2009 BEST OF
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CO N T E N TS Eateries, Watering Holes and More Best… Appetizers • 3 Bagel • 3 Bar • 4 Billiards • 8 Breakfast • 3 Breakfast Burrito • 3 Burger • 6 Cup of Coffee or Tea • 4 Donut • 4 Happy Hour • 4 International Eats • 4 Lunch Spot • 4 Margarita • 6 Menu for Healthy Choices • 4 Overall Restaurant • 6 Pizza • 3 Restaurant for a Date/Romantic Evening • 6 Sandwich • 6 Spot to Cure a Sweet Tooth • 6 Sushi • 6 Taco • 3 Venue for Live Music • 3
At the Shops Best… Antiques • 8 Arts and Craft Supplies • 8 Clothing • 8 Home Decor and Furnishings • 10 Jewelry • 10 Kids Apparel & Toys • 10 Place to Buy Flowers • 10 Place for Buying and Viewing Art • 10 Store to Buy the Perfect Gift • 10 Surfboard Shaper • 8 Surf Shop • 8 Wine Selection • 8
Services on the To-Do List
Welcome to the fourth annual SC Times Best of San Clemente People’s Choice “Ole Awards,” our annual celebration of San Clemente’s favorite businesses, services and places. The only “Best of” awards of its kind in San Clemente and Orange County, the SC Times “Ole Awards” are 100 percent selected by you, the readers, through online polls and mailed ballots. It is our way of helping all of our local businesses by helping promote the notion of shopping locally and taking advantage of all of the great businesses and services available to us here in San Clemente. It’s our own little stimulus package, if you will, and you, the reader, helped make it happen! This year we had the biggest response yet—almost 3,000 ballots were filled out and sent in over the last month. After carefully counting all the votes, we have packaged them up in this handy pullout section that you can keep next to your phone or computer to help you when you’re looking for a place to try for dinner, or a dry cleaner, or home furnishings. Make sure to look for the distinctive Gold and Silver Ole Award stickers in the windows of all of our winners and tell them you read about them (or maybe even voted for them) in the SC Times. We’ll also post this entire pullout section available online at www.sanclementetimes.com for the entire year. So, without further ado, the SC Times proudly presents your People’s Choice “Ole Awards” for 2009: Four-time winner Surfin’ Donuts. Photo by Sara Borman
Best… Barber Shop • 10 Car Repair • 12 Dry Cleaner • 12 Pet Care & Grooming • 12 Gym • 12 Hair Salon • 12 Lodging • 12 Manicure & Pedicure • 12 Spa for Massages, Etc. • 14 Surfboard Ding Repair • 12 Yoga/Pilates Studio • 14
Getting Outside Best… Beach • 14 Golf Course • 14 Park to Take the Kids • 14 Place to Take Out-of-Towners • 14 Surf Break • 14