Best gardening store
North Haven Gardens
Danny Fulgencio
Whether you're scouring for the best bougainvillea or bulbs, this store offers the highest quality. The regulars who go to this place know it's addictive. The staff is extremely well informed. The plants are gorgeous, thriving, and well kept. The prices are, unfortunately, steep, but, for a good fix, it's worth it.
- 7700 Northaven Rd., Dallas, 75230 Map
- 214-363-5316
- www.nhg.com
Best clothes for Plano moms
Harold's
Grab your Kate Spade and follow us to Harold's, which is updating its styles and colors to the latest fashion trends. The store even totes "vacation from panty hose" as its advertising slogan. Fall's bold prints, (faux) fur-trimmed vests, and beaded Capri pants have given Harold's a fresh, younger look. Check the sale racks for last season's bargains, or even better, visit the Harold's Outlet at the Hillsboro Factory Outlets. No one will know you got it half-price.
Best Of Dallas®
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Arts & Entertainment
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Best Dallas moment
Holding a parade to celebrate the opening of Central Expressway
-
Best District Judge
Judge Merrill Hartman, 192nd District Court
-
Best Actor
Derik Webb, Bless Cricket, Crest Toothpast, and Tommy Tune at the Dallas Children's Theatre
-
Best play with a local setting that you may never see in Dallas
Killer Joe by Tracy Letts
-
Best Intellectual Resource That Needs your support
The Dallas Public Library
-
Best sign that hell has frozen over
The Toadies' second album is finished
-
Best Reason Only Johnny Cash Should Be Allowed to Sing Johnny Cash Songs
Colin Boyd
-
Best open-mike poetry
Sankofa Arts Cafe
-
Best closet-sized art gallery
Annex Gallery
-
Best movie theater
Cinemark 17
-
Best Radio talk show
Glenn Mitchell, weekdays at noon on KERA-FM 90.1
-
Best Actress
Beverly May, Mrs. Klein
-
Best Campaign Line
Councilman James Fantroy
-
Best art museum
Dallas Museum of Art
-
Best Place to Introduce Children to Theater
Le Theatre de Marionette
-
Best Impromptu Performance by an actor
Bruce DuBose displays his, um, artistic temperament
-
Best Place to Attend a non-stuffy book-signing
Dick's Last Resort
-
Best Road Trip for Bookworms
Recycled Books & Records
-
Best evidence that the local music scene is better than Austin's (Despite what Texas Monthly says)
-
Best half-assed attempt to support local music
D's special local music issue in April
-
Best Dallas chanteuse
Drenda Barnett
-
Best African-American art gallery
Beaujour Galerie Des Beaux Arts
-
Best children's art school
J's Art Studio
-
Best visual artist
Nic Nicosia
-
Best place to find arcane videos
Forbidden Books
-
Best Radio DJ
Barry Switzer, "Football All the Way," Thursday at 6 p.m., KTCK-AM 1310
-
Best comeback for a venue
Hard Rock Café
-
Best gadfly Web Site
Sharon Boyd's "It's a Bad Deal," www.dallasarena.com
-
Best Local TV News Show
Weeknight broadcasts on KTVT-TV Channel 11
-
Best Reason for An Appointed Judiciary
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
-
Best Director
Preston Lane
-
Best Band Comeback
Union Camp
-
Best neighborhood
Little Forest Hills
-
Best proof that Texas Monthly might be right
-
Best threat to Sam Paulos' empire
ACME CD Manufacturing Co.,
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Best threat to Sam Paulos' empire (Part II)
Last Beat music complex
-
Best place to see a living legend
Al Dupree at The Balcony Club
-
Best place to read a newspaper
Coffee Haus
-
Best Public Sculpture
Pegasus, Farmers Market
-
Best elementary school
Stonewall Jackson Elementary
-
Best art gallery
You gotta be kidding
-
Best place to walk on water
Leonhardt Lagoon
-
Best newspaper columnist
Timothy O'Leary, The Dallas Morning News
-
Best TV Journalist
Brett Shipp on WFAA Channel 8
-
Best city council member
James Fantroy
-
Best Political Gaffe
City council members wade into deep doo-doo
-
Best Theater Classes for Kids
Richardson Centre Theatre's Family Theatre
-
Best Production, Best Director
Inexpressible Island, Dallas Theatre Center; Preston Lane, Director
-
Best Improv Comedy Troupe
Section 8
-
Best local music fans
The Chomsky Army
-
Best Band Name (Once You Know What It Means)
The Lucky Pierres
-
Best Dallas businessman
Lou Reese
-
Best Online PR Stunt
dotcomguy
-
Best new museum
The Women's Museum
-
Best IMAX theater (tie)
Cinemark 17 & The Science Place
-
Best radio station
Magic 102.1-FM "Jammin' Oldies"
-
Best theater company
Wingspan Theatre
-
Best Gadfly/Activist
Anne Carlson, Dallas County chair, Common Cause Texas
-
Best place for foreign and indie films (tie)
Inwood Theatre & United Artists Cine
-
Best TV News Anchor
Gloria Campos, WFAA Channel 8
-
Best place to beat the heat
Hurricane Harbor
-
Best jazz club
Sambuca
-
Best rock bar
The Rock,
-
Best place to kick it with bikers
The Blue Goose
-
Best urban street-side patio dining
Thai Soon
-
Best Place to Jog
White Rock Lake
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Best honky tonk
Country 2000
-
Best Bowling Alley
AMF Richardson Lanes
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Best bar name
The now-defunct Beer Goggles in Deep Ellum
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Best piano bar
After Dark
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Best place to throw a bridal shower
S&S Tea Room
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Best name for an auto dealer
Topless Motors
-
Best scenic drive
Van Zandt County
-
Best place to go on a day trip (tie)
Fossil Rim Wildlife Center & Mt. Carmel Center
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Best place for a piñata party
Under the gnarly live oak trees at Tietze Park, on Skillman Streets in East Dallas, bounded by Llano and Vanderbilt streets
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Best place to race illegally
Intersections of Parker and Independence, Coit and Park, Plano
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Best blues club
Blue Cat Blues
-
Best Tejano club
Tejano West
-
Best place to feel at one with Deep Ellum
Boyd Gallery
-
Best family outing on a summer weekday
The Dallas Arboretum
-
Best beer joint
The Ginger Man
-
Best way to get to the zoo
DART Rail, (214) 979-1111
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Best place to go on monday nights
The Cavern
-
Best place to drink icy cold beer during the day
Ship's Lounge
-
Best revolving sign
Raven's Prescription Pharmacy
-
Best place to forget you're in Oak Cliff
Kessler Park
-
Best rainy-day activity with the kids
Bass Pro Shops Outdoor World
-
Best outing with the kids
Dallas Museum of Art
-
Best morning stroll
White Rock Lake from the spillway at Garland Road and White Rock Drive or from the old boat house at West Lawther Drive near Williamson and White Rock roads
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Best place to watch amateur inline hockey
Slapshots Inline Arena
-
Best alternative club
Trees
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Best bar for smokers
Lakewood Landing
-
Best place to meet computer geeks
Main Street Internet
-
Best place for a kid's party
Dallas Puppet Theater
-
Best place to (pseudo) rave
One
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Best place to save the world during the spin cycle
Bar of Soap
-
Best billiards
Cuckoo's Nest
-
Best live music venue
Gypsy Tea Room
-
Best tragic place to invite more tragedy
Dealey Plaza
-
Best place to read poetry
Restland Funeral Home
-
Best playground
Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children
-
Best evening stroll
Swiss Avenue
-
Best place to watch softball games
Softball World
-
Best Irish bar
The Dubliner
-
Best dance club
Lizard Lounge
-
Best gay bar
The Crew's Inn
-
Best place to commune with nature
White Rock Lake
-
Best place to annoy pedestrians in Deep Ellum
The valet stand at the Green Room
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Best Place to Roller Skate
White Rock Skate
-
Best lesbian bar
Buddies II
-
Best frat scene
The Beagle
-
Best way to curb your anger
Target Master Indoor Shooting Center and Gun Store
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Best place for downtown yuppies to take their kids
America's Ice Garden Ice Rink
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Best place for a romantic rendezvous
Hotel St. Germain
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Food & Drink
-
Best New Restaurant
Voltaire
-
Best lesbian drink
The Redheaded Slut at Sue Ellen's
-
Best quail
Il Solé Restaurant & Wine Bar
-
Best Jack and Coke
Bar of Soap Bar
-
Best pasta to go
Corner Bakery
-
Best breakfast
Bread Winners Bakery & Café
-
Best place to buy a peach
Hunter's at the Farmers Market
-
Best Place to eat alone
La Madeleine French Bakery and Caf�
-
Best feta cheese selection
World Food Warehouse
-
Best steak
Pappas Bros. Steakhouse
-
Best cheap dinner
Bangkok Inn
-
Best rooftop patio
Milkbar
-
Best view
Chaparral Club in the Adams Mark Hotel
-
Best barbecue restaurant
North Main Bar-B-Q
-
Best Indian restaurant
Swarna Palace Indian Cuisine
-
Best interior restaurant garden
Bread Winners Bakery and Café
-
Best salad bar
Texas de Brazil
-
Best mussels
Daddy Jack's Wood Grill
-
Best fancy restaurant
Abacus
-
Best spaghetti & meatballs
Raneri's
-
Best chocolate chip cookie (tie)
J.D.'s Chippery & Great Harvest Bread Co.
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Best romantic restaurant
Lola
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Best apple turnover
The Mixing Bowl Bakery
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Best wine list
Jeroboam
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Best home cooking
Traci's Restaurant
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Best cinammon roll
A&J Bakery
-
Best sushi
Yokohama Sushi
-
Best stew
Guinness Stew, Emerald Mist Restaurant & Pub
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Best margarita
Don Pablo's
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Best duck
Citizen
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Best Turkish atmosphere
Café Istanbul
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Best dip
Tramontana's Absolut pepper diablo sauce
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Best fusion foray
Chow Thai Pacific Rim
-
Best ceviche
Ciudad D.F.
