Warren Mapes details everything from McLarens and Porsches to minivans and SUVs and everything in between.
CITY STAFF
Best Lunch Spot: Magnoliaโs Deli & Cafe
Magnoliaโs menu includes a robust selection of sandwiches and salads, with some soups as well pizza.
Best Pet-related Business: Bones Dog Bakery
Bones owner Dani Fischer wants her bakery to be a place where people and their pups can spend time together and the focus is on the dogs.
Best Breakfast: The Original Steveโs Diner
A highlight of the fare at Original Steve’s is the variety of the dinerโs famous hubcap-sized pancakes.
Best Housewares Store: Mayer Paint and Hardware
Mayerโs is about 5,000 square feet of hardware, power tools, paint, snowblowers, grills, and just about anything else anyone might need to get the job done.
Best Photographer: Jim Montanus
Photography is in the blood of this perennial โBest of Rochesterโ winner, who is perhaps best known for his images of area landscapes.
Best Mural or Public Art: Murals at MLK Jr. Memorial Park
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Park is a year-round artistic backdrop with the vibrant Roc Paint Division murals
Best Record Store: Record Archive
The Record Archive was founded in 1975 by one of the cityโs unique characters, Richard Storms.
Best Food Truck: Le Petit Poutine
Known as founders of Rochesterโs food truck scene, Le Petit Poutine serves its classic Canadian combination of fries, gravy, and cheese curds with a sprinkling of thyme to thousands of hungry customers every year.
Best Trivia Night: ROAR
Thereโs a neon sign over the door at ROAR: โA DJ and a Drag Queen Walk Into a Bar.โ Itโs the premise for Rochesterโs reigning gay-owned nightclub, which scooped up six โBest of Rochesterโ awards.
Best Coffee: Ugly Duck Coffee
Ugly Duck began in 2015 as a pop-up espresso bar but has since grown into a popular brick-and-mortar coffee shop where you can get everything from an excellent cup of plain black coffee to The Snug.
Best Pick-up Basketball: Cobbs Hill Park
The Tony Boler Basketball Courts at Cobbs Hill Park draw some of the best street ballers in the city year-round.






