Get Your Tickets to Highball - A Craft Cocktail Competition

Best Local Singer/Songwriter: Jeremy Thomas of Basic Rock Outfit

Previous Winners

2011

Geri X

Readers' Poll 2011

Best Local Alt-Rock Act: Basic Rock Outfit

Annual Event: Gasparilla

Best Bakery: Alessi Bakery

Best Barbecue Restaurant: Sonny’s Real Pit Bar-B-Q

Best Bargain Restaurant: La Teresita

Best Beach: Fort DeSoto

Best Beer Bar: The Independent

Best Bizarro Local News Story: Teacher/student sex scandals

Best Breakfast: First Watch

Best of the Bay Slideshows

Everyone who stepped into Creative Loafing's Best of the Bay 2023 photo booth

Everyone who stepped into Creative Loafing's Best of the Bay 2023 photo booth

Photos from Creative Loafing Tampa Bay's 2023 Best of the Bay party

Photos from Creative Loafing Tampa Bay's 2023 Best of the Bay party

Best Distillery
St. Pete Distillery
Finalists: Tarpon Springs Distillery, The Urban Stillhouse

Tampa Bay's best restaurants, food and drink of 2023, according to our readers

Everyone who stepped into Creative Loafing's Best of the Bay 2022 photo booth

Everyone who stepped into Creative Loafing's Best of the Bay 2022 photo booth