Love to drink quality wine but don’t love paying quality wine prices? Check out Rollin’ Oats Market and Cafe. The locally owned purveyor of organic foods and other crunchy granola fare offers a great variety of inexpensive wines. Example: a bottle of 7 Deadly Zins Red Zinfandel costs $17.99 at Publix, but only $9.99 at Rollin’ Oats. The markets (located on both sides of the bay) also sell many highly rated wines (high 80s and low 90s) for between $5.99 and $9.99. —Amy Beeman
Goods & Services: Tampa Bay businesses that did it right.
Tampa Bay businesses that did it right.
RUNNERS-UP: AER Apartments, Post SoHo Square Apartments
Wood wizard Jon Stine is known for crafting beautiful longboards, beer taps and very-high-end custom furniture, but countertops — who knew? When my boyfriend and I went searching for wood countertops that didn’t look like 1985-married ScanDesign, we ran into Stine working in the back room of Anderson Lumber and learned, shockingly, that we could afford him. He added artistic touches — tying together the tones of wood between the high-top and the work surface, carving out space for a mermaid compass rose, and using his power tools to add creative weathering to the cypress — all without calling attention to itself as “art.” Facebook: Stine Custom Woodworks, LLC. —Cathy Salustri
RUNNERS-UP: Autoworks of Tampa, Big John’s Brake & Alignment Service
RUNNERS-UP: Grow Financial Federal Credit Union, Suncoast Federal Credit Union
