| Best new trend
1. Scooters/Vespas
2. Big sunglasses
3. Lowrider bikes
Worst new trend
1. ’80s fashion
2. Yoga clothes as streetwear
3. Gang violence
Best kept Calgary secret
1. Inglewood
2. The people
3. Heavy metal scene
Worst intersection
1. Glenmore Trail & Elbow Drive
2. Memorial Drive & Deerfoot Trail
3. 17th Avenue and 14th Street S.W.
Most interesting structure
1 Calgary Tower
2. Saddledome
3. Lougheed House
Coolest place to take visitors
1 Calgary Zoo
2. Calgary Stampede
3. 17th Avenue S.W
Best public art
1. Family of Man (CBE)
2. Stephen Avenue "trees"
3. Dove mural on CUPS building
Best graffiti
1. Behind Broken City
2. Behind the Source (17th Avenue S.W.)
3. ACAD stairwell
Biggest eyesore
1. Calgary Tower
2. Stephen Avenue "trees"
3. East Village
Best view of the city
1. Scotsman’s Hill
2. Calgary Tower
3. Crescent Road
Best neighbourhood to live in
1. Marda Loop
2. Mission
3. Kensington
Best park
1. Prince’s Island Park
2. Fish Creek Provincial Park
3. Nose Hill Park
Best place to ride your bike
1. Bow River pathways
2. Fish Creek Provincial Park
3. Nose Hill Park
Best place to go for a stroll
1. 17th Avenue S.W.
2. Prince’s Island Park
3. Fish Creek Provincial Park
Best toboggan hill
1. St. Andrew’s Heights
2. Nose Hill Park
3. Lake Sundance
Best place to take your dog
1. Nose Hill Park
2. River Park
3. Fish Creek Provincial Park
Best place to read
1. Prince’s Island Park
2. Devonian Gardens
3. Chapters
Best place for a picnic
1. Prince’s Island Park
2. Bowness Park
3. Fish Creek Provincial Park
Most romantic place for a first kiss
1. Prince’s Island Park
2. Crescent Road
3. The Calgary Tower
Best pick-up spot
1. Melrose Café & Bar
2. 17th Avenue S.W.
3. Cowboys
Best place to see someone’s gonch
1. Cowboys
2. 17th Avenue S.W.
3. Prince’s Island Park
Best public place to get naked
1. 17th Avenue S.W.
2. Prince’s Island Park
3. Cowboys
Best place to people-watch
1. 17th Avenue S.W.
2. Calgary Stampede
3. Stephen Avenue Walk
Best place to get high
1. 17th Avenue S.W.
2. Calgary Tower
3. Nose Hill Park
Best parkade/lot
1. Chinook Centre
2. Bankers’ Hall
3. City of Calgary Municipal Building
Best local cause
1. The Mustard Seed
2. Children’s Hospital
3. Humane Society
Calgary’s claim to shame
1. Ralph Klein
2. Calgary Stampede
3. Urban sprawl
Best use of local tax dollars
1. Public transport/LRT
2. Roads
3. The arts
Worst use of local tax dollars
1. Trips for city councillors
2. Road expansion
3. Traffic calming devices
Best radio station
1. CJSW 90.9 FM
2. CJAY 92 FM
3. VIBE 98.5 FM
Best television station
1. A-Channel
2. Global
3. CFCN
Best art gallery
1. Glenbow Museum
2. Skew Gallery
3. TRUCK Gallery
Best dance company
1. Decidedly Jazz Danceworks
2. Alberta Ballet
3. The Young Canadians
Best theatre company
1. One Yellow Rabbit
2. Alberta Theatre Projects
3. Theatre Calgary
Best art house movie theatre
1. Uptown Stage and Screen
2. The Globe
3. The Plaza
Most comfortable cinema
1. Paramount Chinook
2. Sunridge Spectrum
3. Westhills Cinemas
Best area ski hill
1. Lake Louise
2. Sunshine Village
3. Canada Olympic Park
Best golf course
1. Shaganappi Point Golf Course
2. Glencoe Golf & Country Club
