaker systems near the larger restaurants, which adds to the outdoor shopping experience. This is a great place to go on a date you can grab dinner and a movie in one trip while taking a nice stroll past all the shops. The designers knew what they were doing in creating this atmosphere.

I’m from Baltimore who moved to New Jersey more than ten years ago and believe or not this was my first time here. Nice outdoor shopping mall, great place to catch a movie and decent restaurants (and bar) around.

Decent outdoor shopping place with several chain restaurants, a movie theater, ice cream shop, and stores (book, game, makeup, craft, etc). Several things to do. Also during the summer they host a farmer’s market on Fridays.

I like the whole outdoor shopping mall thing. And I’ll usually stop here along my trip from DC to Philly. It has a close location to 95 but the only drawback is the horrible traffic in this area. Sometimes I think it’s just as bad as the DC beltway at 8:30am.
Great variety of stores, usually ample parking, lots of restaurants (is the hot dog place still open?) I can’t say I’d want to come back during Black Friday though

I like this place, but I’m just a big fan of outdoor shopping areas in general.
It has restaurants, shops, and a movie theater. The movie theater at The Avenue is decent, no Harbor East, but decent. The shops are chains. It’s nice to go to the movies and pick up drinks after, or do the dinner and a movie date.
I am… movie theater, restaurants with bars, and an ice cream shop? It may be a juvenile hangout, but sometimes it is good to act like a kid.

a RANDOM pit stop on my way back to NYC, yet a great discovery. Plenty of great food options, shopping spots, movie theater, and of course a place to mingle and hang out!!!
The locale is not only beautiful but has a great atmosphere and def. beckons me to visit again!!!

great place to walk around on a nice day out! it has a nice variety of shops to browse and restaurants. i like to venture out here on my days off to grab some coffee and then walk around the stores.
on friday nights and weekends though — every single restaurant has an extremely long wait, the parking lot is crowded, and you’re walking shoulder to shoulder on the sidewalks. your crowd ranges from tweens decked out in their super short mini skirts and stilettos to families with children.
they hold events and concerts so people can just hang out.

Yay!
I love outdoor shopping areas. It’s a quaint little area that looks newly constructed and has a family-​friendly feel. There aren’t too many places that I’d want to actually buy things, but I enjoy grabbing Starbucks and walking around here just to window shop.

This is a pleasant addition to the White Marsh Mall, right across the street. The Avenue is two-​city-​block-​long ‘Main Street’-type area of shops and restaurants not found in the mall. It’s mostly made up of larger or newer places and includes a Loew’s movie theater. Parking can be a bit difficult at high periods — unless you walk from the plentiful parking at the mall across the four-​lane road — but it’s otherwise a nice outdoor shopping and dining area.

So Mr. Landlord the malls of the 80s are dead and we built new malls in the 90s that were multi-​story and much better with higher draws in the anchor stores category. The Strip malls and waaaay out of date and we are looking for something new. Behold: The Avenue at White Marsh.
«The Good»
— Before I forget, just go at Christmas, or in December for those that do not celebrate. Its just plain cool. The lights are up the snow is cleared from the walking paths the fountain becomes a tree holder and its a decent way to just walk down an old Main Street when there is not an old Main Street in the area.
— They have some decent bars including Red Brick and The Kilt (see separate reviews) and some date spots like Della Rose’s and Kobe Steakhouse.
— A movie theater where you can see some great flicks in a decent setting with comfortable seats that have a great sound system.
— Omaha Steaks — If you love somebody… If you love someone, send them steaks [send send, send them steaks] This place always has specials that should be taken complete advantage of and appreciated.
— Barnes and Noble for the coffee drinking book reading among us.
— Facebook page, yeah they have one… use it to see what special events are coming up.
— Some serious «serious» — A Farmers Market in the summer months. This is not just for yuppies anymore… Go get some local food and support (small) local farms by enjoying some homegrown veggies, fruits and flowers and some breads and honey among other cool items.
— I know its Cold Stone, and they have Lt. Dan Ice Cream, but I cannot help but give Good ‘Old JR his due by always calling it, Stone Cold, Stone Cold, Stone Cold… Google it, or go to You Tube, its stupid funny :)
«The Meh»
— The parking can get bad. Ahhh forget it, I’ll save it for below.
— Random entrances can be confusing for the first time visitor… The front of the Avenue is really the rear end of the stores, so it can be kinda confusing. Just keep walking until you find a break in between the stores and head up you will be fine.
«The Bad»
— The parking can get really bad. In the winter, during holidays, or busy shopping seasons, the place fills to where they use overflow in the back and actually park on the street. So if you do park there please be careful, you always hear brakes screeching which is not a good thought for the pedestrians crossing the street.

This is a nice spot to hang out on a nice day. There’s a little bit of everything; shopping, eating, and the movies. Parking is ample, but can still be a pain in the butt on a Friday or Saturday night.

I love going to the Avenue on a nice day/​night. It is definitely better than walking around inside a crowded mall! There are a few nice restaurants and I love that some of them have outside seating. I love Red Brick Station.
The downsides to the Avenue would be that there really aren’t that many stores. And the movie theater brings out lots of teens. If you go here in the winter, it is not fun at all because you have to walk around outside to get to each store…
But go in nice weather, sit outside to eat, and you’ll have a great time!

We love coming here for the summer concert series. Grab something to eat at one of the restaurants and enjoy the music. Red Brick put in a beer garden this year which is a great touch.

It has movies, shops and good places to eat! I wouldn’t say all the shops are the best in the world but when the weather is perfect it is a good place to go!

My family loves The Avenue. My kids love throwing all of my coins in the fountain and all of my bills in the guitar player’s case.
There’s a ton of restaurants with just about any cuisine you can think of. There’s cajun, mexican, italian, japanese steak house, good olé american, a microbrew, a barnes and noble, two starbucks, multiplex, and various retail stores. You can really spend a whole day on the one «street». Make sure you stop at the New Balance store for good walking shoes.

Back during my college days, going to The Avenue at White Marsh was the hotness. It was the pinnacle of suburban coolness. You got your shops, you got your restaurants, you got your multiplex, you got your ice creamery. You got your hotness, that’s what you got.
We used to go here all the time to see movies since the theater in Towson was kinda gross and overcrowded. The Avenue has one of those huge fancy Loews theaters with televisions in the lobby that play movie trailers and music videos, so you can watch some free entertainment before your paid entertainment. We’d also bide our time in the Barnes & Noble or Old Navy. If the weather was nice, we’d take a stroll along the quaint little Main Street or just sit outside on the fountain and people-​watch.
And yes, there were always plenty of people to watch. Mostly teenagers and other college students. We didn’t really want to be associated with the teens since they were loud and obnoxious, but then again, we may have been too (although I sincerely doubt it — we were cool, dammit!)
As shopping centers go, The Avenue is pretty nice. Not just your typical, boring strip mall but a completely manufactured and highly glossed up version of suburban Americana. Yeah, that’s the hotness right there!