You would possibly name them the category of 72: the winners of our annual Better of Orlando ballot in six dozen classes.
You would possibly name them the category of 72: the winners of our annual Better of Orlando ballot in six dozen classes. Readers picked their favorites in every little thing from golf programs to tattoo parlors, TV information groups to theater, burgers to bloggers. So dig in!
Eat & Drink
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Greatest Bakery |
Greatest Brunch |
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Greatest Native Espresso |
Greatest Non-Chain Burger |
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Greatest Frozen Deal with |
Greatest Restaurant Downtown |
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Greatest Restaurant on I-Drive |
Greatest Restaurant on Restaurant Row |
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Greatest Restaurant in Winter Park |
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Greatest Restaurant in Seminole County |
Greatest Restaurant to Seal the Deal |
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Greatest Dinner Present |
Greatest Watering Gap |
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Greatest Wine Bar |
Greatest Lodge Lounge |
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Greatest Sports activities Bar |
Greatest Specialty Meals Retailer |
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Greatest Wine Retailer |
Items & Providers
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Greatest Day Spa |
Greatest Exercise Facility/ Health club |
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Greatest Florist |
Greatest Jeweler |
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Greatest Enterprise Lodge |
Greatest Mall |
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Greatest Males’s Clothes Retailer |
Greatest Girls’s Clothes Retailer |
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Greatest Place to Purchase Footwear |
Greatest Hair Salon |
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Greatest Nail Salon |
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Greatest Barbershop |
Greatest Children Daycare |
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Greatest Non-public Faculty, Ok-8 |
Greatest Non-public Faculty, 9-12 |
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Greatest Public Golf Course |
Greatest Non-public Golf Course |
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Greatest Film Theater |
Greatest Native Automotive Seller |
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Greatest Automotive Restore |
Greatest Pool Builder |
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Greatest Inside Designer |
Greatest Chiropractor |
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Greatest Optician/Optometrist |
Greatest Plastic Surgeon |
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Greatest Veterinary Hospital |
Greatest Doggie Daycare |
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Greatest Bicycle Store |
Greatest Tattoo Parlor |
Personalities
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Favourite Athlete |
Favourite Native Performer |
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Favourite Native Coach |
Favourite Neighborhood Chief |
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Favourite Pastor |
Media
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Greatest Native TV Station |
Greatest TV Information Staff |
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Greatest Sportscaster |
Greatest Climate Forecaster |
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Greatest Native Columnist |
Greatest Native Blogger |
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Greatest LOCAL Radio Present |
Greatest Radio Music Station |
Potpourri
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Greatest Native Resort |
Greatest Artwork Gallery |
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Greatest Museum |
Greatest Theater Firm |
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Greatest Leisure Expertise |
Greatest Music Venue |
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Greatest Place to Get Married |
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Greatest Charity Gala |
Greatest Theme Park Experience |
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Greatest Foot Race |
Greatest Farmers Market |
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Greatest Competition |
Greatest Restaurant in Seminole County
Hollerbach’s Willow Tree Café
Whether or not you’re craving a dish of sauerkraut and schnitzel, or wanting a beneficiant pour of an genuine pilsner throughout Oktoberfest, that is the spot that folks within the know advocate for German flavors, and with good purpose. Hollerbach’s has the environment of a German beer corridor, the cheery and really social temper known as Gemütlichkeit, the place fellow diners provide opinions on unfamiliar beers and waitresses ask if they’ll lower up your youngster’s bratwurst (truthfully). House owners Theo and Linda Hollerbach purchased the Willow Tree Café in 2001, bringing household recipes from Köln, Germany. They proceed to serve hen and pork schnitzel, veal sausage and extra, together with greater than 50 ales, lagers, dopplebocks and Hefeweizens, in sizes as much as a 3-liter glass boot. The jokes from the brass band enjoying on most weekends stay as corny as ever and the group fortunately sings alongside simply as loudly.
— Joseph Hayes
Greatest Girls’s Clothes Retailer
Sophie & Trey
Kristin and Ryan Shaw opened this trendy and favored spot in 2009 with a easy however difficult aim: To promote boutique high quality clothes with out the boutique value. “Sophie and Trey is taken from the tagline ‘the place sophistication meets fashionable,’” says Kristin. “There’s something for everyone.” With costs topping out at $70, the ladies’s retail hotspot situated in downtown Lake Mary has boomed since its opening and lately made the transfer to a bigger retailer one block all the way down to accommodate a rise in inventory and prospects.
— Sara Lane
Favourite Native Performer
Tony Brent
Go to tonybrent.com and even the primary web page can have you in stitches as you delve into the lifetime of this native entertainer. All through his profession, Brent has carried out 1000’s of reveals that incorporate guitar parodies, comedy and magic. His best accomplishment is probably the “Outta Management Magic Comedy Dinner Present,” which he has carried out in Orlando for 13 years. “It’s distinctive as a result of it’s an improv comedy present with magic, and the viewers participates,’’ he says. “That makes it totally different each evening.” Aside from the wackiness staged at WonderWorks Orlando, Brent wears one other hat—he writes kids’s books and screenplays.
— Sara Lane
Favourite Native Blogger
Mark Baratelli
Baratelli just about covers all of it at thedailycity.com, which proclaims itself as “Orlando’s biz + developments + weirdness web site.’’ On a current day the write-ups ranged from a Hipster’s Weekend Information to an replace on building of a SunRail station. There are also guides to vogue vehicles, finest frozen yogurt, different Orlando blogs and, after all, meals vehicles (Baratelli is the mastermind behind the native month-to-month Meals Truck Bazaar). The Every day Metropolis has been dishing all of it out since 2007, morphing from an arts/tradition theme to certainly one of city life. “How lengthy we’ve been round makes us distinctive, together with what we cowl, which is native and non-local,’’ Baratelli says. “I’m not against masking something.”
— Sara Lane
Greatest Farmers Market
Winter Park Farmer’s Market
Staged in and across the metropolis’s historic former prepare depot from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. each Saturday, the Winter Park Farmers Market has grown into the number-one plant and produce market in Central Florida. The charming small-town environment and regionally produced merchandise enchantment to all, from households and vacationers to intellectual customers and school college students. Two of the preferred stops: the kettle corn sales space, and the “Butterfly Man’s’’ desk, the place Lorenzo Zayas sells kits containing caterpillars destined for magnificence.
— Sara Lane
