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In the Best Best: Readers’ Choice 2025 survey of Baltimore Sun, our readers voted on what is best in the region, wedding places and roofers with pediatricians and hair salons. This year’s winners highlight people and businesses recognized for exceptional services and customer satisfaction in the past year.
The survey includes more than 550 winners in nearly 200 categories in six areas – arts and entertainment, house and garden, food and drinks, lifestyle and shopping, personal services and people and media. More than 47,000 ballots have been sunk, cultivating a list of your favorite museums, pizzas, shops, television anchors, radio hosts and more.
Best clothing store, men’s clothing, shoe store: Gian Marco Mens swear
517 N. Charles St. 410-347-7974. Gian-Marco-menswear.com.
As for what is worth, everyone takes care of prices in this fashion shop for men.
“They are entitled,” said Marc Sklar, CEO of Charles Street’s store, who treats luxury clothes and shoes.
Who would pay $ 100 for a bow tie, $ 260 for a cotton shirt or $ 400 for a pair of crocodile and python sneakers?
“Someone who appreciates quality,” said Sklar. “People who come here want a good product. It’s like eating steak rather than something McDonald’s. ”
Nantis customers agree. For 35 years, they have bought a European dress and relaxed wear of Gian Marco’s fashionable racks, while praising the most notch fabrics and personalized clothes.
“This thing is so well done that it will get rid of it, then will come back before it wears out,” wrote an online critic.
“It’s almost true,” said Sklar. “Except that the goods we buy is so timeless that it never gets rid of.”
Twice a year, he and the co -owner John Massey fly in Italy and travel the high -end clothing factories, while waiting for this Eureka! moment.
“We have literally climbed through vaults of fabric to find things that are really unique,” said Sklar. “We are looking for buried treasures.”
The fabric found, they make their orders, aware of the extent of their customers.
“Sometimes we have Italian manufacturers who produce sizes that they would not normally produce,” he said. “They must understand that there is a plot great Americans. “”
How old are Gian Marco’s customers?
“25 years to death,” said Sklar. “We have done a lot of their burials.”
Also weddings, diplomas, confirmations and bar-mitsva.
“We are going to people to adapt them or to redo their cabinets,” said the owner. To tell the truth, customers like to browse the Mount Vernon store, if only to hear the jokes of good humor between Sklar and Massey. The first said: “We have been in this business for so long that John dressed Moses.”
Do you have a tip? Contact Mike Klingaman at jklingaman@baltsun.com and 410-332-6456.
Antiquities: Second chance
Honorable mentions:
The painted mill
Vintage treasures
Ancient cornerstone and sending
Barbershop: Old Line Barbers
Honorable mentions:
Two bits
Ernesto barber
Westminster Barbershop
Bike workshop: Joe’s Bike Shop
Honorable mention:
Bike
Bookstore: Barnes & Noble
Honorable mentions:
Ivy bookstore
Gourmet reeds
Old Fox Books & Coffeehouse
Wedding store: Gamberdella
Honorable mentions:
Amanda Ritchey Bridal Loft
Elegant Touch Bridal and Toxedo
To like! in Stella’s Bridal & Fashionions
Eyebrow thread: Beautiful eyebrow thread and Subita Spa and Spa (tie)
Honorable mention:
Rhea eyebrow fixture
Cannabis producer: Sun producers
Honorable mentions:
Curio
Curious
Auto dealer: Jones Junction
Honorable mentions:
Heritage
Anderson Automotive
Jimmy The Boxer Auto Mall
Boutique clothing: Gian Marco Menswear
Honorable mentions:
Brightside Boutique
Fells Point Surf Co.
Mason-Mayes (tie)
My Fancy finds Boutique (tie)
CONSIGNNATION / RESTRAL ATELIER: Habitat for Humanity Restore
Honorable mentions:
Second chance
Uptown Cheapskate
Goodwill
Day Spa: Eeyah Holistic Spa
Honorable mentions:
The pearl spa
FX studios
Conscious moon
Dispensary: Greenlabs
Honorable mentions:
Health for life
Well-being of green point
Curious
Gifts: Smyth Jewelers
Honorable mentions:
The nest on the principal
Becket Hitch
Tra cigardiva
Grocery store: giant food
Honorable mentions:
Germs
Whole foods
Green Valley
Gym: Krav Maga Maryland
Honorable mentions:
Club Pilates, Ellicott City
Brick body
YMCA from the center of Maryland
Hairdressing salon: sumptuous lounge
Honorable mentions:
Jordan Thomas Salon & Spa
Salon K. Co Design
Thirty hair
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Jeweler: Smyth Jewelers
Honorable mentions:
Radcliffe jewelers
Saxons
Charles Nusinov & Sounds Déjeoutes
Alcohol store: the source of wine
Honorable mentions:
Cranbrook liqueurs
Bel Air Liquors
Christo reduction liqueurs
Martial arts: Krav Maga Maryland
Honorable mentions:
US Martial Arts Academy
Monroe Brazilian Hall Jiu Jitsu
Us Kuo Shu Academy
Maryland is shasting / wax (cannabis): Sunnies by sun producers
Honorable mention:
Curious
Maryland has produced pre-roll (cannabis): solar producers
Honorable mentions:
Curio
Curious
MEDISPA: aesthetic luxmode
Honorable mentions:
Seidenberg, Protzko Eye Associates
Aesthetic pace
Mason & Friends (tie)
Promd tox bar (tie)
Men’s Swear: Male mode Gian Marco
Honorable mention:
The luxury of Marcia
Music lessons: Baltimore School of Music
Honorable mentions:
Musical arts stages
Lutherville music school
Musical earth
Pet products for pets: Le Moulin
Honorable mention:
Howl, MCHENRY ROW
Straehle Invitational Meet
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Pool: Padonia Park
Honorable mention:
Jewish community center of the Grand Baltimore
Maryland product Cebible (cannabis): Sunnies by Sunmed Growers
Honorable mention:
Curious
Retirement community: Broadmead
Honorable mentions:
Miller’s Grant
Mercy Ridge
Stella Maris
Shoe store: Gian Marco Menswear
Honorable mentions:
The Bon Foot Store
Moore run
My little shoe
Spin class: Rev Cycle
Honorable mentions:
Jen McColigan, Ymca de Kent
Resistance cycle
Yoga studio: Pilates House
Honorable mentions:
The pearl spa
Columbia Yoga Center
Corepower yoga
Honorable mentions
Braiding: the Oshun river
Food store / health supplements: mom’s organic market
Publisher’s note: The winners and honorable mentions were determined by a popular vote. Readers were invited to appoint and vote online from April to May. The ballot and the results are generated only by readers’ votes. The Baltimore Sun does not take responsibility for the services offered or announced by those listed.
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