Readers have chosen their favorite places to shop and spend their time in the Best of Columbus annual survey of Columbus Monthly. See who won.
Welcome to Best of Columbus, the original competition voted by the City of the Crown City our favorite people and places. In this year’s package, you will find the stories behind some of the local readers selected as winners in our online survey. Columbus monthly Readers have chosen more than 100 of their favorite places to eat and drink, shop and spend their time. Here are the reader’s choices for the best shopping and entertainment.
Best bar for music
1 Grandview of Natalie
2 ace of cups
2 Woodlands Tavern
Best beer store
1 wine and beer aardvark
2 Weiland market
3 The daily growler
Best bicycle store
1 Johnny Velo Bikes
2 beech bikes
2 bike a
2 Garage Paradis
Best bowling
1 mechanical pins Co.
2 Ten Pin Alley
Lanes 3 stars polaris
Best clothing resale store
1 vintage flower child
1 Once again
3 cupboard
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Best concert place
1 Kemba live
2 Ohio Theater
3 Grandview of Natalie
Best Dora (designated exterior refresh area)
1 Dublin
2 Hilliard
3 Worthington
Cheaper producers
1 Worthington
2 Market Dublin in Bridge Park
3 Clintonville
Best festival
1 Columbus Arts Festival
2 Dublin Irish Festival
3 Comfest
3 Stonewall Columbus Pride Festival
Best fitness studio
1 studio Glow Fitness
2 orangetheory fitness
3 The Butcher Shop Fitness
Best florist
1 florists Desantis
2 5TH AVE. Floral co.
3 market flowers
Best furniture resale store
1 Mercantile Grandview
2 Vintage Child flower
3 Once again
Best gallery
1 Galleries of Faucon
1 studios on High Gallery
3 934 Gallery
3 Sarah Gormley Gallery
Best garden center
1 Oakland nursery
2 Strader’s Garden Center
3 Groovy Ranch plants
Best grocery store
1 Littleton market
2 Giant Eagle Market District
3 Weiland market
Best gymnasium
1 Jewish community center in the Grand Columbus
2 Athletic Club of Columbus
2 McConnell Health Health Center
2 westerville recreation center
2 ymca from the center of Ohio
Best hairdressing salon
1 Kenneth’s rooms + day spas
2 Penzone + spas lounge
3 akada
Best hardware store
1 ACE Beechwold material
2 Zettler material
3 Nutter material
Best LGBTQ + Bar / Club
1 slap
2 Union Café
3 Club diversity
Best local group
1 mojoflo
2 caamps
3 HOODOO Soul Band
Best local musician
1 Bobby Floyd
2 Willie Phoenix
3 Angela Perley
Best cinema
1 Studio 35 Cinema and Drafthouse
2 Grandview Theater & Drafthouse
2 The Drexel theater
Best museum
1 Columbus Museum of Art
2 cosi
3 Ohio History Center
Best park
1 park of columbus roses
1 highbanks
3 Inniswood
Best place for interior decoration
1 Oakland Home
2 Mercantile Grandview
3 braid warehouses
Best place for last -minute gifts
1 Oakland Home
2 Jeffrey Thomas
3 Tigerree
Best place for men’s fashions
1 Jeffrey Thomas
2 Godfrys
3 Samson male emporium
Best place for Ohio manufacturing stuff
1 tribute
2 Celebrate Local
3 Cat and wild chat festival
Best place for women’s fashion
1 Jeffrey Thomas
2 vernacular
3 Rowe Boutique
3 wire
Best place to buy jewelry
1 diamond cellar
2 Worthington jewelers
3 jewelers Argo and Lehne
Best place to remove owners
1 Columbus zoo and aquarium
2 bridge bridges
3 gardens of the Conservatoire and Botanique de Franklin Park
Best public art
1 corn field, dublin
1 Schiller Park suspended wire sculptures
3 Goodale Park elephant fountain
Best racing / walking or cycling event
1 pelotonia
2 children’s hospital marathon nationwide and half-marathon
3 Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure
Best spa
1 Kenneth’s rooms + day spas
2 Penzone + spas lounge
3 Spas Woodhouse
Best store for household items
1 box and barrel
2 on the table
3 Elm & Iron Home Goods
Best wine store
1 wine and beer aardvark
2 gentile wine sellers
3 Weiland market
Best yoga studio
1 goyoga
2 life bed + yoga
3 Radiant Yoga and Wellness
This story appears in the July 2025 issue of Columbus Monthly as part of the Best of Columbus package. Subscribe to Columbus monthly here.