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- Best Place for a Cat Person to Endlessly Gush Over Felines
- Best Storage Unit If You Just Need a Place To Stash Stuff Cheap
- Best Used Musical Gear
- Best Place to Liquidate Your Old-Timey Media Collection
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- Best Little Sewing Shop for Unicorn Costume Supplies
- Best Celebration of Vinyl
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- Best Hype that Proved to Be Overblown
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- Best Wrap-Tastic Restaurateur to Return to Work
- Best Use of Bacon
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- Best Butcher to Hang it Up (But Who Will Be Sorely Missed)
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- Best Restaurant We Wish Would Stop Changing Their Concept
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- Best $10 Lunch-and-Workout Special
- Best Bottled Beer Selection (Bar or Restaurant)
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- Best New Restaurant in Mt. Pleasant
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- Best Downtown Bar
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- Best Place to Stare into the Stenciled Face of Guy Fieri
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- Best New Burger Night
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- Best Place to Stand in Line for 30 Minutes on Half-Price Burger Night (and Still Be Glad You Did)
- Best Ceviche
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- Best Upscale Take on Mexican Street Food
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