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Best pancakes
The Landmark at the Melrose Hotel
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Best seafood restaurant
S & D Oyster Company
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Best wrap
Wall Street Deli
-
Best gnocchi
Mangia e Bevi
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Best produce (tie)
Farmers Market & Groceryworks.com
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Best middle eastern restaurant
Basha Mediterranean Restaurant
-
Best burritos
Chipotle Mexican Grill
-
Best patio
Patrizio
-
Best Chinese (tie)
Caravelle Chinese & Vietnamese and Tong's House of Richardson
-
Best late-night restaurant
Fishbowl
-
Best Texas salad
Cowboy Cobb, Star Canyon
-
Best hangover recuperation spot
John's Café
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Best Chain
Mondo's
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Best Greek restaurant
Kostas Café
-
Best ready-made party dip
BLT at Marty's Cafe TuGogh
-
Best biddy-gut appetizer
Chicken-liver mousse, Charolais Steakhouse
-
Best Thai restaurant
Best Thai
-
Best ice cream
Marble Slab Creamery
-
Best all-American diner/lunch spot
Guthrie's Historical American Restaurant
-
Best smoothie
Smoothie King
-
Best dumplings
Tabil spiced pork dumplings, The Landmark at the Melrose Hotel
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Best Manhattan
The Bar at The Mansion on Turtle Creek
-
Best po' boy
Maguire's Regional Cuisine's Catfish Po Boy
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Best hamburger (tie)
Angry Dog & Jake's Old Fashioned Burgers and Beer
-
Best dressed-to-kill restaurant
Avanti Euro Bistro
-
Best fried chicken
Babe's Chicken Dinner House
-
Best crab (and otherwise) cakes
Sweet Temptations Bakery & Café
-
Best bong
Royal Spice Thai Bistro's, Bong Bong Chicken
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Best lemonade
La Madeleine French Bakery & Café
-
Best pho
Pho Saigon
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Best cake by the slice
Dallas Affairs Cake Co.
-
Best cup of coffee
Einstein's Bagels
-
Best arena food
Turkey leg at the Ballpark in Arlington
-
Best bagel (tie)
Einstein Bros. Bagels & Gilbert's New York Delicatessen
-
Best mojito
Samba Room
-
Best Vietnamese coffee
East Wind
-
Best whole fish
Fishbowl
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Best Italian restaurant
Salve! Ristorante
-
Best out of towner
Casa Del Lago
-
Best sushi to go
Tom Thumb Food & Pharmacy
-
Best neighborhood restaurant
Suze
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Best beer cheese soup
Flying Saucer Draught Emporium
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Best Oak Lawn Restaurant
Marco Italian
-
Best pub grub
The Old Monk
-
Best crème brûlée
The Green Room
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Best martini
Parigi
-
Best ice cream flavor
Coconut-banana at Marble Slab Creamery
-
Best muffaletta
Crescent City Café,
-
Best appetizer
Abacus Spoons
-
Best frozen concoction that's not a margarita
Cuba Libre's Island Mojo
-
Best foie gras
Voltaire
-
Best place to buy a vegan birthday cake
Cosmic Café,
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Best gulab jamun
India Palace Restaurant and Bar
-
Best restaurant for kids
Purple Cow
-
Best salsa
Mis Cazuelas
-
Best dessert
Salve! Ristorante
-
Best bean dip
Cuba Libre Café
-
Best falafel
Café Med
-
Best exotic restaurant
Tei Tei Robata Bar
-
Best lunch deal (tie)
Nuevo Leon & Monica's Aca y Alla
-
Best tapas
Café Madri
-
Best piece of meat
Star Canyon
-
Best french fries
We Oui
-
Best Mexican restaurant
Ciudad D.F.
-
Best place to chill out
Café Brazil
-
Best piece of catfish
Texana Grill
-
Best queso
Matt's Rancho Martinez
-
Best new bistro
Yumeya Sushi Bistro
-
Best fried shrimp for under $6
Rockfish
-
Best place to get in a food fight
EatZi's
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Best bell pepper
Raneri's
-
Best doughnuts
Mustang Donuts
-
Best sandwiches
Hungreez Deli & Pizza Pies
-
Best pizza
Brother's Pizza
-
Best wait staff
Maguire's Regional Cuisine
-
Best brunch
Ziziki's
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Shopping & Services
-
Best place to buy women's perfume
Sephora
-
Best card shop (tie)
Gifted & Nuvo
-
Best costume shop (tie)
Dallas Costume Shoppe & Norcostco Texas Costume
-
Best place for great junk bargains
Sarah's Thrift Store
-
Best custom frame shop
Frame Master
-
Best place to rent party equipment
Ducky Bob's Party Rental
-
Best plant nursery
Redenta's Organic Garden Centers
-
Best women's clothing
Arden B
-
Best music browsing mecca
CD Source
-
Best place to upgrade your garden
Sticks & Stones Garden Market
-
Best place to buy a thong
Spotlite Lingerie
-
Best obscure movie rental nook
Alternative Videos
-
Best handmade tortilla, soft drink, and voodoo market
Super Mercado Mexico
-
Best dry cleaners
Dee & Hattie Cleaners
-
Best place to find a gift for someone you barely know
Talulah
-
Best place to rent a car (tie)
Enterprise Rent-A-Car in Richardson & Rent-A-Wreck
-
Best CD store (used)
CD World
-
Best independent book store
Maxwell Books
-
Best revival of a shopping center
Wynnewood Village
-
Best rocks
Banks Stone Service Inc.
-
Best health food store (tie)
Whole Foods Market & Roy's Natural Market
-
Best place to get a pet
SPCA of Texas
-
Best hair colorist
The Beauty Store and Salon
-
Best way to get to Vegas
Legend Airlines
-
Best shopping center name in the Internet era
TheWebb@LBJ
-
Best florist
Dr. Delphinium Designs
-
Best place to spend money
Highland Park Village
-
Best place to buy old Life magazines
Forestwood Antique Mall
-
Best place to buy a formal gown
Stanley Korshak
-
Best grocery store for last- minute wine and flowers
Kroger in Oak Lawn
-
Best business start-up likely to kick butt
NextJet
-
Best women's re-sale clothing
Revente
-
Best barber
Medallion Barbers
-
Best toy store
Lakeshore Learning Store
-
Best place to buy fine china
The Ivy House
-
Best furniture store
Gabbert's Furniture Outlet
-
Best place to buy candles
Er' Go Outlet
-
Best hair salon
Hairs the End
-
Best place to buy gifts for vintage freaks and gadget geeks
Restoration Hardware
-
Best auto body shop
American Collision
-
Best way to build a fish pond on a balcony
Recycled wine barrel halves from Lowe's Home Improvement Warehouse
-
Best hardware store
Ace Hardware of Plano
-
Best place to decorate a rat packstyle pad
Cool Junk
-
Best place to buy a bra
The Maddox Shop
-
Best oriental rug cleaning
Oriental Rug Cleaning Co.
-
Best head shop
Pipe Dream
-
Best veterinary clinic
East Dallas Veterinary Clinic
-
Best place to view capitalism at its finest
Hebron Highway between Preston and Midway Roads
-
Best urban oasis shopping experience
The Urban Gardener
-
Best place for kids' shoes
Stride Rite
-
Best computer store
Best Buy
-
Best place to buy men's cologne
Neiman Marcus
-
Best place to buy picture frames
Wolf Camera & Video
-
Best handyman
Tommy Snider
-
Best scrapbook supply store
Scrappy's
-
Best car wash
Forest Car Wash
-
Best source to help you get the GQ look
David Mills at Neiman Marcus
-
Best place to buy DVDs
Movie Trading Co.
-
Best men's clothing store (tie)
Culwell & Son and Bachrach
-
Best comic book shop (tie)
Cosmic Comics and Cards & Titan Comics
-
Best place to window shop
Deco-Dence
-
Best kids' haircut
Stride Rite (ask for Ginger in the back)
-
Best place to buy chic furnishings on a not-so-chic budget (tie)
Crate & Barrel Outlet and Target
-
Best new bookstore
Borders Books Music & Café
-
Best new liquor store
The Liquor Shoppe: Hops, Barley & Grapes
-
Best place to buy salvaged parts for your home
Alexander's Salvage
-
Best liquor store
Centennial Liquor Store
-
Best place to buy ribbons, trim, and other stuff to make a hat
Milliners Supply Co.
-
Best place to get your tennis racket strung
Star Tennis
-
Best place to buy a firearm
First Call Firearms Sales
-
Best dog trainer
Best Behavior
-
Best video store
Premiere Video
-
Best place to learn to ride
Capricorn Equestrian Center
-
Best outlet shopping
Dillard's Clearance Center
-
Best kids' clothing store
Chocolate Soup
-
Best fashion shoe store for men and women
Sole Kitchen
-
Best ethnic jewelers
Aarti Jewelers
-
Best place to buy gift-wrap
Papyrus
-
Best interior-design guru
Richard Schrade
-
Best personal coach
Drue Gawel
-
Best immigration lawyer
Fernando Dubove
-
Best antique store
Snider Plaza Antiques
-
Best tattoo parlor
Pair O'Dice Tattoo
-
Best magazine stand
Superstand
-
Best place to buy juice
Whole Foods Market
-
Best kids bookstrore
Enchanted Forest
-
Best CD store (new)
Good Records
-
Best used bookstore
Half Price Books Records & Magazines
-
Best way to spend $20 in four minutes
Helicopter ride by DFW Helitours
-
Best private pre-school
Westminster Presbyterian Pre-School and Kindergarten
-
Best place to buy canned food
Fiesta Mart
-
Best one-hour film developing
Colorfast Photos
-
Best local tour of the Middle East
Worldwide Food, Inc.
