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  • 2012 Winner
    Best Ice Cream in Miami
    1626 Michigan Ave.
    It's a small shop just off Lincoln Road. In fact, it's very easy to miss the Frieze. But that would be a real shame, because it makes the best ice cream in town. Everything is homemade using 16 percent buttercream. The Frieze produces it all witho...
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    5 months ago
  • 2012 Winner
    Best Bartender in Miami
    2727 Indian Creek Drive
    Like a cocktail, there's a recipe for making the perfect bartender: Mix one part mad scientist, one part psychiatrist, and one part artist and serve with a side of humor. Gabriel Orta fits the recipe exactly. One-half of the team that started the ...
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    Magnus voted for The Broken Shaker
    5 months ago
  • 2012 Winner
    Best Lounge in Miami
    1685 Collins Ave.
    There is no denying South Beach was abuzz with the news that Chris Paciello would be returning to the scene with a new project. After years as a guest in federal prison, he found a very different South Beach than the one he encountered in the 1990...
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    Tracey wants to do this
    5 months ago
  • 2012 Winner
    Best Costume Shop in Miami
    2400 NW 72nd Ave.
    Wanna scare the rabbit shit out of your leporiphobic nieces and nephews by dressing up like a six-foot-tall talking bunny named Sam who chuckles incessantly, screams for fun, and eats little kids instead of carrots? Go see the dress-up experts at ...
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    Molly wants to do this
    5 months ago
  • 2011 Winner
    Best Fries in Miami
    1548 W. 84th St.
    A thunderstorm rages outside the Original Ranch House when a vintage Chevy truck pulls into the parking lot. A man clad in a poncho, plaid shirt, jeans, and cowboy boots climbs out of the driver's side. He high-steps to the front door and swings i...
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    Steven wants to do this
    5 months ago
  • 2012 Winner
    Best Open Mic in Miami
    775 NE 125th St.
    If you're a musician, performance artist, poet, or spoken-wordsmith, follow the map in the sky to Luna Star Cafe in North Miami, now in its 16th year of awesomeness. There you can display your talent in an open-minded open format, with a supportin...
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    Amanda wants to do this
    5 months ago
  • Best Public Golf Course in Miami
    6700 Crandon Blvd.
    Greens, fairways, sand traps, blah, blah, blah. The exact dips, bunkers, and hills vary from course to course, but for the most part, many golf courses look like pretty standard seas of grass. Of course you can get your club on at any of these spo...
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    Timothy wants to do this
    5 months ago
  • 2012 Winner
    Best Pancakes in Miami
    2004 Biscayne Blvd.
    When it comes to flapjacks, you can't beat City Hall. The three-stack of steaming-hot plain pancakes ($11) is lusciously infused with sugar, vanilla, and enough butter to make a crêpe jealous. Real maple syrup is served. Other varieties of hotcake...
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    Paulo wants to do this
    6 months ago
  • 2012 Winner
    Best Wings in Miami
    1819 79th Str Causeway
    Since 1789, the chicken wing has been part of the U.S. Constitution. (Read the fine print, people. It's all the way down at the bottom before you get to the part that says Americans are obliged to dress in cheesy outfits for patriotic holiday obse...
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    Wendy commented "I love the wings there with hot sauce."
    6 months ago
  • 2012 Winner
    Best Plastic Surgeon in Miami
    1140 Kane Concourse
    Sure, Bal Harbour Plastic Surgery owner Dr. Michael A. Salzhauer (AKA Dr. Schnoz) is probably most notorious for his supercontroversial, allegedly anti-Semitic "Jewcan Sam" music video contest, a 2012 rhinoplasty promo prank that seriously pissed ...
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    Salomé voted for Bal Harbour Plastic Surgery
    6 months ago
  • 2011 Finalist
    Best Spanish Restaurant in Miami
    3252 NE 1st Ave.
    Cerveceria 100 Montaditos This isn't a formal Spanish restaurant but rather tenders one hundred little sandwiches at between $1 and $2.50 -- which, with its Spanish Mahou 5 Estrellas beer on tap makes it reminiscent of an authentic tapas bar. The...
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    Cristy voted for 100 Montaditos
    6 months ago
  • 2011 Winner
    Best Place To Kayak in Miami
    2620 S. Bayshore Drive
    Because we're perched on the edge of the great blue Atlantic, tropical wildlife flock, swim, and grow just steps from Miami's busiest intersections. Coconut Grove is not only the appropriate place to score your next date and suck down a Call a Cab...
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    Alexis just did this
    6 months ago