3. Maple Ridge Golf Course
Best casino
1. Elbow River Casino
2. Frank Sisson’s Silver Dollar Casino
3. Cash Casino
Best festival
1. Calgary Folk Music Festival
2. Lilac Festival
3. Calgary Stampede
Best free event
1. Lilac Festival
2. Stampede breakfasts
3. Shakespeare in the Park
Best fundraising event
1. Calgary Cares
2. CJSW Funding Drive
3. The Big Rock Eddies
Best cup of coffee
1. Starbucks
2. Tim Horton’s
3. Caffe Beano
Coolest washroom
1. Earls Bankers’ Hall
2. Cactus Club Café
3. Joey Tomato’s Mediterranean Grill
Worst washroom
1. Ship & Anchor
2. The Night Gallery
3. The Back Alley
Most beloved Calgarian
1. Darr Maqbool
2. Ralph Klein
3. Jarome Iginla
Most embarrassing Calgarian
1. Ralph Klein
2. Stephen Harper
3. Rob Anders
Best corporate citizen
1. Clive Beddoe
2. Ed McNally
3. The Forzani brothers
Most active activist
1. Stephen Lock
2. Grant Krieger
3. Jarome Iginla
Politician you’d fire first
1. Ralph Klein
2. Paul Martin
3. Stephen Harper
Sexiest man
1. Dave Kelly
2. Jarome Iginla
3. Jesse Cumming
Sexiest woman
1. Tara McCool
2. Su-Ling Goh
3. Nirmala Naidoo
Best-dressed Calgarian
1. Tara McCool
2. Dave Bronconnier
3. Su-Ling Goh
Worst-dressed Calgarian
1. Darr Maqbool
2. Ralph Klein
3. Darrel Janz
Favourite local TV personality
1. Darr Maqbool
2. Dave Kelly
3. Tara McCool
Favourite local radio personality
1. Gerry Forbes
2. Red Dawg
3. Kevin Brooker & Grant Burns
Best journalist/writer
1. Martin Morrow
2. Mike Bell
3. John Gilchrist
Best local actor/actress
1. Michael Green
2. Barbara Gates Wilson
3. Ryan Luhning
Best local band
1. Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir
2. Chad Van Galen
3. The Mocking Shadows
Best athlete
1. Jarome Iginla
2. Kyle Shewfelt
3.. Mike Commodore
Best local author
1. Cheryl Foggo
2. Suzette Mayr
3. Will Ferguson
Best panhandler
1. Dennis in Kensington
2. The Red Beard Guy
3. The Guy at 6th Avenue & 2nd Street
Best shopping district
1. 17th Avenue S.W.
2. Kensington
3. Inglewood
Best corner store
1. A&A Foods & Deli
2. Kalamata Grocery
3. Lang’s
Best place to rescue cool junk
1. Value Village
2. Inglewood
3. Garage Sales
Best outdoor/sports gear shop
1. Mountain Equipment Co-op
2. Ribtor
3. Sport Chek
Best surplus store
1. Crown Surplus
2. Ribtor
3. Army & Navy
Best snowboard/skateboard shop
1. The Source
2. Mission Snowboards & Skateboards
3. Skaters Sport Shop
Best ski shop
1. Ski Cellar
2. Abominable Ski Shop
3. Techno Sport
Best bike shop
1. The Bike Shop
2. Bow Cycle & Sport
3. Ridley’s Cycle
Best indie CD store
1. Megatunes
2. Sloth
3. Hot Wax
Best chain CD store
1. HMV
2. A&B Sound
3. Play Entertainment
Best place to buy vinyl
1. Recordland
2. Hot Wax
3. Sloth Records
Best indie bookstore
1. Pages Books on Kensington
2. McNally Robinson
3. Wee Book Inn
Best used bookstore
1. Fair’s Fair
2. Wee Book Inn
3. Baskerville Books
Best magazine selection
1. Chapters
2. With The Times
3. Daily Globe News Shop
Best comics store
1. Phoenix Comics
2. Another Dimension
3. Words & Pictures
Best indie video/DVD store
1. Casablanca
2. Bird Dog Alternative Video
3. DVD Now
Best electronics/computer store
1. Future Shop
2. Best Buy
3. Memory Express
