Here's the Best of Everything in Rochester and Rochester Hills
You voted for your favorite hair salon, dentist, ice cream and more than a dozen other categories. Do the winners surprise you?
All this summer you've nominated and voted for your favorite local businesses and services.
And now ... the winners. We've tallied all the poll votes and present the winners here.
Do you agree? Tell us, in the comments, why or why not!
- Winner: Dairy Queen
- 2nd Place: Cold Stone
- 3rd Place: Maggie Moo's
- Winner: Sumo Sushi
- 2nd Place: Take Sushi
- 3rd Place: Sakura
- Winner: Red Knapps
- 2nd Place: Chomp
- 3rd Place: Burgrz
Best Service/Wait Staff at a Restaurant
- Winner (tie): Kruse & Muer and Lipuma's
- 2nd Place: Rochester Chop House
- Winner: Parisian
- 2nd Place: Clark's
- 3rd Place: South Street Skate Shop
- Winner: ReSale Connection
- 2nd Place: Salvation Army
- 3rd Place: The Funky Frog Children's Resale
- Winner: Haig's of Rochester Fine Jeweler
- 2nd Place: Aurum
- 3rd Place: Antiques and Fine Jewelry by Pamela
- Winner: Pet Supplies Plus
- 2nd Place: Urban Dog
- Winner: Red Lotus
- 2nd Place: Updog Yoga
- 3rd Place: Yoga Planet
- Winner: Daniel's
- 2nd Place: Rusted Roots
- 3rd Place: Salon Elan
- Winner: Rochester Advanced Dentistry
- 2nd Place: Dentate Smile Design
- 3rd Place: University Dental
- Winner: Spillane & Reynolds Orthodontics
- 2nd Place: Tyler, Dumas and Reyes
- 3rd Place: Dr. William Molloy
- Winner: Oakland Animal Hospital
- 2nd Place: Goodison
- 3rd Place: North Hill Veterinarians
- Winner: Rochester Advanced Dentistry
- 2nd Place: East Street Pilates
- 3rd Place: Croskey Lanni PC
- Winner: RARA
- 2nd Place: EDE Center for Dance
- 3rd Place: Pointe Academy Dance Center
- Winner: Heart of the Hills
- 2nd Place: Lifetime
- 3rd Place: Brookwood and Twin Lakes
- Winner: Kidz 1st Pediatrics
- 2nd Place: Northeast Pediatrics
- 3rd Place: Country Creek Physicians
Best Place for a Girls' Night Out
- Winner: Fieldstone Winery
- 2nd Place: Bar Louie
- 3rd Place: Penny Black
- Winner: Limelight
- 2nd Place: Penny Black
- 3rd Place: Downtown Cafe
If you're the owner of one of these businesses, thank your customers for voting you tops in Rochester and Rochester Hills!
Downtown Booksellers
11:06 am on Friday, August 24, 2012
Best bookstore - Downtown Booksellers...
Kristin Bull
10:35 am on Friday, August 24, 2012
Congratulations to all of the local businesses who received such amazing community support in this quest to find the "best of Rochester"!
Jeanette
1:13 pm on Friday, August 24, 2012
Anyone interested in joining the BEST POOL in Rochester Hills can check out the Heart of the Hills website at www.hhscswim.org. Heart is a membership owned club located at Avon and Old Perch Rd. open Memorial Day weekend to Labor Day. We are a family-focused club with an awesome lifeguard staff and offer swim lessons free to our members. We have BBQ grills onsite for your own use. We also have competitive swim and tennis teams! As we like to say, "See you at the Pool!"
Dan DeClark
2:25 pm on Friday, August 24, 2012
Best Native American Art Gallery : LEGENDS OF TIME
6 years in a row Best of the whole eastern U.S.A. voted by Native American Business Alliance.