Best of Chico 2001—Reader’s Choice

Our readers’ ‘bests’

GOODS & SERVICES

Best record store
Tower Records
Wherehouse
Melody

Best used-records store

Underground
Wherehouse

Best computer store
Circuit City
Computers Plus
A.S. Computer Works

Best florist
Flower Market
San Francisco Flowers
Christian & Johnson

Best bike shop
Campus Bikes
Pullins
Sports LTD

Best thrift store
Salvation Army
Thrifty Bargain
ARC

Best secondhand clothing store
Lulu’s Fashion Lounge
Artifax
ARC

Best place to buy men’s clothing
The Gap
Corwin & Son
Men’s Wearhouse

Best place to buy women’s clothing
Lulu’s Fashion Lounge
Gottschalks
Ross Dress for Less

Best place to buy shoes
In Step Shoes
Payless Shoe Source
Lulu’s Fashion Lounge

Best place to blow your last $20
Centerfolds Cover Girls
Duffy’s
98 cent store

Best bookstore
Barnes & Noble
The Bookstore (used books)
A.S. Bookstore

Best place to buy groceries
WinCo
Safeway
S&S Produce

Best place to rent a video
All the Best
Blockbuster Video
Hollywood Video

Best hair salon/barbershop
Trends for Hair
Supercuts
Campus Cutters

Best day spa
Molly Coddle
Body Essentials
Body Resort

FOOD & DRINK

Best burger
Chico Brewhouse
Nobbies
In & Out

Best burrito
Speedy Burrito
Tacos de Acapulco
Aca Taco

Best smoothie
Island Smoothies
Jamba Juice
Juice Whirled

Best dessert
Jon & Bon’s
Shuberts Ice Cream and Candy
Cold Stone & Upper Crust—tie

Best pizza
Celestino’s Pizza
Round Table
Woodstock’s

Best bakery
Upper Crust
Great Harvest Bread Co.
Mim’s

Best Mexican food
La Familia
Tres Hombres
La Hacienda

Best Asian food
Windy’s Chinese
Happy Garden
Gen Kai and Grayatip Thai—tie

Best Italian food
Sicilian Cafè
Italian Cottage
Franky’s

Best place to get a vegetarian meal
Shadetree
Humboldt Cafè
Kramore Inn

Best breakfast
Morning Thunder Cafè
Sin of Cortez
Golden Waffle

Best lunch
Black Crow
Cory’s
Jasco’s and Hula’s—tie

Best dinner
Black Crow
5th Street Steakhouse
Sicilian Cafè

Best coffee
Starbucks
Bidwell Perk
Naked Lounge

Best new restaurant
Rawbar
In & Out
Humboldt Cafè and Bustolini’s—tie

NIGHTLIFE

Best bar
Duffy’s Tavern
Normal Street Bar
Riley’s Bar

Best place to dance
LaSalles
Crazy Horse
Mr. Lucky

Best place for an intimate conversation
Bidwell Park
Home
Naked Lounge

Best place to hear live music
LaSalles
Brick Works
Concert in the Park

Best happy hour
LaSalles and Normal Street—tie
Duffy’s, Madison Bear Garden, Riley’s—tie
University Bar

Best sports bar
The Graduate
Riley’s
Team Players

RECREATION

Best health club
In Motion Fitness
Chico Sports Club
North Valley Athletic Club

Best place to shoot pool
Team Players
Graduate
University Bar

Best playground
Caper Acres
Bidwell Park
Hooker Oak Park

Best swimming hole
Bear Hole
Brown’s Hole and One Mile—tie
Salmon Hole

Best community race
Wildflower Century
Almond Bowl Run
Relay for Life

MISCELLANEOUS

Best local TV news
KHSL
KNVN
KRCR

Best radio station
KZFR
107.5 The Point
106.7 Zrock

Best local scandal
Royal Courtain firing
Resdistricting Plan 5
Measure A

Best community event
Farmers’ Markets
A Taste of Chico
Concerts in the Park

Best local band
Electric Circus
Spark ‘n’ Cinder
Mystic Roots

Best local personality
DNA
Royal Courtain
Anthony Watts

Best art gallery
University Art Gallery
Drive By gallery on 7th Street
Thomas Kinkade Gallery and Vagabond Rose Gallery—tie

Best theater company
Blue Room
Chico State
Shakespeare in the Park

Best movie theatre
Tinseltown
Pageant
El Rey

Best place to get away from it all
Upper Park
Bidwell Park
Home

Best thing about Chico
People
Bidwell Park
Trees

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