One week a year, Alive hands the reins over to our readers. We ask you to play favorites, picking the best restaurants, bars, clubs, stores, museums, galleries and more in Columbus.
We set things up a little differently this year, offering up nominees in each of 100 categories in the dining, nightlife, shopping and arts categories and letting readers choose from there. Voting was open in December and January at ColumbusAlive.com.
And we're quite happy with the Best of Columbus victors selected by this year's 7,964 voters - it's a well-rounded group of longtime champions and rising stars, locally owned spots and chains that do it right.
Story by G.A. Benton, Nikki Davis, Chris DeVille, Brittany Kress, Brian Lindamood, Shelley Mann, John Ross, Michaela Schuett & Jesse Tigges
Photos by Jodi Miller, Will Shilling & Dispatch file photos
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BEST OF ARTS & CULTURE
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