Best place to find furniture
1. IKEA
2. The Brick
3. Urban Barn
Best men’s clothing store
1. Henry
2. Purr
3. Giant 45
Best women’s clothing store
1. Purr
2. Holt Renfrew
3. Zara
Best club wear
1. Le Chateau
2. Giant 45
3. Purr
Best lingerie
1. La Senza
2. The Cat’s Pyjamas
3. La Vie En Rose
Best fetish wear/sex shop
1. Barbie’s Shop
2. B&D Emporium
3. MisChiff’s Closet
Best consignment/vintage clothing
1. Blue Light Special
2. Trend Clothing
3. The Pendulum
Best shoe store
1. Gravity Pope
2. Aldo
3. Payless ShoeSource
Best place to find cool jewelry
1. Rubaiyat
2. Purr
3. Le Chateau
Best optical
1. 17th Avenue Specs
2. The Brass Monocle
3. Eye-Q on Kensington
Best pet store
1. Petland
2. Pet Planet
3. Pet Cetera
Best toy store
1. Toys ‘R’ Us
2. Livingston & Cavell Extraordinary Toys
3. Discovery Hut
Best flower shop
1. Anne Paterson’s Flowers
2. Flowers Make Memories
3. Peaseblossoms
Best international food store
1. T&T Supermarket
2. Lina’s Italian Market
3. Mercato Foods
Best natural foods store
1. Community Natural Foods
2. Planet Organic
3. Sunterra Market
Best farmers’ market
1. Calgary Farmers’ Market
2. Crossroads Markets
3. Millarville Market
Best deli
1. Spolumbo’s Fine Foods & Deli
2. Sunterra Market
3. Lina’s Italian Market
Best bagel
1. Great Canadian Bagel
2. Wayne’s Bagels
3. Tim Horton’s
Best bakery
1. Eiffel Tower Bakery
2. Glamorgan Bakery
3. Manuel Latruwe Belgian Patisserie and Bread Shop
Best cool treat on a hot day
1. Fiasco Gelato
2. 7-11 Slurpee
3. Dairy Queen
Best liquor store
1. Royal Liquor Merchants
2. Willow Park Wine & Spirits
3. Real Canadian Superstore
Best wine shop
1. Kensington Wine Market
2. Willow Park Wine & Spirits
3. Metrovino
Best fitness facility
1. Talisman Centre
2. Eau Claire YMCA
3. Heavens Fitness
Best place for yoga
1. Yoga Passage
2. Bodhi Tree
3. Bikram Yoga College of Indian
Best barber
1. Razor’s Edge
2. Chinook Barber & Styling
3. Kuts
Best hair salon
1. Red Bloom Salon
2. Hedkandi
3. Swizzlesticks Salonspa
Best place to get pampered
1. Swizzlesticks Salonspa
2. Stillwater Spa
3. Genesis Body Care Studio
Best tattoo parlour
1. Smilin’ Buddha Tattoo
2. Bushido
3. Eternal Image
Best piercing shop
1. Bushido
2. To The Point
3. Divine
Best laundromat
1. O’Henry Laundromat
2. Pink Elephant
3. The Wash House
Best dry cleaner
1. Fishman’s Personal Care Cleaners
2. Newton’s Fine Dry Cleaning
3. Royal Cleaners
Best local website
1. www.ffwdweekly.com
2. www.calgarymovies.com
3. www.cityofcalgary.com
Best new bar
1. Hifi Club
2. Broken City
3. Twisted Element
Best cocktail bar
1. Bungalow
2. Ming
3. Vicious Circle
Best pub
1. Ship & Anchor
2. Rose & Crown
3. Kensington Pub
Best gay/lesbian bar
1. Twisted Element
2. Detour
3. Boystown
Sexiest clientele
1. Melrose Café & Bar
2. Mynt Ultralounge
3. Cowboys
Best bar to spend the day in
1. Melrose Café & Bar
2. Ship & Anchor
3. Broken City
Best dive bar
1. The Shamrock
2. Ship & Anchor
3. The Cecil Hotel
Best place for karaoke
1. Ducky’s Pub
2. Broken City
3. Twisted Element
Best place to watch sports
1. Melrose Café & Bar
2. Schanks Athletic Club
3. Ship & Anchor
Best place to see exotic dancers