-
Best discount clothing store
The Nordstrom Rack
-
Best travel agency
The Travel Bureau
-
Best gardening store
North Haven Gardens
-
Best clothes for Plano moms
Harold's
-
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Sports & Recreation
-
Best sports moment of 2000
Darryl Sydor crawls across the ice
-
Best Bicycle Equipment
Richardson Bike Mart
-
Best Feel-Good Story in Local Sports
Tim Seder
-
Best guy from whom to score
Michael Irvin
-
Best TV Sports Anchor
Dale Hansen
-
Best sports spectator experience
MasterCard Colonial Golf Tournament
-
Best in-town sports escape
Hank Haney Golf Center at City Place
-
Best Dallas Cowboy
Emmitt Smith
-
Best Place to Watch a Game
The Lakewood Landing
-
Best Sporting Goods Store
Academy Sports and Outdoors
-
Best Rivalry
Mickey Spagnola vs. Craig Miller
-
Best sports venue
SMU's Gerald J. Ford Stadium
-
Best Sports Talk Show
The Hardline/Dunham and Miller
-
Best place to play Ultimate Frisbee
Village Country Club IM Fields
-
Best unused sports facility
Samuell-Grand Tennis Center
-
Best Sporting Event No One Saw
The U.S. Olympic Triathlon Team Trials in Las Colinas
-
Best Camping Equipment
REI Store
-
Best Beat Writer
Gerry Fraley
-
Best chant
"Ed-die's Bet-ter"
-
Best professional sports coach
Ken Hitchcock, Dallas Stars
-
Best Sports Columnist
Randy Galloway
-
Best Example of Cluelessness
Johnny Oates playing Scott Sheldon in nine positions
-
Best golf course
TPC Las Colinas
-
Best Dallas Maverick
Michael Finley
-
Best Place to Work Out
Premier Athletic Club
-
Best Exorcism
Mark Cuban raising the Mavericks from the dead
-
Best bribe
Belfour's billion-dollar offer
-
Best Dallas Maverick for a day
Gordon Keith
-
Best Dallas athlete with Olympic record-breaking ambition
Michael Johnson
-
Best place to hoop-it-up
SMU's Dedman Gym
-
Best Texas Ranger
Rick Helling
-
Best Dallas Star
Sergei Zubov
-
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Culture
-
Best Dallas moment
Holding a parade to celebrate the opening of Central Expressway
-
Best District Judge
Judge Merrill Hartman, 192nd District Court
-
Best Actor
Derik Webb, Bless Cricket, Crest Toothpast, and Tommy Tune at the Dallas Children's Theatre
-
Best play with a local setting that you may never see in Dallas
Killer Joe by Tracy Letts
-
Best Intellectual Resource That Needs your support
The Dallas Public Library
-
Best sign that hell has frozen over
The Toadies' second album is finished
-
Best Reason Only Johnny Cash Should Be Allowed to Sing Johnny Cash Songs
Colin Boyd
-
Best open-mike poetry
Sankofa Arts Cafe
-
Best closet-sized art gallery
Annex Gallery
-
Best movie theater
Cinemark 17
-
Best Radio talk show
Glenn Mitchell, weekdays at noon on KERA-FM 90.1
-
Best Actress
Beverly May, Mrs. Klein
-
Best Campaign Line
Councilman James Fantroy
-
Best art museum
Dallas Museum of Art
-
Best Place to Introduce Children to Theater
Le Theatre de Marionette
-
Best Impromptu Performance by an actor
Bruce DuBose displays his, um, artistic temperament
-
Best Place to Attend a non-stuffy book-signing
Dick's Last Resort
-
Best Road Trip for Bookworms
Recycled Books & Records
-
Best evidence that the local music scene is better than Austin's (Despite what Texas Monthly says)
-
Best half-assed attempt to support local music
D's special local music issue in April
-
Best Dallas chanteuse
Drenda Barnett
-
Best African-American art gallery
Beaujour Galerie Des Beaux Arts
-
Best children's art school
J's Art Studio
-
Best visual artist
Nic Nicosia
-
Best place to find arcane videos
Forbidden Books
-
Best Radio DJ
Barry Switzer, "Football All the Way," Thursday at 6 p.m., KTCK-AM 1310
-
Best gadfly Web Site
Sharon Boyd's "It's a Bad Deal," www.dallasarena.com
-
Best Local TV News Show
Weeknight broadcasts on KTVT-TV Channel 11
-
Best Reason for An Appointed Judiciary
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
-
Best Director
Preston Lane
-
Best Band Comeback
Union Camp
-
Best proof that Texas Monthly might be right
-
Best threat to Sam Paulos' empire
ACME CD Manufacturing Co.,
-
Best threat to Sam Paulos' empire (Part II)
Last Beat music complex
-
Best place to see a living legend
Al Dupree at The Balcony Club
-
Best Public Sculpture
Pegasus, Farmers Market
-
Best elementary school
Stonewall Jackson Elementary
-
Best art gallery
You gotta be kidding
-
Best newspaper columnist
Timothy O'Leary, The Dallas Morning News
-
Best TV Journalist
Brett Shipp on WFAA Channel 8
-
Best city council member
James Fantroy
-
Best Political Gaffe
City council members wade into deep doo-doo
-
Best Theater Classes for Kids
Richardson Centre Theatre's Family Theatre
-
Best Production, Best Director
Inexpressible Island, Dallas Theatre Center; Preston Lane, Director
-
Best Improv Comedy Troupe
Section 8
-
Best local music fans
The Chomsky Army
-
Best Band Name (Once You Know What It Means)
The Lucky Pierres
-
Best Dallas businessman
Lou Reese
-
Best Online PR Stunt
dotcomguy
-
Best new museum
The Women's Museum
-
Best IMAX theater (tie)
Cinemark 17 & The Science Place
-
Best radio station
Magic 102.1-FM "Jammin' Oldies"
-
Best theater company
Wingspan Theatre
-
Best Gadfly/Activist
Anne Carlson, Dallas County chair, Common Cause Texas
-
Best place for foreign and indie films (tie)
Inwood Theatre & United Artists Cine
-
Best TV News Anchor
Gloria Campos, WFAA Channel 8
-
-
Food
-
Best new restaurant
Voltaire
-
Best lesbian drink
The Redheaded Slut at Sue Ellen's
-
Best quail
Il Solé Restaurant & Wine Bar
-
Best Jack and Coke
Bar of Soap Bar
-
Best pasta to go
Corner Bakery
-
Best breakfast
Bread Winners Bakery & Café
-
Best place to buy a peach
Hunter's at the Farmers Market
-
Best Place to eat alone
La Madeleine French Bakery and Café
-
Best feta cheese selection
World Food Warehouse
-
Best steak
Pappas Bros. Steakhouse
-
Best cheap dinner
Bangkok Inn
-
Best rooftop patio
Milkbar
-
Best view
Chaparral Club in the Adams Mark Hotel
-
Best barbecue restaurant
North Main Bar-B-Q
-
Best Indian restaurant
Swarna Palace Indian Cuisine
-
Best interior restaurant garden
Bread Winners Bakery and Café
-
Best salad bar
Texas de Brazil
-
Best mussels
Daddy Jack's Wood Grill
-
Best fancy restaurant
Abacus
-
Best spaghetti & meatballs
Raneri's
-
Best chocolate chip cookie (tie)
J.D.'s Chippery & Great Harvest Bread Co.
-
Best romantic restaurant
Lola
-
Best apple turnover
The Mixing Bowl Bakery
-
Best wine list
Jeroboam
-
Best home cooking
Traci's Restaurant
-
Best cinammon roll
A&J Bakery
-
Best sushi
Yokohama Sushi
-
Best stew
Guinness Stew, Emerald Mist Restaurant & Pub
-
Best margarita
Don Pablo's
-
Best duck
Citizen
-
Best Turkish atmosphere
Café Istanbul
-
Best dip
Tramontana's Absolut pepper diablo sauce
-
Best fusion foray
Chow Thai Pacific Rim
-
Best ceviche
Ciudad D.F.
-
Best pancakes
The Landmark at the Melrose Hotel
-
Best seafood restaurant
S & D Oyster Company
-
Best wrap
Wall Street Deli
-
Best gnocchi
Mangia e Bevi
-
Best produce (tie)
Farmers Market & Groceryworks.com
-
Best middle eastern restaurant
Basha Mediterranean Restaurant
-
Best burritos
Chipotle Mexican Grill
-
Best patio
Patrizio
-
Best Chinese (tie)
Caravelle Chinese & Vietnamese and Tong's House of Richardson
-
Best late-night restaurant
Fishbowl
-
Best Texas salad
Cowboy Cobb, Star Canyon
-
Best hangover recuperation spot
John's Café
-
Best Chain
Mondo's
-
Best Greek restaurant
Kostas Café
-
Best ready-made party dip
BLT at Marty's Cafe TuGogh
-
Best biddy-gut appetizer
Chicken-liver mousse, Charolais Steakhouse
-
Best Thai restaurant
Best Thai
-
Best ice cream
Marble Slab Creamery
-
Best all-American diner/lunch spot
Guthrie's Historical American Restaurant
-
Best smoothie
Smoothie King
-
Best dumplings
Tabil spiced pork dumplings, The Landmark at the Melrose Hotel
-
Best Manhattan
The Bar at The Mansion on Turtle Creek
-
Best po' boy
Maguire's Regional Cuisine's Catfish Po Boy
-
Best hamburger (tie)
Angry Dog & Jake's Old Fashioned Burgers and Beer
-
Best dressed-to-kill restaurant
Avanti Euro Bistro
-
Best fried chicken
Babe's Chicken Dinner House
-
Best crab (and otherwise) cakes
Sweet Temptations Bakery & Café
-
Best bong
Royal Spice Thai Bistro's, Bong Bong Chicken
-
Best lemonade
La Madeleine French Bakery & Café
-
Best pho
Pho Saigon
-
Best cake by the slice
Dallas Affairs Cake Co.
-
Best cup of coffee
Einstein's Bagels
-
Best arena food
Turkey leg at the Ballpark in Arlington
-
Best bagel (tie)
Einstein Bros. Bagels & Gilbert's New York Delicatessen
-
Best mojito
Samba Room
-
Best Vietnamese coffee
East Wind
-
Best whole fish
Fishbowl
-
Best Italian restaurant
Salve! Ristorante
-
Best out of towner
Casa Del Lago
-
Best sushi to go
Tom Thumb Food & Pharmacy
-
Best neighborhood restaurant
Suze
-
Best beer cheese soup
Flying Saucer Draught Emporium
-
Best Oak Lawn Restaurant
Marco Italian
-
Best pub grub
The Old Monk
-
Best crème brûlée
The Green Room
-
Best martini
Parigi
-
Best ice cream flavor
Coconut-banana at Marble Slab Creamery
-
Best muffaletta
Crescent City Café,
-
Best appetizer
Abacus Spoons
-
Best frozen concoction that's not a margarita
Cuba Libre's Island Mojo
-
Best foie gras
Voltaire
-
Best place to buy a vegan birthday cake
Cosmic Café,
-
Best gulab jamun
India Palace Restaurant and Bar
-
Best restaurant for kids
Purple Cow
-
Best salsa
Mis Cazuelas
-
Best dessert
Salve! Ristorante
-
Best bean dip
Cuba Libre Café
-
Best falafel
Café Med
-
Best exotic restaurant
Tei Tei Robata Bar
-
Best lunch deal (tie)
Nuevo Leon & Monica's Aca y Alla
-
Best tapas
Café Madri
-
Best piece of meat
Star Canyon
-
Best french fries
We Oui
-
Best Mexican restaurant
Ciudad D.F.
