2016 Index of Winners
Best Bridal/Wedding Prep BOA Award Winner
Year » 2016
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Kelly’s Closet
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Best Taxi/Rideshare Service BOA Award Winner
Year » 2016
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Uber (Rideshare Atlanta)
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Best Car Wash BOA Award Winner
Year » 2016
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Avril’s Auto Boutique
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Best Caterer BOA Award Winner
Year » 2016
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Affairs to Remember
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Best CD Store BOA Award Winner
Year » 2016
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Criminal Records
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Best Place for Your Mind, Body and Spirit BOA Award Winner
Year » 2016
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Georgia Spinal Health & Wellness Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2016 » Consumer Culture » Readers Pick
Best Cigar Store BOA Award Winner
Year » 2016
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Highland Cigar Co.
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Best Clothes You Can’t Afford BOA Award Winner
Year » 2016
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Phipps Plaza
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Best Clothing Store BOA Award Winner
Year » 2016
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The Clothing Warehouse
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Best Shoe Store BOA Award Winner
Year » 2016
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Bennie’s Shoes
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Best Comic Book Store BOA Award Winner
Year » 2016
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My Parents’ Basement
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You know the universe is looking out for us when there’s a spot in ATL that has both a great draft list and a great comic book collection. MY PARENTS’ BASEMENT, tucked away in Avondale Estates, is run by comic book vets qualified to steer you in the right direction, whether you’re looking for amore...
You know the universe is looking out for us when there’s a spot in ATL that has both a great draft list and a great comic book collection. MY PARENTS’ BASEMENT, tucked away in Avondale Estates, is run by comic book vets qualified to steer you in the right direction, whether you’re looking for a new series or in the market for a rare issue. Stay on top of their events as artist signings happen often, like one recently with Betty and Veronica writer and artist Adam Hughes. Peruse their collection of more than 1,000 comic books and stay for Nerd Trivia night on Tuesdays. Grab some grub — we’re partial to the shrimp taco plate and Wild Heaven brew.
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Best Comic Book Store BOA Award Winner
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Criminal Records
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Best Consignment Store BOA Award Winner
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Finders Keepers Boutique
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Best Cooking Classes BOA Award Winner
Year » 2016
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The Cook’s Warehouse - East Cobb
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Best Cracked Cellphone Screen Repair BOA Award Winner
Year » 2016
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ScreenFixing
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There’s no bigger brag than saying you’ve never shattered your phone’s screen. For the rest of us who are clumsier than a man with two left feet, there is SCREENFIXING.COM. Once upon a time, these phone-fixing folks operated out of a truck, but they quickly moved into a storefront in East Atlantamore...
There’s no bigger brag than saying you’ve never shattered your phone’s screen. For the rest of us who are clumsier than a man with two left feet, there is SCREENFIXING.COM. Once upon a time, these phone-fixing folks operated out of a truck, but they quickly moved into a storefront in East Atlanta Village due to their increasing popularity. Their customer service during this very difficult time is stellar, and depending on your issue, you can walk in and out with your phone restored to its former glory in less than an hour. If it takes a little longer, that’s A-OK since the waiting area is comfy and the big TV makes you forget about your dumb mistake. Next time your butter fingers destroy your screen, these guys got your back.
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Best Craft Beer Store BOA Award Winner
Year » 2016
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Hop City Craft Beer and Wine - The Krog District
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Best Crossfit BOA Award Winner
Year » 2016
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CrossFit RX
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Best CSA BOA Award Winner
Year » 2016
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Moore Farms & Friends GP
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Best Doggie Day Care BOA Award Winner
Year » 2016
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Barking Hound Village Cheshire
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Best Dry Cleaners BOA Award Winner
Year » 2016
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Sig Samuels Dry Cleaners
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Best Shopping District BOA Award Winner
Year » 2016
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Little Five Points
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You don’t go to LITTLE FIVE POINTS to shop as much as you go to escape. L5P remains the epicenter of quirkiness in a city increasingly swallowed by suburbanization. After 40 years, we tend to take it for granted. But nowhere else in Atlanta replicates its mix of independently owned shops and streetmore...
