The Power Plant

I might be one of the very few people that actually liked Power Plant.
Maybe it is because they have three of my favorite places there, maybe it is because you can drink outside of the bars and I can imagine it being amazing in the summer, or maybe it is convenience of having a group on bars in this little area, the ocean just ahead of it, a street strip of titty bars right behind it, and plenty of parking garages right next to it. I don’t know.
I found a few great things about this place… They had Howl at the moon there, Angels rock bar and a leinenkugel beer garden.
Here is how it worked the night I was there…
Once you decide on where to park, you get to power plant. You go in and you pay a cover to get into the little area. That night, cover was $ 10. So you pay $ 10 each and then they give you an entrance coupon or ticket. Every bar inside of powerplant, also has a cover of $ 10 or so. Your entrance into powerplant gets you a free entrance into one bar. So power plant is the outside area in between all the bars. Then you get ot pick one bar to go into for free. Leinie’s beer garden was free though. So you really get two bars free if you look at it that way.
It was cold that night so not much was going on outside. We decided to head straight for howl at the moon and we ended up staying there all night.
I just like the concept of power plant but I can see how people are easily turned off by the multiple covers if you decide to do more than leini’s and another.
Oh yeah and they take credit cards to get in too. I was happy to see that.

They had a wonderful light show that I watched at 7:00 pm. I thought that it would be longer but, it was only 7 minutes ending in fireworks. Not too crowded. I enjoyed it though.

I agree with Ramon. The Power Plant (named for the old Power Plant building which is where it resides) is a com[plex of mall-​stores, eateries and a HUGE ESPN ZONE that my little brother used to manage way back when.
They used to have alot of night life here in the ’90’s — not sure about it nowadays.

Typical touristy, run-​of-​the-​mill mall smack dab in the middle of Baltimore (this joint actually was a former power plant. What an inventive name.) with a bunch of chain restaurants and a huge-​ass Barnes & Noble inside. As a red-​blooded young man though whose life is slightly enhanced somewhat by the presence of American professional sports, the ESPN Zone within it redeems this mall from obscurity, and so does the money view of the Inner Harbor from it.