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Last Chance to Nominate Your Local Favorites

Patch's new Readers' Choice Contest continues. Simply sign in and tell us your favorites by July 9. The top nominees will be included in the run-off poll, with a final winner to be announced in August.

Patch is compiling the 2012 Best of the Best in a special edition of our popular Readers' Choice contest. 

The perfect pizza? Tell us. Love your bartender, your mechanic, your veterinarian? Click on a category below and nominate them. Know the best park for kids? Don't dare keep that information to yourself. 

We're asking our readers to nominate their favorites in four categories by July 9. Tell us what you can't live without. WE WANT TO KNOW, and so do your neighbors!

After the nomination period closes, voting will begin July 23, with winners being announced in August.

The categories:

Food & Drink

Best Kids Menu

Best Pizza 

Best Mexican Restaurant

Best Milkshake or Smoothie

Best Bar/Pub

Best Bartender

Best Happy Hour

Best Selection of Beers on Tap

Best Cocktail

Best Fresh Seafood

Best Sushi

Best Coffee Shop

Services

Best Day Care

Best Pre-school

Best Veterinarian

Best Auto Mechanic

Health & Beauty

Best Hair Salon

Best Nail Salon

Best Massage

Shopping/Entertainment/Fun

Best Liquor Store

Best Clothing Boutique

Best Art Gallery

Best Place to Hear Live Music

Best Grocery Store/Supermarket

Best Park

Just click on the categories above to start nominating businesses now. 

Own a business? Nominate your own. And while you are at it, make sure your directory listing is up to date. (Just click on the Directory tab at the top of this page to find it.) We'll link to it. We promise.

And don’t forget to tell your friends on Facebook, Twitter and email!

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Just a short thought to get the word out quickly about anything in your neighborhood.
Share something with your neighbors. Write a new post... What's up? Make an announcement, speak your mind, or sell something
Paul M. J. Suchecki May 15, 2013 at 01:54 pm
Let me clarify: All I tried to do was re-link to the video that was dumped when Patch revised itsRead More format. The Festival of the Chariots won't be coming to Venice for months.
Linda Lucks July 31, 2011 at 05:24 pm
One year, long ago, Alice Coltrane performed. Anyone know the year? Definitely in the 70's.