You don’t go to LITTLE FIVE POINTS to shop as much as you go to escape. L5P remains the epicenter of quirkiness in a city increasingly swallowed by suburbanization. After 40 years, we tend to take it for granted. But nowhere else in Atlanta replicates its mix of independently owned shops and street culture. The range of retail is almost otherworldly — from bougie women’s boutiques (The Pink Zebra, Envy) and dashiki-and-shea-butter shops (Earthtone, Cultural Accents) to second-hand/vintage clothing (Rag-o-Rama, The Clothing Warehouse, Psycho Sisters) and metaphysical/head shops (42 Degrees South, World Piece, Crystal Blue). Three of the city’s top record store institutions call L5P home (Criminal Records, Moods Music, Wax N’ Facts), as does one of the city’s top sneaker boutiques (Wish). Cyclists and skaters are both covered (Outback, Stratosphere). Plus, Junkman’s Daughter has served as weirdo central for so long it’s normal now. Like it or not, the real attraction is located on the sidewalks, where artisans sell their handmade wares, musicians busk for change, homeless hippies solicit, and the man with the headphones and CDs for sale asks everyone who passes by: “Do you like hip-hop?” The day Little Five Points becomes passé, you can stick a fork in this town. www.littlefivepoints.net.
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Best Emerging Clothing Designer BOA Award Winner
Year » 2016
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Paige Nichetté - LUNASOUL Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2016 » Consumer Culture » Readers Pick
Best Cosmetics Store BOA Award Winner
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Marvi Beauty
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Created by a mother-daughter team right here in the city, MARVI BEAUTY is all about natural products handcrafted in small batches. But don’t let that “beauty” part fool you, bros — Marvi also makes products catered directly to dudes. Their beard oil, facial serum, soothing scalp serum, and anti-dandruffmore...
Created by a mother-daughter team right here in the city, MARVI BEAUTY is all about natural products handcrafted in small batches. But don’t let that “beauty” part fool you, bros — Marvi also makes products catered directly to dudes. Their beard oil, facial serum, soothing scalp serum, and anti-dandruff serum come with easy-to-use droppers and are made with all-natural vegan ingredients. They’ve also got you covered via herbal hair oil to give you that “Don Draper of ATL” look. Available at Made Again, 299 N. Highland Ave. N.E., Suite H2. 404-893-0300. www.marvibeauty.com.
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Best Aesthetician BOA Award Winner
Year » 2016
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Van Michael Salon
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Best Flea Market BOA Award Winner
Year » 2016
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Scott Antique Markets, Atlanta
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Best Florist BOA Award Winner
Year » 2016
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Candler Park Flower Mart
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Best Furniture Store BOA Award Winner
Year » 2016
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IKEA
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Best Garden Shop BOA Award Winner
Year » 2016
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Pike Nurseries
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Best Gift Shop BOA Award Winner
Year » 2016
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HomeGrown Decatur
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Best Place for Your Mind, Body and Spirit BOA Award Winner
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Leah Tioxon Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2016 » Consumer Culture » Critics Pick
LEAH TIOXON knows her stuff. Case in point, she’s been working with tarot cards — both here and overseas in places like China — for nearly 20 years. Entering her O4W shared studio space ushers in an immediate sense of calm, followed by an enlightening 45-minute in-person tarot reading session ($45,more...
LEAH TIOXON knows her stuff. Case in point, she’s been working with tarot cards — both here and overseas in places like China — for nearly 20 years. Entering her O4W shared studio space ushers in an immediate sense of calm, followed by an enlightening 45-minute in-person tarot reading session ($45, complete with stones and flickering candles) that aims to center and enlighten you. Guests pull their own cards and have Tioxon interpret what they mean as part of an illuminating dialogue about their future as well as the inner self. Tioxon also offers a variety of other services, from Mediumship Sessions ($75) to Sacral Chakra Openings ($100). Plus, she’s got a masters in social work, which means you can, according to her, “expect some intense spirituality with a heavy helping of practicality.” www.leahtioxon.com.