-
Best place to chill out
Café Brazil
-
Best piece of catfish
Texana Grill
-
Best queso
Matt's Rancho Martinez
-
Best new bistro
Yumeya Sushi Bistro
-
Best fried shrimp for under $6
Rockfish
-
Best place to get in a food fight
EatZi's
-
Best bell pepper
Raneri's
-
Best doughnuts
Mustang Donuts
-
Best sandwiches
Hungreez Deli & Pizza Pies
-
Best pizza
Brother's Pizza
-
Best wait staff
Maguire's Regional Cuisine
-
Best brunch
Ziziki's
-
-
Market
-
Best place to buy women's perfume
Sephora
-
Best card shop (tie)
Gifted | Nuvo
-
Best costume shop (tie)
Dallas Costume Shoppe & Norcostco Texas Costume
-
Best place for great junk bargains
Sarah's Thrift Store
-
Best custom frame shop
Frame Master
-
Best place to rent party equipment
Ducky Bob's Party Rental
-
Best plant nursery
Redenta's Organic Garden Centers
-
Best women's clothing
Arden B
-
Best music browsing mecca
CD Source
-
Best place to upgrade your garden
Sticks & Stones Garden Market
-
Best place to buy a thong
Spotlite Lingerie
-
Best obscure movie rental nook
Alternative Videos
-
Best handmade tortilla, soft drink, and voodoo market
Super Mercado Mexico
-
Best dry cleaners
Dee & Hattie Cleaners
-
Best place to find a gift for someone you barely know
Talulah
-
Best place to rent a car (tie)
Enterprise Rent-A-Car in Richardson & Rent-A-Wreck
-
Best CD store (used)
CD World
-
Best independent book store
Maxwell Books
-
Best revival of a shopping center
Wynnewood Village
-
Best rocks
Banks Stone Service Inc.
-
Best health food store (tie)
Whole Foods Market & Roy's Natural Market
-
Best place to get a pet
SPCA of Texas
-
Best hair colorist
The Beauty Store and Salon
-
Best way to get to Vegas
Legend Airlines
-
Best shopping center name in the Internet era
TheWebb@LBJ
-
Best florist
Dr. Delphinium Designs
-
Best place to spend money
Highland Park Village
-
Best place to buy old Life magazines
Forestwood Antique Mall
-
Best place to buy a formal gown
Stanley Korshak
-
Best grocery store for last- minute wine and flowers
Kroger in Oak Lawn
-
Best business start-up likely to kick butt
NextJet
-
Best women's re-sale clothing
Revente
-
Best barber
Medallion Barbers
-
Best toy store
Lakeshore Learning Store
-
Best place to buy fine china
The Ivy House
-
Best furniture store
Gabbert's Furniture Outlet
-
Best place to buy candles
Er' Go Outlet
-
Best hair salon
Hairs the End
-
Best place to buy gifts for vintage freaks and gadget geeks
Restoration Hardware
-
Best auto body shop
American Collision
-
Best way to build a fish pond on a balcony
Recycled wine barrel halves from Lowe's Home Improvement Warehouse
-
Best hardware store
Ace Hardware of Plano
-
Best place to decorate a rat packstyle pad
Cool Junk
-
Best place to buy a bra
The Maddox Shop
-
Best oriental rug cleaning
Oriental Rug Cleaning Co.
-
Best head shop
Pipe Dream
-
Best veterinary clinic
East Dallas Veterinary Clinic
-
Best place to view capitalism at its finest
Hebron Highway between Preston and Midway Roads
-
Best urban oasis shopping experience
The Urban Gardener
-
Best place for kids' shoes
Stride Rite
-
Best computer store
Best Buy
-
Best place to buy men's cologne
Neiman Marcus
-
Best place to buy picture frames
Wolf Camera & Video
-
Best handyman
Tommy Snider
-
Best scrapbook supply store
Scrappy's
-
Best car wash
Forest Car Wash
-
Best source to help you get the GQ look
David Mills at Neiman Marcus
-
Best place to buy DVDs
Movie Trading Co.
-
Best men's clothing store (tie)
Culwell & Son and Bachrach
-
Best comic book shop (tie)
Cosmic Comics and Cards & Titan Comics
-
Best place to window shop
Deco-Dence
-
Best kids' haircut
Stride Rite (ask for Ginger in the back)
-
Best place to buy chic furnishings on a not-so-chic budget (tie)
Crate & Barrel Outlet and Target
-
Best new bookstore
Borders Books Music & Café
-
Best new liquor store
The Liquor Shoppe: Hops, Barley & Grapes
-
Best place to buy salvaged parts for your home
Alexander's Salvage
-
Best liquor store
Centennial Liquor Store
-
Best place to buy ribbons, trim, and other stuff to make a hat
Milliners Supply Co.
-
Best place to get your tennis racket strung
Star Tennis
-
Best place to buy a firearm
First Call Firearms Sales
-
Best dog trainer
Best Behavior
-
Best video store
Premiere Video
-
Best place to learn to ride
Capricorn Equestrian Center
-
Best outlet shopping
Dillard's Clearance Center
-
Best kids' clothing store
Chocolate Soup
-
Best fashion shoe store for men and women
Sole Kitchen
-
Best ethnic jewelers
Aarti Jewelers
-
Best place to buy gift-wrap
Papyrus
-
Best interior-design guru
Richard Schrade
-
Best personal coach
Drue Gawel
-
Best immigration lawyer
Fernando Dubove
-
Best antique store
Snider Plaza Antiques
-
Best tattoo parlor
Pair O'Dice Tattoo
-
Best magazine stand
Superstand
-
Best place to buy juice
Whole Foods Market
-
Best kids bookstrore
Enchanted Forest
-
Best CD store (new)
Good Records
-
Best used bookstore
Half Price Books Records & Magazines
-
Best way to spend $20 in four minutes
Helicopter ride by DFW Helitours
-
Best private pre-school
Westminster Presbyterian Pre-School and Kindergarten
-
Best place to buy canned food
Fiesta Mart
-
Best one-hour film developing
Colorfast Photos
-
Best local tour of the Middle East
Worldwide Food, Inc.
-
Best discount clothing store
The Nordstrom Rack
-
Best travel agency
The Travel Bureau
-
Best gardening store
North Haven Gardens
-
Best clothes for Plano moms
Harold's
-
-
Scenes
-
Best comeback for a venue
Hard Rock Café
-
Best neighborhood
Little Forest Hills
-
Best place to read a newspaper
Coffee Haus
-
Best place to walk on water
Leonhardt Lagoon
-
Best place to beat the heat
Hurricane Harbor
-
Best jazz club
Sambuca
-
Best rock bar
The Rock,
-
Best place to kick it with bikers
The Blue Goose
-
Best urban street-side patio dining
Thai Soon
-
Best Place to Jog
White Rock Lake
-
Best honky tonk
Country 2000
-
Best Bowling Alley
AMF Richardson Lanes
-
Best bar name
The now-defunct Beer Goggles in Deep Ellum
-
Best piano bar
After Dark
-
Best place to throw a bridal shower
S&S Tea Room
-
Best name for an auto dealer
Topless Motors
-
Best scenic drive
Van Zandt County
-
Best place to go on a day trip (tie)
Fossil Rim Wildlife Center & Mt. Carmel Center
-
Best place for a piñata party
Under the gnarly live oak trees at Tietze Park, on Skillman Streets in East Dallas, bounded by Llano and Vanderbilt streets
-
Best place to race illegally
Intersections of Parker and Independence, Coit and Park, Plano
-
Best blues club
Blue Cat Blues
-
Best Tejano club
Tejano West
-
Best place to feel at one with Deep Ellum
Boyd Gallery
-
Best family outing on a summer weekday
The Dallas Arboretum
-
Best beer joint
The Ginger Man
-
Best way to get to the zoo
DART Rail, (214) 979-1111
-
Best place to go on monday nights
The Cavern
-
Best place to drink icy cold beer during the day
Ship's Lounge
-
Best revolving sign
Raven's Prescription Pharmacy
-
Best place to forget you're in Oak Cliff
Kessler Park
-
Best rainy-day activity with the kids
Bass Pro Shops Outdoor World
-
Best outing with the kids
Dallas Museum of Art
-
Best morning stroll
White Rock Lake from the spillway at Garland Road and White Rock Drive or from the old boat house at West Lawther Drive near Williamson and White Rock roads
-
Best place to watch amateur inline hockey
Slapshots Inline Arena
-
Best alternative club
Trees
-
Best bar for smokers
Lakewood Landing
-
Best place to meet computer geeks
Main Street Internet
-
Best place for a kid's party
Dallas Puppet Theater
-
Best place to (pseudo) rave
One
-
Best place to save the world during the spin cycle
Bar of Soap
-
Best billiards
Cuckoo's Nest
-
Best live music venue
Gypsy Tea Room
-
Best tragic place to invite more tragedy
Dealey Plaza
-
Best place to read poetry
Restland Funeral Home
-
Best playground
Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children
-
Best evening stroll
Swiss Avenue
-
Best place to watch softball games
Softball World
-
Best Irish bar
The Dubliner
-
Best dance club
Lizard Lounge
-
Best gay bar
The Crew's Inn
-
Best place to commune with nature
White Rock Lake
-
Best place to annoy pedestrians in Deep Ellum
The valet stand at the Green Room
-
Best Place to Roller Skate
White Rock Skate
-
Best lesbian bar
Buddies II
-
Best frat scene
The Beagle
-
Best way to curb your anger
Target Master Indoor Shooting Center and Gun Store
-
Best place for downtown yuppies to take their kids
America's Ice Garden Ice Rink
-
Best place for a romantic rendezvous
Hotel St. Germain
-
-
Sports
-
Best sports moment of 2000
Darryl Sydor crawls across the ice
-
Best Bicycle Equipment
Richardson Bike Mart
-
Best Feel-Good Story in Local Sports
Tim Seder
-
Best guy from whom to score
Michael Irvin
-
Best TV Sports Anchor
Dale Hansen
-
Best sports spectator experience
MasterCard Colonial Golf Tournament
-
Best in-town sports escape
Hank Haney Golf Center at City Place
-
Best Dallas Cowboy
Emmitt Smith
-
Best Place to Watch a Game
The Lakewood Landing
-
Best Sporting Goods Store
Academy Sports and Outdoors
-
Best Rivalry