1. The French Maid
2. The Speakeasy
3. The T&C
Best place to shoot pool
1. Melrose Café & Bar
2. Schanks Athletic Club
3. The Garage
Best DJ night
1. Sunday Skool (DJ Rice)
2. Hai Karate
3. Flashlight (Sid and Faust)
Best nightclub
1. Hifi Club
2. The Whiskey
3. Mynt Ultralounge
Best live rock/alternative venue
1. Broken City
2. Hifi Club
3. The Whiskey
Best live jazz/blues venue
1. Beat Niq Jazz and Social Club
2. Kaos
3. Murrieta’s West Coast Bar & Grill
Best live country/folk venue
1. Ironwood Stage & Grill
2. Ranchmans
3. Cowboys Dance Hall
Best bartender
1. Rahim (Melrose Café & Bar)
2. Jeff Williams (Melrose Café & Bar)
3. Arlen Smith (Underground)
Friendliest staff
1. Cactus Club Café
2. Ship & Anchor
3. Broken City
Best vibe
1. Ship & Anchor
2. Hifi Club
3. Broken City
Best patio
1. Melrose Café & Bar
2. Ship & Anchor
3. Broken City
Best beer selection
1. Ship & Anchor
2. Bottlescrew Bill’s
3. Brewsters Brew Pub
Best wine list
1. Murrieta’s West Coast Bar & Grill
2. Cilantro
3. Chicago Chophouse
Best overall restaurant
1. Cactus Club Café
2. Melrose Café & Bar
3. River Café
Best new restaurant
1. The Coup
2. Milestone’s Grill & Bar
3. The Verve
Best restaurant for a first date
1. River Café
2. Cactus Club Café
3. Melrose Café & Bar
Best restaurant atmosphere
1. Melrose Café & Bar
2. River Café
3. Joey Tomato’s Mediterranean Grill
Best service
1. Cactus Club Café
2. Melrose Café & Bar
3. The Coup
Best food at YYC
1. Tim Horton’s
2. Montana’s Restaurant
3. Subway
Best late-night (after 1 a.m.)
1. Wendy’s
2. Wicked Wedge
3. Boston Pizza
Best diner
1. Galaxie Diner
2. Diner Deluxe
3. Belmont Diner
Best pizza
1. Wicked Wedge
2. Papa John’s
3. Boston Pizza
Best nachos
1. Melrose Café & Bar
2. Ship & Anchor
3. Rose & Crown
Best wings
1. Regal Beagle
2. Melrose Café & Bar
3. Earls
Best burger
1. Peters’ Drive-In
2. Burger Inn
3. Ship & Anchor
Best veggie burger
1. Ship & Anchor
2. Burger Inn
3. Harvey’s
Best fries
1. McDonald’s
2. Ship & Anchor
3. New York Fries
Best fish & chips
1. Joey’s Only
2. Ship & Anchor
3. Trawler’s Seafood Kitchen
Best Chinese
1. Silver Dragon
2. Charly Chan Szechuan Restaurant
3. Leo Fu’s Szechwan & Mandarin Restaurant
Best sushi
1. Kyoto 17
2. Hana Sushi
3. Sushi Kawa
Best Thai
1. The King & I
2. Thai Sa On
3. Thai Boat
Best curry
1. Moti Mahal
2. Tandoori Hut
3. Mango Shiva
Best Vietnamese
1. Oriental Phoenix
2. Vietnam Restaurant
3. Co do Vietnamese Restaurant
Best Indian
1. Rajdoot
2. Taj Mahal
3. Moti Mahal
Best Italian
1. Buon Giorno
2. Fiore Cantina Italiano
3. Il Giardino
Best Greek
1. The Broken Plate
2. Pegasus
3. Opa!
Best Mexican
1. Salt & Pepper
2. El Sombrero
3. Julio's Barrio
Best international
1. Aida's Mediterranean Bistro
2. Sultan's Tent
3. Marathon Ethiopian Restaurant
Best vegetarian
1. The Coup
2. Buddha's Veggie Restaurant
3. Anpurna Vegetarian Restaurant
Best steak
1. The Keg
2. Caesar’s Steak House
3. Smuggler’s Inn
Best seafood
1. Catch
2. Red Lobster
3. Cannery Row
Best breakfast
1. Nellie's
2. Diner Deluxe
3. Galaxie Diner
Best dessert
1. The Cheesecake Café
2. Moxie's Restaurant
3. The Chocolate Bar |
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