This rating scale is not high enough! Paris West Optical should rate an 11.... they are awesome. Just great top notch stuff, no filler material. Excellent frames, excellent service.

Even with a very steep prescription (-11 both eyes), Jordan got my glasses looking killer.

It you have trouble choosing frames that are right for your face? Jordan (the owner) is the man you want. His sense of style and matching it to your face is very very well honed.

The staff is excellent as well! Thanks you guys!

I NEVER regret the money I spend here.

Outstanding customer service. I bought my glasses here about 6-7 years ago and will continue to work with this business as long as I need corrective lenses. From my experience they sincerely care about the customer and try to find the best solution for you. When I think about my interactions with them, the term serendipity comes to mind, but I'm not sure it has anything to do with luck, I think they are just that good.

A true Baltimore gem. While most eye glass shops might have 2,000 frames for you to choose from, Paris West has between 5,000 and 6,000 frames at any given moment. The staff is friendly and knowledgeable. The owner Jordan is an eyeglass frames nut who buys frames that he thinks people will want to wear and ignores conventional wisdom about eyeglass inventory at retail opticians.

It's the kind of place where you can walk in and say, "I want the frames that Mos Def wore on this season of Dexter" like I recently did and they have them on the shelf. My daughter who lives in NYC searched Manhattan for 6 months looking for frames there and found the perfect pair at Paris West in 15 minutes during a recent visit.

From traditional frames to the futuristic to the tragically hip, Paris West has the frames you were looking for and the frames that you didn't even know you needed. (They just sold me a pair of mat black sunglasses that I did not know I had to have.) The staff is there to kibitz with you regarding your purchases. There's Jordan the owner with the Jewish perspective; a nice black guy for your urban perspective and a cute young hipster chic with Betty Page bangs and cat eye glasses for the post modernist view. You can have a lot of fun shopping here with these guys. They'll definitely help you navigate the enormous selection available. You'll leave with a great looking pair of glasses that will make a statement and fit your face.

This is not the cheapest place to buy glasses, but you're paying for quality and the unsurpassed selection. Highly recommended.

This is without doubt the best eyewear shop in Baltimore! There is a broad selection of eyewear to suit every face, complexion, and taste and its continually updated with the most interesting international styles. Equally important though is owner Jordan Flitter and his staffs' expertise and dedication to customer service. Over the many years I've been a customer, they have done everything possible to ensure that my prescriptions were correct, my fit both comfortable and precise, and my selection appropriate to my face and my lifestyle. As someone who tends to regularly stretch and distort the temples on my glasses, I've come to rely on the fact that I can stop in and have the make expert adjustments while I wait. If you are looking for the hippest eyewear coupled with the highest level of service and professionalism in Baltimore, Paris West is the place!