Mickey Spagnola vs. Craig Miller
-
Best sports venue
SMU's Gerald J. Ford Stadium
-
Best Sports Talk Show
The Hardline/Dunham and Miller
-
Best place to play Ultimate Frisbee
Village Country Club IM Fields
-
Best unused sports facility
Samuell-Grand Tennis Center
-
Best Sporting Event No One Saw
The U.S. Olympic Triathlon Team Trials in Las Colinas
-
Best Camping Equipment
REI Store
-
Best Beat Writer
Gerry Fraley
-
Best chant
"Ed-die's Bet-ter"
-
Best professional sports coach
Ken Hitchcock, Dallas Stars
-
Best Sports Columnist
Randy Galloway
-
Best Example of Cluelessness
Johnny Oates playing Scott Sheldon in nine positions
-
Best golf course
TPC Las Colinas
-
Best Dallas Maverick
Michael Finley
-
Best Place to Work Out
Premier Athletic Club
-
Best Exorcism
Mark Cuban raising the Mavericks from the dead
-
Best bribe
Belfour's billion-dollar offer
-
Best Dallas Maverick for a day
Gordon Keith
-
Best Dallas athlete with Olympic record-breaking ambition
Michael Johnson
-
Best place to hoop-it-up
SMU's Dedman Gym
-
Best Texas Ranger
Rick Helling
-
Best Dallas Star
Sergei Zubov
-
Best Of
-
Arts & Entertainment
-
Best Dallas moment
Holding a parade to celebrate the opening of Central Expressway
-
Best District Judge
Judge Merrill Hartman, 192nd District Court
-
Best Actor
Derik Webb, Bless Cricket, Crest Toothpast, and Tommy Tune at the Dallas Children's Theatre
-
Best play with a local setting that you may never see in Dallas
Killer Joe by Tracy Letts
-
Best Intellectual Resource That Needs your support
The Dallas Public Library
-
Best sign that hell has frozen over
The Toadies' second album is finished
-
Best Reason Only Johnny Cash Should Be Allowed to Sing Johnny Cash Songs
Colin Boyd
-
Best open-mike poetry
Sankofa Arts Cafe
-
Best closet-sized art gallery
Annex Gallery
-
Best movie theater
Cinemark 17
-
Best Radio talk show
Glenn Mitchell, weekdays at noon on KERA-FM 90.1
-
Best Actress
Beverly May, Mrs. Klein
-
Best Campaign Line
Councilman James Fantroy
-
Best art museum
Dallas Museum of Art
-
Best Place to Introduce Children to Theater
Le Theatre de Marionette
-
Best Impromptu Performance by an actor
Bruce DuBose displays his, um, artistic temperament
-
Best Place to Attend a non-stuffy book-signing
Dick's Last Resort
-
Best Road Trip for Bookworms
Recycled Books & Records
-
Best evidence that the local music scene is better than Austin's (Despite what Texas Monthly says)
-
Best half-assed attempt to support local music
D's special local music issue in April
-
Best Dallas chanteuse
Drenda Barnett
-
Best African-American art gallery
Beaujour Galerie Des Beaux Arts
-
Best children's art school
J's Art Studio
-
Best visual artist
Nic Nicosia
-
Best place to find arcane videos
Forbidden Books
-
Best Radio DJ
Barry Switzer, "Football All the Way," Thursday at 6 p.m., KTCK-AM 1310
-
Best comeback for a venue
Hard Rock Café
-
Best gadfly Web Site
Sharon Boyd's "It's a Bad Deal," www.dallasarena.com
-
Best Local TV News Show
Weeknight broadcasts on KTVT-TV Channel 11
-
Best Reason for An Appointed Judiciary
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
-
Best Director
Preston Lane
-
Best Band Comeback
Union Camp
-
Best neighborhood
Little Forest Hills
-
Best proof that Texas Monthly might be right
-
Best threat to Sam Paulos' empire
ACME CD Manufacturing Co.,
-
Best threat to Sam Paulos' empire (Part II)
Last Beat music complex
-
Best place to see a living legend
Al Dupree at The Balcony Club
-
Best place to read a newspaper
Coffee Haus
-
Best Public Sculpture
Pegasus, Farmers Market
-
Best elementary school
Stonewall Jackson Elementary
-
Best art gallery
You gotta be kidding
-
Best place to walk on water
Leonhardt Lagoon
-
Best newspaper columnist
Timothy O'Leary, The Dallas Morning News
-
Best TV Journalist
Brett Shipp on WFAA Channel 8
-
Best city council member
James Fantroy
-
Best Political Gaffe
City council members wade into deep doo-doo
-
Best Theater Classes for Kids
Richardson Centre Theatre's Family Theatre
-
Best Production, Best Director
Inexpressible Island, Dallas Theatre Center; Preston Lane, Director
-
Best Improv Comedy Troupe
Section 8
-
Best local music fans
The Chomsky Army
-
Best Band Name (Once You Know What It Means)
The Lucky Pierres
-
Best Dallas businessman
Lou Reese
-
Best Online PR Stunt
dotcomguy
-
Best new museum
The Women's Museum
-
Best IMAX theater (tie)
Cinemark 17 & The Science Place
-
Best radio station
Magic 102.1-FM "Jammin' Oldies"
-
Best theater company
Wingspan Theatre
-
Best Gadfly/Activist
Anne Carlson, Dallas County chair, Common Cause Texas
-
Best place for foreign and indie films (tie)
Inwood Theatre & United Artists Cine
-
Best TV News Anchor
Gloria Campos, WFAA Channel 8
-
Best place to beat the heat
Hurricane Harbor
-
Best jazz club
Sambuca
-
Best rock bar
The Rock,
-
Best place to kick it with bikers
The Blue Goose
-
Best urban street-side patio dining
Thai Soon
-
Best Place to Jog
White Rock Lake
-
Best honky tonk
Country 2000
-
Best Bowling Alley
AMF Richardson Lanes
-
Best bar name
The now-defunct Beer Goggles in Deep Ellum
-
Best piano bar
After Dark
-
Best place to throw a bridal shower
S&S Tea Room
-
Best name for an auto dealer
Topless Motors
-
Best scenic drive
Van Zandt County
-
Best place to go on a day trip (tie)
Fossil Rim Wildlife Center & Mt. Carmel Center
-
Best place for a piñata party
Under the gnarly live oak trees at Tietze Park, on Skillman Streets in East Dallas, bounded by Llano and Vanderbilt streets
-
Best place to race illegally
Intersections of Parker and Independence, Coit and Park, Plano
-
Best blues club
Blue Cat Blues
-
Best Tejano club
Tejano West
-
Best place to feel at one with Deep Ellum
Boyd Gallery
-
Best family outing on a summer weekday
The Dallas Arboretum
-
Best beer joint
The Ginger Man
-
Best way to get to the zoo
DART Rail, (214) 979-1111
-
Best place to go on monday nights
The Cavern
-
Best place to drink icy cold beer during the day
Ship's Lounge
-
Best revolving sign
Raven's Prescription Pharmacy
-
Best place to forget you're in Oak Cliff
Kessler Park
-
Best rainy-day activity with the kids
Bass Pro Shops Outdoor World
-
Best outing with the kids
Dallas Museum of Art
-
Best morning stroll
White Rock Lake from the spillway at Garland Road and White Rock Drive or from the old boat house at West Lawther Drive near Williamson and White Rock roads
-
Best place to watch amateur inline hockey
Slapshots Inline Arena
-
Best alternative club
Trees
-
Best bar for smokers
Lakewood Landing
-
Best place to meet computer geeks
Main Street Internet
-
Best place for a kid's party
Dallas Puppet Theater
-
Best place to (pseudo) rave
One
-
Best place to save the world during the spin cycle
Bar of Soap
-
Best billiards
Cuckoo's Nest
-
Best live music venue
Gypsy Tea Room
-
Best tragic place to invite more tragedy
Dealey Plaza
-
Best place to read poetry
Restland Funeral Home
-
Best playground
Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children
-
Best evening stroll
Swiss Avenue
-
Best place to watch softball games
Softball World
-
Best Irish bar
The Dubliner
-
Best dance club
Lizard Lounge
-
Best gay bar
The Crew's Inn
-
Best place to commune with nature
White Rock Lake
-
Best place to annoy pedestrians in Deep Ellum
The valet stand at the Green Room
-
Best Place to Roller Skate
White Rock Skate
-
Best lesbian bar
Buddies II
-
Best frat scene
The Beagle
-
Best way to curb your anger
Target Master Indoor Shooting Center and Gun Store
-
Best place for downtown yuppies to take their kids
America's Ice Garden Ice Rink
-
Best place for a romantic rendezvous
Hotel St. Germain
-
-
Food & Drink
-
Best New Restaurant
Voltaire
-
Best lesbian drink
The Redheaded Slut at Sue Ellen's
-
Best quail
Il Solé Restaurant & Wine Bar
-
Best Jack and Coke
Bar of Soap Bar
-
Best pasta to go
Corner Bakery
-
Best breakfast
Bread Winners Bakery & Café
-
Best place to buy a peach
Hunter's at the Farmers Market
-
Best Place to eat alone
La Madeleine French Bakery and Caf�
-
Best feta cheese selection
World Food Warehouse
-
Best steak
Pappas Bros. Steakhouse
-
Best cheap dinner
Bangkok Inn
-
Best rooftop patio
Milkbar
-
Best view
Chaparral Club in the Adams Mark Hotel
-
Best barbecue restaurant
North Main Bar-B-Q
-
Best Indian restaurant
Swarna Palace Indian Cuisine
-
Best interior restaurant garden
Bread Winners Bakery and Café
-
Best salad bar
Texas de Brazil
-
Best mussels
Daddy Jack's Wood Grill
-
Best fancy restaurant
Abacus
-
Best spaghetti & meatballs
Raneri's
-
Best chocolate chip cookie (tie)
J.D.'s Chippery & Great Harvest Bread Co.
-
Best romantic restaurant
Lola
-
Best apple turnover
The Mixing Bowl Bakery
-
Best wine list
Jeroboam
-
Best home cooking
Traci's Restaurant
-
Best cinammon roll
A&J Bakery
-
Best sushi
Yokohama Sushi
-
Best stew
Guinness Stew, Emerald Mist Restaurant & Pub
-
Best margarita
Don Pablo's
-
Best duck
Citizen
-
Best Turkish atmosphere
Café Istanbul
-
Best dip
Tramontana's Absolut pepper diablo sauce
-
Best fusion foray
Chow Thai Pacific Rim
-
Best ceviche
Ciudad D.F.
