Critics Picks:
Shopping



  1. Best Warehouse to Explore: Texas Office Products & Supplies
  2. Best Place to Outfit Your Cheap Date: Quarter to Ten
  3. Best Final Resting Place of Doomed Consumer Products: MacFrugals
  4. Best Cookbook Selection: Book People
  5. Best Selection of Upscale Cooking Utensils: Cornerstone Hardware
  6. Best Place to Shop for Cheap Household Fixtures: Habitat for Humanity RE-store
  7. Best Place to Buy the Perfect Gift: Architects & Heroes
  8. Best Neighborhood Grocery: Crestview Minimax
  9. Best Urban Steel Yard: Tips Iron & Steel Co.
  10. Best Boutique for Star Gazing: By George
  11. Best Place to Paint Your Lips: Stage and Screen Beauty Supply
  12. Best New Bookstore: Desert Books
  13. Best New Fringe Bookstore/Zinestore/Place-Type-Thingee: FringeWare
  14. Best Bargain Wine Bin: Fiesta Mart
  15. Best Piece of Glass: Fire Island Hot Glass Studio
  16. Best Institutional Rummage Sale: Radio Ranch
  17. Best Channel Surfing Stop & Shop: The KLRU Auction
  18. Best Allergy-Free Shopping: Wildflower Organics
  19. Best Pawn ShopBest Place to Buy Plants: Snoopers Nursery, Hardware and Pawn
  20. Best Selection of Tacky Western Shirts: Room Service
  21. Best Li'l Bike Shop: South Austin Bicycles
  22. Best Comic Book Store for the Rest of Us: Comic Cave
  23. Best Sign the Seventies Are Back: Oat Willie's Matchboxes
  24. Best Run for Your Money: Run-Tex
  25. Best Excuse to Start a Hobby: Hill Country Weavers
  26. Best New Development in Austin Gardening: Pitchforks & Tablespoons
  27. Best Neighborhood Koindu: Mitchie's Fine Black Art


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