Good first impression of "Charm City"

Came on Tuesday, 11pm-2am.

Vibe/Space: As someone who prefers low-key places, I LOVE the space. You take stairs to the second floor, and there you’ll find a LARGE square bar with a couple of elevated seating areas (meaning you a take a couple steps to get to them—tables and some chairs there). In addition to the square bar, there’s “bar-like” counters that extend from the walls with a bunch of bar stools all around. In other words, you can sit at the bar, or you can sit at the outer part with something to rest your drink either way. Lighting is typical dim/dark, but not so dark you can’t see anything. Perhaps my favorite thing, though, is the right loudness of music (all current hip hop/trap). Loud enough to create the right vibe, but not so loud that you can’t converse with the bartender or dancers (unless you’re in that one corner where the speaker is). This space is great for those who come by themselves and like to lay low. Honestly, I wish every club was set up like this. I should note that there did not seem to be any VIP space. I’m used to Atlanta (Wax, Pinups, Blaze mainly), and I would compare the customer/dancer interaction similar to that city.

As far as the neighborhood, it’s “The Block” in Baltimore—Google it. I can’t speak to parking since I walked from my hotel, but I do recommend keeping your wits about you in the area. There’s a bulk of urban-styled strip clubs here (plus one or two regular ones). My rule of thumb is to leave the club 20 minutes before closing (for Baltimore, that means 1:40am). If you leave at 2am, you’ll be out on the street with every other riled up, young male club-goer, and beef inside the club tends to spill out at 2am. Just speaking from several years’ experience.