-
Best pancakes
The Landmark at the Melrose Hotel
-
Best seafood restaurant
S & D Oyster Company
-
Best wrap
Wall Street Deli
-
Best gnocchi
Mangia e Bevi
-
Best produce (tie)
Farmers Market & Groceryworks.com
-
Best middle eastern restaurant
Basha Mediterranean Restaurant
-
Best burritos
Chipotle Mexican Grill
-
Best patio
Patrizio
-
Best Chinese (tie)
Caravelle Chinese & Vietnamese and Tong's House of Richardson
-
Best late-night restaurant
Fishbowl
-
Best Texas salad
Cowboy Cobb, Star Canyon
-
Best hangover recuperation spot
John's Café
-
Best Chain
Mondo's
-
Best Greek restaurant
Kostas Café
-
Best ready-made party dip
BLT at Marty's Cafe TuGogh
-
Best biddy-gut appetizer
Chicken-liver mousse, Charolais Steakhouse
-
Best Thai restaurant
Best Thai
-
Best ice cream
Marble Slab Creamery
-
Best all-American diner/lunch spot
Guthrie's Historical American Restaurant
-
Best smoothie
Smoothie King
-
Best dumplings
Tabil spiced pork dumplings, The Landmark at the Melrose Hotel
-
Best Manhattan
The Bar at The Mansion on Turtle Creek
-
Best po' boy
Maguire's Regional Cuisine's Catfish Po Boy
-
Best hamburger (tie)
Angry Dog & Jake's Old Fashioned Burgers and Beer
-
Best dressed-to-kill restaurant
Avanti Euro Bistro
-
Best fried chicken
Babe's Chicken Dinner House
-
Best crab (and otherwise) cakes
Sweet Temptations Bakery & Café
-
Best bong
Royal Spice Thai Bistro's, Bong Bong Chicken
-
Best lemonade
La Madeleine French Bakery & Café
-
Best pho
Pho Saigon
-
Best cake by the slice
Dallas Affairs Cake Co.
-
Best cup of coffee
Einstein's Bagels
-
Best arena food
Turkey leg at the Ballpark in Arlington
-
Best bagel (tie)
Einstein Bros. Bagels & Gilbert's New York Delicatessen
-
Best mojito
Samba Room
-
Best Vietnamese coffee
East Wind
-
Best whole fish
Fishbowl
-
Best Italian restaurant
Salve! Ristorante
-
Best out of towner
Casa Del Lago
-
Best sushi to go
Tom Thumb Food & Pharmacy
-
Best neighborhood restaurant
Suze
-
Best beer cheese soup
Flying Saucer Draught Emporium
-
Best Oak Lawn Restaurant
Marco Italian
-
Best pub grub
The Old Monk
-
Best crème brûlée
The Green Room
-
Best martini
Parigi
-
Best ice cream flavor
Coconut-banana at Marble Slab Creamery
-
Best muffaletta
Crescent City Café,
-
Best appetizer
Abacus Spoons
-
Best frozen concoction that's not a margarita
Cuba Libre's Island Mojo
-
Best foie gras
Voltaire
-
Best place to buy a vegan birthday cake
Cosmic Café,
-
Best gulab jamun
India Palace Restaurant and Bar
-
Best restaurant for kids
Purple Cow
-
Best salsa
Mis Cazuelas
-
Best dessert
Salve! Ristorante
-
Best bean dip
Cuba Libre Café
-
Best falafel
Café Med
-
Best exotic restaurant
Tei Tei Robata Bar
-
Best lunch deal (tie)
Nuevo Leon & Monica's Aca y Alla
-
Best tapas
Café Madri
-
Best piece of meat
Star Canyon
-
Best french fries
We Oui
-
Best Mexican restaurant
Ciudad D.F.
-
Best place to chill out
Café Brazil
-
Best piece of catfish
Texana Grill
-
Best queso
Matt's Rancho Martinez
-
Best new bistro
Yumeya Sushi Bistro
-
Best fried shrimp for under $6
Rockfish
-
Best place to get in a food fight
EatZi's
-
Best bell pepper
Raneri's
-
Best doughnuts
Mustang Donuts
-
Best sandwiches
Hungreez Deli & Pizza Pies
-
Best pizza
Brother's Pizza
-
Best wait staff
Maguire's Regional Cuisine
-
Best brunch
Ziziki's
-
-
Shopping & Services
-
Best place to buy women's perfume
Sephora
-
Best card shop (tie)
Gifted & Nuvo
-
Best costume shop (tie)
Dallas Costume Shoppe & Norcostco Texas Costume
-
Best place for great junk bargains
Sarah's Thrift Store
-
Best custom frame shop
Frame Master
-
Best place to rent party equipment
Ducky Bob's Party Rental
-
Best plant nursery
Redenta's Organic Garden Centers
-
Best women's clothing
Arden B
-
Best music browsing mecca
CD Source
-
Best place to upgrade your garden
Sticks & Stones Garden Market
-
Best place to buy a thong
Spotlite Lingerie
-
Best obscure movie rental nook
Alternative Videos
-
Best handmade tortilla, soft drink, and voodoo market
Super Mercado Mexico
-
Best dry cleaners
Dee & Hattie Cleaners
-
Best place to find a gift for someone you barely know
Talulah
-
Best place to rent a car (tie)
Enterprise Rent-A-Car in Richardson & Rent-A-Wreck
-
Best CD store (used)
CD World
-
Best independent book store
Maxwell Books
-
Best revival of a shopping center
Wynnewood Village
-
Best rocks
Banks Stone Service Inc.
-
Best health food store (tie)
Whole Foods Market & Roy's Natural Market
-
Best place to get a pet
SPCA of Texas
-
Best hair colorist
The Beauty Store and Salon
-
Best way to get to Vegas
Legend Airlines
-
Best shopping center name in the Internet era
TheWebb@LBJ
-
Best florist
Dr. Delphinium Designs
-
Best place to spend money
Highland Park Village
-
Best place to buy old Life magazines
Forestwood Antique Mall
-
Best place to buy a formal gown
Stanley Korshak
-
Best grocery store for last- minute wine and flowers
Kroger in Oak Lawn
-
Best business start-up likely to kick butt
NextJet
-
Best women's re-sale clothing
Revente
-
Best barber
Medallion Barbers
-
Best toy store
Lakeshore Learning Store
-
Best place to buy fine china
The Ivy House
-
Best furniture store
Gabbert's Furniture Outlet
-
Best place to buy candles
Er' Go Outlet
-
Best hair salon
Hairs the End
-
Best place to buy gifts for vintage freaks and gadget geeks
Restoration Hardware
-
Best auto body shop
American Collision
-
Best way to build a fish pond on a balcony
Recycled wine barrel halves from Lowe's Home Improvement Warehouse
-
Best hardware store
Ace Hardware of Plano
-
Best place to decorate a rat packstyle pad
Cool Junk
-
Best place to buy a bra
The Maddox Shop
-
Best oriental rug cleaning
Oriental Rug Cleaning Co.
-
Best head shop
Pipe Dream
-
Best veterinary clinic
East Dallas Veterinary Clinic
-
Best place to view capitalism at its finest
Hebron Highway between Preston and Midway Roads
-
Best urban oasis shopping experience
The Urban Gardener
-
Best place for kids' shoes
Stride Rite
-
Best computer store
Best Buy
-
Best place to buy men's cologne
Neiman Marcus
-
Best place to buy picture frames
Wolf Camera & Video
-
Best handyman
Tommy Snider
-
Best scrapbook supply store
Scrappy's
-
Best car wash
Forest Car Wash
-
Best source to help you get the GQ look
David Mills at Neiman Marcus
-
Best place to buy DVDs
Movie Trading Co.
-
Best men's clothing store (tie)
Culwell & Son and Bachrach
-
Best comic book shop (tie)
Cosmic Comics and Cards & Titan Comics
-
Best place to window shop
Deco-Dence
-
Best kids' haircut
Stride Rite (ask for Ginger in the back)
-
Best place to buy chic furnishings on a not-so-chic budget (tie)
Crate & Barrel Outlet and Target
-
Best new bookstore
Borders Books Music & Café
-
Best new liquor store
The Liquor Shoppe: Hops, Barley & Grapes
-
Best place to buy salvaged parts for your home
Alexander's Salvage
-
Best liquor store
Centennial Liquor Store
-
Best place to buy ribbons, trim, and other stuff to make a hat
Milliners Supply Co.
-
Best place to get your tennis racket strung
Star Tennis
-
Best place to buy a firearm
First Call Firearms Sales
-
Best dog trainer
Best Behavior
-
Best video store
Premiere Video
-
Best place to learn to ride
Capricorn Equestrian Center
-
Best outlet shopping
Dillard's Clearance Center
-
Best kids' clothing store
Chocolate Soup
-
Best fashion shoe store for men and women
Sole Kitchen
-
Best ethnic jewelers
Aarti Jewelers
-
Best place to buy gift-wrap
Papyrus
-
Best interior-design guru
Richard Schrade
-
Best personal coach
Drue Gawel
-
Best immigration lawyer
Fernando Dubove
-
Best antique store
Snider Plaza Antiques
-
Best tattoo parlor
Pair O'Dice Tattoo
-
Best magazine stand
Superstand
-
Best place to buy juice
Whole Foods Market
-
Best kids bookstrore
Enchanted Forest
-
Best CD store (new)
Good Records
-
Best used bookstore
Half Price Books Records & Magazines
-
Best way to spend $20 in four minutes
Helicopter ride by DFW Helitours
-
Best private pre-school
Westminster Presbyterian Pre-School and Kindergarten
-
Best place to buy canned food
Fiesta Mart
-
Best one-hour film developing
Colorfast Photos
-
Best local tour of the Middle East
Worldwide Food, Inc.