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Best Gym BOA Award Winner
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Vesta Movement Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2016 » Consumer Culture » Readers Pick
Best Hair Salon BOA Award Winner
Year » 2016
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Salon Skanda
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Best Head Shop BOA Award Winner
Year » 2016
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Forty Two Degrees South
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Best Health Food Store BOA Award Winner
Year » 2016
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Sevananda Natural Foods Market
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Best Place for Your Mind, Body and Spirit BOA Award Winner
Year » 2016
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Kashi Atlanta Urban Yoga Ashram
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Best Homage to Old Atlanta BOA Award Winner
Year » 2016
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Ateaelle’s Old Atlanta sweatshirt Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2016 » Consumer Culture » Critics Pick
Every brand starts with a story. For the proprietors behind urban merch startup Ateaelle (pronounced A-T-L), theirs began with a shirt bearing a concise but profound message. As soon as company founder Kirsten Daniel and her business partner Destiny Stokes released their OLD ATLANTA sweatshirt (alsomore...
Every brand starts with a story. For the proprietors behind urban merch startup Ateaelle (pronounced A-T-L), theirs began with a shirt bearing a concise but profound message. As soon as company founder Kirsten Daniel and her business partner Destiny Stokes released their OLD ATLANTA sweatshirt (also available in tees) nine months ago, it became an instant conversation piece. In a town hell-bent on homogenizing its cultural identity, they’ve joined other homegrown brands in making nostalgia a fashion statement. Daniel’s desire to preserve a sense of the city that raised her in the ’90s has become a calling card for natives and longtime residents who remember when “the ATL” was coded language reserved for cool kids. That subtlety is reflected in the Old Atlanta shirt’s unspoken critique of the rampant gentrification and cultural displacement turning the black mecca into a shell of itself. But it’s more positive proclamation than protest fashion. Whether your favorite era of Atlanta is best represented by Kilo’s booty shake anthems or Dr. King’s hard-fought dream, one size fits all. Just have your A-Town credentials on deck when you wear it or you might get checked. www.ateaelle.com.
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Best Book Store BOA Award Winner
Year » 2016
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Charis Books & More
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Best Jewelry Store BOA Award Winner
Year » 2016
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Worthmore Jewelers - Decatur
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Best Kids’ Clothing Store BOA Award Winner
Year » 2016
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Baby Gap (Atlanta Stores)
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Best Latino Food Market BOA Award Winner
Year » 2016
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Buford Highway Farmers Market
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Best Laundromat BOA Award Winner
Year » 2016
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Blusion Laundry
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Best gay-themed store BOA Award Winner
Year » 2016
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Charis Books & More
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Best Liquor Store BOA Award Winner
Year » 2016
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Decatur Package Store
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You could argue that what makes a liquor store great is volume; the more bottles on the shelves the better. But you’d be wrong. What really makes a liquor store shine is the passion and purpose behind it. More specifically, the people. For more than a decade now, DECATUR PACKAGE STORE owner Herb Chereckmore...
You could argue that what makes a liquor store great is volume; the more bottles on the shelves the better. But you’d be wrong. What really makes a liquor store shine is the passion and purpose behind it. More specifically, the people. For more than a decade now, DECATUR PACKAGE STORE owner Herb Chereck has labored to ensure that his shop is stocked with all manner of world-class beers, wines, and spirits. Armed with encyclopedic knowledge and endless enthusiasm, Chereck and his staff oversee the most thoughtful, diverse, and interesting booze selection in town all while maintaining an air of unpretentious approachability. Here you’ll find all the big name brands as well as trendy bottles of bitters, amaros, and esoteric spirits. There’s a growing selection of craft sake and shochu, and Decatur Package boasts one of the most robust value wine portfolios in town. Whether you’re looking to impress your foodie friends with fancy cocktails or just looking for a great bottle of red to drink with dinner, Decatur Package has your back.
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Best Liquor Store BOA Award Winner
Year » 2016
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Green’s Beverages - Ponce De Leon
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Best Local Accessories Maker BOA Award Winner
Year » 2016
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Margaret Vera Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2016 » Consumer Culture » Readers Pick
Best Local Boutique BOA Award Winner
Year » 2016
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Squash Blossom Boutique
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Best Local Craft Market BOA Award Winner
Year » 2016
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Indie Craft Experience
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Best Local Jewelry Maker BOA Award Winner
Year » 2016
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Fossil & Hide
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Best Local Menswear Designer BOA Award Winner
Year » 2016
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Sid Mashburn
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Best Local Print Shop BOA Award Winner
Year » 2016
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Mindzai Creative
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