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Monday, July 9, 2012

Loudoun Readers' Choice Nominations Close Today

Nominate the best places in Loudoun by 11:59 p.m. July 9

What are your favorite Loudoun businesses? We've been taking nominations from Patch readers and soon voting will begin on the county's best businesses and services for Patch's Summer 2012 Readers' Choice. Today's the last day. Nominations close at 11:59 p.m. July 9. Tell us your favorites across these 25 categories: Food & Drink Best Appetizers Best Happy Hour Best Ice Cream or Frozen Yogurt Best Italian Restaurant Best Mexican Restaurant Best Pizza Best Seafood Best Sushi Best Wine Shop Best Vineyard Entertainment Best Bowling Alley Best Teen Hangout Best Historic Site Best Local Band Best Movie Theatre Best Park Best Golf Course Shopping Best Grocery Store Services Best Day Care Best Place for Tuxedos, Dresses Best Dance Studio Best Hair…

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Dusty Smith

8:09 pm on Monday, July 9, 2012

Yeah, I decided not to do Chinese because we had done that for just the Ashburn area earlier this year and I thought it would be a slight to have another winner so soon. In Ashburn, Chin-Chin won, while Yen's and East Wind China Bistro (fairly new) did well with votes.   more ›

Saturday, July 7, 2012

Loudoun Readers' Choice Nominations Close Monday

Nominate the best places in Loudoun by 11:59 p.m. July 9

What's the best of Loudoun County? We're asking Patch readers to nominate and vote on their favorite businesses, services and individuals in the area in Patch's Summer 2012 Readers' Choice. And you only have two days left: Nominations close at 11:59 p.m. July 9. Nominate your favorites across these 25 categories: Food & Drink Best Appetizers Best Happy Hour Best Ice Cream or Frozen Yogurt Best Italian Restaurant Best Mexican Restaurant Best Pizza Best Seafood Best Sushi Best Wine Shop Best Vineyard Entertainment Best Bowling Alley Best Teen Hangout Best Historic Site Best Local Band Best Movie Theatre Best Park Best Golf Course Shopping Best Grocery Store Services Best Day Care Best Place for Tuxedos, Dresses Best Dance Studio Best Hair …

Monday, June 18, 2012

Loudoun County's Readers' Choice 2012

Nominate your favorite business, service or person in the categories below by Monday, July 9. Voting starts later this summer.

What's the best of Loudoun County? We're asking Patch readers to nominate and vote on their favorite businesses, services and individuals in the area in Patch's Summer 2012 Readers' Choice. Click on the links below to submit your nomination for Readers' Choice by July 9. We'll turn your nominations and our directory listings into a poll in each category later this summer and let our readers tell us where to get best pizza, catch a film, go for happy hour, where to take the kids and more. The contest rules are in an attached PDF document. The categories are below. Let the nominations begin! Food & Drink Best Appetizers Best Happy Hour Best Ice Cream or Frozen Yogurt Best Italian Restaurant Best Mexican Restaurant Best Pizza Best Seafood …

Howard Handel

8:53 am on Wednesday, June 27, 2012

What about a category for best battery store, don't see a way to nominate Battery Warehouse in Leesburg if there isn't a category to fit in???   more ›

Saturday, March 3, 2012

Patch Voters Choose NoVa's Best Burgers

Patch readers across Northern Virginia cast more than 2,100 votes this week to choose their favorite local burger places.

The results of the first week of Best of Patch polling finished on Friday morning, and the big winner around the region was Five Guys Burgers and Fries, which was chosen by Patch readers as the best burger place in six area communities. But Five Guys wasn't the only winner in this week's poll. Reston voters chose The Counter Burger as their favorite, Fredericksburg voters chose the local Otter House, and Leesburg chose Blue Ridge Grill its favorite. Other restaurants in each town received many votes, glowing comments from fans and great reviews in the Patch Places directory. In all, Patch readers across Northern Virginia posted more than 2,165 votes to choose the best burgers in their towns. Below is a summary of the winners and results of…

beth n

4:36 pm on Sunday, August 19, 2012

I will gladly drive to Fuddruckers for a good burger, 5 Guys bites it.   more ›

Friday, March 2, 2012

Best Burger Winner: Five Guys

Readers voted on the best place in the community to eat a hamburger.

Congratulations to Five Guys for its win in the Best of Ashburn Patch best hamburger poll. With all the restaurants that specialize in hamburger these days, it seemed like a logical poll to kick things off. Readers voted throughout the week on their favorites. Next week the poll will focus on the best places in Ashburn to take your children. Of the 144 people who voted, 60 (41 percent) voted for Five Guys, which is located in the Ashburn Restaurant Park. In second place, the Fuddruckers at Pipeline Plaza received 34 votes (23 percent). The Blue Ridge Grill in Brambleton—which offers the Royale with Cheese, the BRG Burger and the Leesburger—took third place with 20 votes (13 percent), followed closely by the Red Robin at Ryan Park Center, …

Monday, August 15, 2011

Loudoun Dominates Local Magazine's “Best of Suburbia” List

Ashburn scores big on list comprised primarily of small, local businesses.

I am Modern Magazine recently released its “Best of the DC Suburbs” list for Northern Virginia. According to its survey of readers, Loudoun restaurants and businesses – including many in Ashburn – were able to claim several top spots in numerous categories from the Ashburn-based magazine.  A good handful of honors also went to places located nearby in Leesburg and Sterling.  Ali Vonal, editor of I am Modern, recently spoke on a local TV news program about the results. “We received tens of thousands of votes over a period of a month," he said. "The survey was dominated by small independent-owned businesses ... companies that offered urban-chic sophistication without the high prices”. Misguided Angels, a women’s clothing store in Brambleton …

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