-
Best discount clothing store
The Nordstrom Rack
-
Best travel agency
The Travel Bureau
-
Best gardening store
North Haven Gardens
-
Best clothes for Plano moms
Harold's
-
-
Sports & Recreation
-
Best sports moment of 2000
Darryl Sydor crawls across the ice
-
Best Bicycle Equipment
Richardson Bike Mart
-
Best Feel-Good Story in Local Sports
Tim Seder
-
Best guy from whom to score
Michael Irvin
-
Best TV Sports Anchor
Dale Hansen
-
Best sports spectator experience
MasterCard Colonial Golf Tournament
-
Best in-town sports escape
Hank Haney Golf Center at City Place
-
Best Dallas Cowboy
Emmitt Smith
-
Best Place to Watch a Game
The Lakewood Landing
-
Best Sporting Goods Store
Academy Sports and Outdoors
-
Best Rivalry
Mickey Spagnola vs. Craig Miller
-
Best sports venue
SMU's Gerald J. Ford Stadium
-
Best Sports Talk Show
The Hardline/Dunham and Miller
-
Best place to play Ultimate Frisbee
Village Country Club IM Fields
-
Best unused sports facility
Samuell-Grand Tennis Center
-
Best Sporting Event No One Saw
The U.S. Olympic Triathlon Team Trials in Las Colinas
-
Best Camping Equipment
REI Store
-
Best Beat Writer
Gerry Fraley
-
Best chant
"Ed-die's Bet-ter"
-
Best professional sports coach
Ken Hitchcock, Dallas Stars
-
Best Sports Columnist
Randy Galloway
-
Best Example of Cluelessness
Johnny Oates playing Scott Sheldon in nine positions
-
Best golf course
TPC Las Colinas
-
Best Dallas Maverick
Michael Finley
-
Best Place to Work Out
Premier Athletic Club
-
Best Exorcism
Mark Cuban raising the Mavericks from the dead
-
Best bribe
Belfour's billion-dollar offer
-
Best Dallas Maverick for a day
Gordon Keith
-
Best Dallas athlete with Olympic record-breaking ambition
Michael Johnson
-
Best place to hoop-it-up
SMU's Dedman Gym
-
Best Texas Ranger
Rick Helling
-
Best Dallas Star
Sergei Zubov
-
-
Culture
-
Best Dallas moment
Holding a parade to celebrate the opening of Central Expressway
-
Best District Judge
Judge Merrill Hartman, 192nd District Court
-
Best Actor
Derik Webb, Bless Cricket, Crest Toothpast, and Tommy Tune at the Dallas Children's Theatre
-
Best play with a local setting that you may never see in Dallas
Killer Joe by Tracy Letts
-
Best Intellectual Resource That Needs your support
The Dallas Public Library
-
Best sign that hell has frozen over
The Toadies' second album is finished
-
Best Reason Only Johnny Cash Should Be Allowed to Sing Johnny Cash Songs
Colin Boyd
-
Best open-mike poetry
Sankofa Arts Cafe
-
Best closet-sized art gallery
Annex Gallery
-
Best movie theater
Cinemark 17
-
Best Radio talk show
Glenn Mitchell, weekdays at noon on KERA-FM 90.1
-
Best Actress
Beverly May, Mrs. Klein
-
Best Campaign Line
Councilman James Fantroy
-
Best art museum
Dallas Museum of Art
-
Best Place to Introduce Children to Theater
Le Theatre de Marionette
-
Best Impromptu Performance by an actor
Bruce DuBose displays his, um, artistic temperament
-
Best Place to Attend a non-stuffy book-signing
Dick's Last Resort
-
Best Road Trip for Bookworms
Recycled Books & Records
-
Best evidence that the local music scene is better than Austin's (Despite what Texas Monthly says)
-
Best half-assed attempt to support local music
D's special local music issue in April
-
Best Dallas chanteuse
Drenda Barnett
-
Best African-American art gallery
Beaujour Galerie Des Beaux Arts
-
Best children's art school
J's Art Studio
-
Best visual artist
Nic Nicosia
-
Best place to find arcane videos
Forbidden Books
-
Best Radio DJ
Barry Switzer, "Football All the Way," Thursday at 6 p.m., KTCK-AM 1310
-
Best gadfly Web Site
Sharon Boyd's "It's a Bad Deal," www.dallasarena.com
-
Best Local TV News Show
Weeknight broadcasts on KTVT-TV Channel 11
-
Best Reason for An Appointed Judiciary
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
-
Best Director
Preston Lane
-
Best Band Comeback
Union Camp
-
Best proof that Texas Monthly might be right
-
Best threat to Sam Paulos' empire
ACME CD Manufacturing Co.,
-
Best threat to Sam Paulos' empire (Part II)
Last Beat music complex
-
Best place to see a living legend
Al Dupree at The Balcony Club
-
Best Public Sculpture
Pegasus, Farmers Market
-
Best elementary school
Stonewall Jackson Elementary
-
Best art gallery
You gotta be kidding
-
Best newspaper columnist
Timothy O'Leary, The Dallas Morning News
-
Best TV Journalist
Brett Shipp on WFAA Channel 8
-
Best city council member
James Fantroy
-
Best Political Gaffe
City council members wade into deep doo-doo
-
Best Theater Classes for Kids
Richardson Centre Theatre's Family Theatre
-
Best Production, Best Director
Inexpressible Island, Dallas Theatre Center; Preston Lane, Director
-
Best Improv Comedy Troupe
Section 8
-
Best local music fans
The Chomsky Army
-
Best Band Name (Once You Know What It Means)
The Lucky Pierres
-
Best Dallas businessman
Lou Reese
-
Best Online PR Stunt
dotcomguy
-
Best new museum
The Women's Museum
-
Best IMAX theater (tie)
Cinemark 17 & The Science Place
-
Best radio station
Magic 102.1-FM "Jammin' Oldies"
-
Best theater company
Wingspan Theatre
-
Best Gadfly/Activist
Anne Carlson, Dallas County chair, Common Cause Texas
-
Best place for foreign and indie films (tie)
Inwood Theatre & United Artists Cine
-
Best TV News Anchor
Gloria Campos, WFAA Channel 8
-
-
Food
-
Best new restaurant
Voltaire
-
Best lesbian drink
The Redheaded Slut at Sue Ellen's
-
Best quail
Il Solé Restaurant & Wine Bar
-
Best Jack and Coke
Bar of Soap Bar
-
Best pasta to go
Corner Bakery
-
Best breakfast
Bread Winners Bakery & Café
-
Best place to buy a peach
Hunter's at the Farmers Market
-
Best Place to eat alone
La Madeleine French Bakery and Café
-
Best feta cheese selection
World Food Warehouse
-
Best steak
Pappas Bros. Steakhouse
-
Best cheap dinner
Bangkok Inn
-
Best rooftop patio
Milkbar
-
Best view
Chaparral Club in the Adams Mark Hotel
-
Best barbecue restaurant
North Main Bar-B-Q
-
Best Indian restaurant
Swarna Palace Indian Cuisine
-
Best interior restaurant garden
Bread Winners Bakery and Café
-
Best salad bar
Texas de Brazil
-
Best mussels
Daddy Jack's Wood Grill
-
Best fancy restaurant
Abacus
-
Best spaghetti & meatballs
Raneri's
-
Best chocolate chip cookie (tie)
J.D.'s Chippery & Great Harvest Bread Co.
-
Best romantic restaurant
Lola
-
Best apple turnover
The Mixing Bowl Bakery
-
Best wine list
Jeroboam
-
Best home cooking
Traci's Restaurant
-
Best cinammon roll
A&J Bakery
-
Best sushi
Yokohama Sushi
-
Best stew
Guinness Stew, Emerald Mist Restaurant & Pub
-
Best margarita
Don Pablo's
-
Best duck
Citizen
-
Best Turkish atmosphere
Café Istanbul
-
Best dip
Tramontana's Absolut pepper diablo sauce
-
Best fusion foray
Chow Thai Pacific Rim
-
Best ceviche
Ciudad D.F.
-
Best pancakes
The Landmark at the Melrose Hotel
-
Best seafood restaurant
S & D Oyster Company
-
Best wrap
Wall Street Deli
-
Best gnocchi
Mangia e Bevi
-
Best produce (tie)
Farmers Market & Groceryworks.com
-
Best middle eastern restaurant
Basha Mediterranean Restaurant
-
Best burritos
Chipotle Mexican Grill
-
Best patio
Patrizio
-
Best Chinese (tie)
Caravelle Chinese & Vietnamese and Tong's House of Richardson
-
Best late-night restaurant
Fishbowl
-
Best Texas salad
Cowboy Cobb, Star Canyon
-
Best hangover recuperation spot
John's Café
-
Best Chain
Mondo's
-
Best Greek restaurant
Kostas Café
-
Best ready-made party dip
BLT at Marty's Cafe TuGogh
-
Best biddy-gut appetizer
Chicken-liver mousse, Charolais Steakhouse
-
Best Thai restaurant
Best Thai
-
Best ice cream
Marble Slab Creamery
-
Best all-American diner/lunch spot
Guthrie's Historical American Restaurant
-
Best smoothie
Smoothie King
-
Best dumplings
Tabil spiced pork dumplings, The Landmark at the Melrose Hotel
-
Best Manhattan
The Bar at The Mansion on Turtle Creek
-
Best po' boy
Maguire's Regional Cuisine's Catfish Po Boy
-
Best hamburger (tie)
Angry Dog & Jake's Old Fashioned Burgers and Beer
-
Best dressed-to-kill restaurant
Avanti Euro Bistro
-
Best fried chicken
Babe's Chicken Dinner House
-
Best crab (and otherwise) cakes
Sweet Temptations Bakery & Café
-
Best bong
Royal Spice Thai Bistro's, Bong Bong Chicken
-
Best lemonade
La Madeleine French Bakery & Café
-
Best pho
Pho Saigon
-
Best cake by the slice
Dallas Affairs Cake Co.
-
Best cup of coffee
Einstein's Bagels
-
Best arena food
Turkey leg at the Ballpark in Arlington
-
Best bagel (tie)
Einstein Bros. Bagels & Gilbert's New York Delicatessen
-
Best mojito
Samba Room
-
Best Vietnamese coffee
East Wind
-
Best whole fish
Fishbowl
-
Best Italian restaurant
Salve! Ristorante
-
Best out of towner
Casa Del Lago
-
Best sushi to go
Tom Thumb Food & Pharmacy
-
Best neighborhood restaurant
Suze
-
Best beer cheese soup
Flying Saucer Draught Emporium
-
Best Oak Lawn Restaurant
Marco Italian
-
Best pub grub
The Old Monk
-
Best crème brûlée
The Green Room
-
Best martini
Parigi
-
Best ice cream flavor
Coconut-banana at Marble Slab Creamery
-
Best muffaletta
Crescent City Café,
-
Best appetizer
Abacus Spoons
-
Best frozen concoction that's not a margarita
Cuba Libre's Island Mojo
-
Best foie gras
Voltaire
-
Best place to buy a vegan birthday cake
Cosmic Café,
-
Best gulab jamun
India Palace Restaurant and Bar
-
Best restaurant for kids
Purple Cow
-
Best salsa
Mis Cazuelas
-
Best dessert
Salve! Ristorante
-
Best bean dip
Cuba Libre Café
-
Best falafel
Café Med
-
Best exotic restaurant
Tei Tei Robata Bar
-
Best lunch deal (tie)
Nuevo Leon & Monica's Aca y Alla
-
Best tapas
Café Madri
-
Best piece of meat
Star Canyon
-
Best french fries
We Oui
-
Best Mexican restaurant
Ciudad D.F.
