Best Pizza Mark’s Pizzeria. Many area locations. markspizzeria.com Runners up: The Pizza Stop | Pontillo’s | Salvatore’s Best Burger Bill Gray’s. Many area locations. billgrays.com Runners up: The Gate House | Restaurant Good Luck | Swillburger Best Barbecue Dinosaur Bar-B-Que. 99 Court Street, 325-7090, dinosaurbarbque.com Runners up: Good Smoke | Sticky Lips | Texas Bar-B-Q […]
Best of Rochester 2016
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Best Goods & Services 2016
Best New Retail Store The Hub by Archimage. 701 Monroe Avenue, 270-4199, thehubroc.com Runners up: Just Games | Second Chic | Trilogy Fashion Foundry Best Bike Shop Park Ave Bike Shop. 2900 Monroe Avenue, 381-3080; 600 Jay Scutti Boulevard, Henrietta, 427-2110; parkavebike.com Runners up: Full Moon Vista | Towners Bike Shop | Towpath Bike Shop […]
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Best Local Color 2016
Best Group or Person Improving the Community WALL\THERAPY. @walltherapyny; wall-therapy.com Runners up: B.L.A.C.K. | Junior League of Rochester | Shawn Dunwoody Best Local Eyesore Medley Centre. 285 Medley Centre Parkway, Irondequoit. Runners up: Abandoned Subway | Downtown Rochester | Inner Loop Best Place to Take an Out-of-Towner Wegmans. Many area locations. wegmans.com Runners up: Genesee […]
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Best Arts & Entertainment 2016
Best Local Original Band Teagan and The Tweeds. @teaganandtweeds; teaganandthetweeds.com Runners up: Joywave | KOPPS | Machine Gun English Best Local Solo Musician Paul Strowe. paulstrowe.com Runners up: Jackson Cavalier | Cammy Enaharo | Roger Kuhn Best Local Album of 2016 “Head Honcho” by Harmonica Lewinski. harmonicalewinski.bandcamp.com Runners up: “The Devil’s Undertow” by Jackson Cavalier […]
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Best Nightlife 2016
Best New Bar/Club Three Heads Brewing. 186 Atlantic Avenue, 244-1224, threeheadsbrewing.com Runners up: Nosh | The Playhouse | Stout Best Bar for Beer Tap & Mallet. 381 Gregory Street, 473-0503, tapandmallet.com Runners up: The Beer Market | MacGregors’ Grill & Tap Room | Victoire Best Bar for Wine Flight Wine Bar. 262 Exchange Boulevard, 360-4180; […]
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Best Answers 2016
Off-the-cuff, sometimes off-color responses to our Best Of Rochester 2016 Primary Ballot
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Los Campeones!
Over the last two months, CITY Newspaper’s Best of Rochester readers’ poll has asked for your opinion: What are the best people, places, and things in Rochester? We set the poll at 100 categories — down from almost 140 in previous years — and let you make the call. More than 12,000 people took this year’s final readers’ poll.
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Critics’ picks 2016
Best pathetic PokeStop “Pillars and Archway over Garbage Can” For a good month or two, the sidewalks in some Rochester neighborhoods were filled with people staring at their phones, trying to catch Jigglypuffs and Evees and Snorlaxes. I admit, without any shame, that I was one of the many who got sucked into Pokémon GO. […]
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VOTE NOW: Best of Rochester 2016 Final Ballot
The Best of Rochester 2016 final ballot is now closed! Look for the results in print and online Wednesday, October 26.