-
Best place to chill out
Café Brazil
-
Best piece of catfish
Texana Grill
-
Best queso
Matt's Rancho Martinez
-
Best new bistro
Yumeya Sushi Bistro
-
Best fried shrimp for under $6
Rockfish
-
Best place to get in a food fight
EatZi's
-
Best bell pepper
Raneri's
-
Best doughnuts
Mustang Donuts
-
Best sandwiches
Hungreez Deli & Pizza Pies
-
Best pizza
Brother's Pizza
-
Best wait staff
Maguire's Regional Cuisine
-
Best brunch
Ziziki's
-
-
Market
-
Best place to buy women's perfume
Sephora
-
Best card shop (tie)
Gifted | Nuvo
-
Best costume shop (tie)
Dallas Costume Shoppe & Norcostco Texas Costume
-
Best place for great junk bargains
Sarah's Thrift Store
-
Best custom frame shop
Frame Master
-
Best place to rent party equipment
Ducky Bob's Party Rental
-
Best plant nursery
Redenta's Organic Garden Centers
-
Best women's clothing
Arden B
-
Best music browsing mecca
CD Source
-
Best place to upgrade your garden
Sticks & Stones Garden Market
-
Best place to buy a thong
Spotlite Lingerie
-
Best obscure movie rental nook
Alternative Videos
-
Best handmade tortilla, soft drink, and voodoo market
Super Mercado Mexico
-
Best dry cleaners
Dee & Hattie Cleaners
-
Best place to find a gift for someone you barely know
Talulah
-
Best place to rent a car (tie)
Enterprise Rent-A-Car in Richardson & Rent-A-Wreck
-
Best CD store (used)
CD World
-
Best independent book store
Maxwell Books
-
Best revival of a shopping center
Wynnewood Village
-
Best rocks
Banks Stone Service Inc.
-
Best health food store (tie)
Whole Foods Market & Roy's Natural Market
-
Best place to get a pet
SPCA of Texas
-
Best hair colorist
The Beauty Store and Salon
-
Best way to get to Vegas
Legend Airlines
-
Best shopping center name in the Internet era
TheWebb@LBJ
-
Best florist
Dr. Delphinium Designs
-
Best place to spend money
Highland Park Village
-
Best place to buy old Life magazines
Forestwood Antique Mall
-
Best place to buy a formal gown
Stanley Korshak
-
Best grocery store for last- minute wine and flowers
Kroger in Oak Lawn
-
Best business start-up likely to kick butt
NextJet
-
Best women's re-sale clothing
Revente
-
Best barber
Medallion Barbers
-
Best toy store
Lakeshore Learning Store
-
Best place to buy fine china
The Ivy House
-
Best furniture store
Gabbert's Furniture Outlet
-
Best place to buy candles
Er' Go Outlet
-
Best hair salon
Hairs the End
-
Best place to buy gifts for vintage freaks and gadget geeks
Restoration Hardware
-
Best auto body shop
American Collision
-
Best way to build a fish pond on a balcony
Recycled wine barrel halves from Lowe's Home Improvement Warehouse
-
Best hardware store
Ace Hardware of Plano
-
Best place to decorate a rat packstyle pad
Cool Junk
-
Best place to buy a bra
The Maddox Shop
-
Best oriental rug cleaning
Oriental Rug Cleaning Co.
-
Best head shop
Pipe Dream
-
Best veterinary clinic
East Dallas Veterinary Clinic
-
Best place to view capitalism at its finest
Hebron Highway between Preston and Midway Roads
-
Best urban oasis shopping experience
The Urban Gardener
-
Best place for kids' shoes
Stride Rite
-
Best computer store
Best Buy
-
Best place to buy men's cologne
Neiman Marcus
-
Best place to buy picture frames
Wolf Camera & Video
-
Best handyman
Tommy Snider
-
Best scrapbook supply store
Scrappy's
-
Best car wash
Forest Car Wash
-
Best source to help you get the GQ look
David Mills at Neiman Marcus
-
Best place to buy DVDs
Movie Trading Co.
-
Best men's clothing store (tie)
Culwell & Son and Bachrach
-
Best comic book shop (tie)
Cosmic Comics and Cards & Titan Comics
-
Best place to window shop
Deco-Dence
-
Best kids' haircut
Stride Rite (ask for Ginger in the back)
-
Best place to buy chic furnishings on a not-so-chic budget (tie)
Crate & Barrel Outlet and Target
-
Best new bookstore
Borders Books Music & Café
-
Best new liquor store
The Liquor Shoppe: Hops, Barley & Grapes
-
Best place to buy salvaged parts for your home
Alexander's Salvage
-
Best liquor store
Centennial Liquor Store
-
Best place to buy ribbons, trim, and other stuff to make a hat
Milliners Supply Co.
-
Best place to get your tennis racket strung
Star Tennis
-
Best place to buy a firearm
First Call Firearms Sales
-
Best dog trainer
Best Behavior
-
Best video store
Premiere Video
-
Best place to learn to ride
Capricorn Equestrian Center
-
Best outlet shopping
Dillard's Clearance Center
-
Best kids' clothing store
Chocolate Soup
-
Best fashion shoe store for men and women
Sole Kitchen
-
Best ethnic jewelers
Aarti Jewelers
-
Best place to buy gift-wrap
Papyrus
-
Best interior-design guru
Richard Schrade
-
Best personal coach
Drue Gawel
-
Best immigration lawyer
Fernando Dubove
-
Best antique store
Snider Plaza Antiques
-
Best tattoo parlor
Pair O'Dice Tattoo
-
Best magazine stand
Superstand
-
Best place to buy juice
Whole Foods Market
-
Best kids bookstrore
Enchanted Forest
-
Best CD store (new)
Good Records
-
Best used bookstore
Half Price Books Records & Magazines
-
Best way to spend $20 in four minutes
Helicopter ride by DFW Helitours
-
Best private pre-school
Westminster Presbyterian Pre-School and Kindergarten
-
Best place to buy canned food
Fiesta Mart
-
Best one-hour film developing
Colorfast Photos
-
Best local tour of the Middle East
Worldwide Food, Inc.
-
Best discount clothing store
The Nordstrom Rack
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Best travel agency
The Travel Bureau
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Best gardening store
North Haven Gardens
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Best clothes for Plano moms
Harold's
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Scenes
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Best comeback for a venue
Hard Rock Café
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Best neighborhood
Little Forest Hills
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Best place to read a newspaper
Coffee Haus
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Best place to walk on water
Leonhardt Lagoon
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Best place to beat the heat
Hurricane Harbor
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Best jazz club
Sambuca
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Best rock bar
The Rock,
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Best place to kick it with bikers
The Blue Goose
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Best urban street-side patio dining
Thai Soon
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Best Place to Jog
White Rock Lake
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Best honky tonk
Country 2000
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Best Bowling Alley
AMF Richardson Lanes
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Best bar name
The now-defunct Beer Goggles in Deep Ellum
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Best piano bar
After Dark
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Best place to throw a bridal shower
S&S Tea Room
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Best name for an auto dealer
Topless Motors
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Best scenic drive
Van Zandt County
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Best place to go on a day trip (tie)
Fossil Rim Wildlife Center & Mt. Carmel Center
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Best place for a piñata party
Under the gnarly live oak trees at Tietze Park, on Skillman Streets in East Dallas, bounded by Llano and Vanderbilt streets
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Best place to race illegally
Intersections of Parker and Independence, Coit and Park, Plano
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Best blues club
Blue Cat Blues
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Best Tejano club
Tejano West
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Best place to feel at one with Deep Ellum
Boyd Gallery
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Best family outing on a summer weekday
The Dallas Arboretum
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Best beer joint
The Ginger Man
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Best way to get to the zoo
DART Rail, (214) 979-1111
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Best place to go on monday nights
The Cavern
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Best place to drink icy cold beer during the day
Ship's Lounge
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Best revolving sign
Raven's Prescription Pharmacy
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Best place to forget you're in Oak Cliff
Kessler Park
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Best rainy-day activity with the kids
Bass Pro Shops Outdoor World
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Best outing with the kids
Dallas Museum of Art
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Best morning stroll
White Rock Lake from the spillway at Garland Road and White Rock Drive or from the old boat house at West Lawther Drive near Williamson and White Rock roads
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Best place to watch amateur inline hockey
Slapshots Inline Arena
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Best alternative club
Trees
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Best bar for smokers
Lakewood Landing
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Best place to meet computer geeks
Main Street Internet
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Best place for a kid's party
Dallas Puppet Theater
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Best place to (pseudo) rave
One
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Best place to save the world during the spin cycle
Bar of Soap
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Best billiards
Cuckoo's Nest
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Best live music venue
Gypsy Tea Room
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Best tragic place to invite more tragedy
Dealey Plaza
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Best place to read poetry
Restland Funeral Home
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Best playground
Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children
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Best evening stroll
Swiss Avenue
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Best place to watch softball games
Softball World
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Best Irish bar
The Dubliner
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Best dance club
Lizard Lounge
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Best gay bar
The Crew's Inn
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Best place to commune with nature
White Rock Lake
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Best place to annoy pedestrians in Deep Ellum
The valet stand at the Green Room
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Best Place to Roller Skate
White Rock Skate
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Best lesbian bar
Buddies II
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Best frat scene
The Beagle
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Best way to curb your anger
Target Master Indoor Shooting Center and Gun Store
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Best place for downtown yuppies to take their kids
America's Ice Garden Ice Rink
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Best place for a romantic rendezvous
Hotel St. Germain
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Sports
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Best sports moment of 2000
Darryl Sydor crawls across the ice
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Best Bicycle Equipment
Richardson Bike Mart
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Best Feel-Good Story in Local Sports
Tim Seder
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Best guy from whom to score
Michael Irvin
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Best TV Sports Anchor
Dale Hansen
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Best sports spectator experience
MasterCard Colonial Golf Tournament
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Best in-town sports escape
Hank Haney Golf Center at City Place
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Best Dallas Cowboy
Emmitt Smith
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Best Place to Watch a Game
The Lakewood Landing
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Best Sporting Goods Store
Academy Sports and Outdoors
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Best Rivalry
Mickey Spagnola vs. Craig Miller
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Best sports venue
SMU's Gerald J. Ford Stadium
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Best Sports Talk Show
The Hardline/Dunham and Miller
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Best place to play Ultimate Frisbee
Village Country Club IM Fields
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Best unused sports facility
Samuell-Grand Tennis Center
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Best Sporting Event No One Saw
The U.S. Olympic Triathlon Team Trials in Las Colinas
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Best Camping Equipment
REI Store
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Best Beat Writer
Gerry Fraley
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Best chant
"Ed-die's Bet-ter"
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Best professional sports coach
Ken Hitchcock, Dallas Stars
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Best Sports Columnist
Randy Galloway
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Best Example of Cluelessness
Johnny Oates playing Scott Sheldon in nine positions
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Best golf course
TPC Las Colinas
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Best Dallas Maverick
Michael Finley
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Best Place to Work Out
Premier Athletic Club
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Best Exorcism
Mark Cuban raising the Mavericks from the dead
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Best bribe
Belfour's billion-dollar offer
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Best Dallas Maverick for a day
Gordon Keith
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Best Dallas athlete with Olympic record-breaking ambition
Michael Johnson
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Best place to hoop-it-up
SMU's Dedman Gym
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Best Texas Ranger
Rick Helling
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Best Dallas Star
Sergei Zubov
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