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Best Cooking Classes

Metro CaringMetro Caring’s mission is simple: to connect the community with healthy food by removing economic barriers and other stigma attached to the traditional food-bank model. In fact, the nonprofit has taken that model and turned it upside down, creating a market where residents can “shop” for their food, and offering cooking classes that incorporate seasonal […]
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Best Mocktail List

Punch Bowl SocialThere are plenty of good reasons for bar patrons not to drink alcohol, and yet boozeless beverages are in short supply at most watering holes. Staying sober in the company of drunken revelers shouldn’t require limiting yourself to whatever’s available on the soda gun, nor should intriguing flavor combinations and fancy glassware have to result […]
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Best Business Incubator for Refugees

Food Bridge MarketplaceRefugees are enduring unfair criticism these days; in truth, most of them are hardworking people just trying to make a better life for their families. The Lincoln Park job incubator Food Bridge Marketplace encourages that goal by giving Middle Eastern and African refugees a practical lesson in American entrepreneurship. Here they can sell specialty kitchen […]
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Best New Branch Library

Rocky Mountain Land Library in GlobevilleJeff Lee and Ann Martin, longtime booksellers at the Tattered Cover, were on a book-buying trip in Wales in the ’90s when they came upon St. Deiniol’s Residential Library. That started their dream of creating a residential library in Colorado, one where they could donate the tens of thousands of books they’d been collecting on […]
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Best Ice Cream Flavor

High Point CreameryMuch of the buzz around High Point Creamery’s refined and inventive ice cream flavors surrounds its seasonal innovations: It’s hard to say no to a scoop of cozy toasted honey in the winter or a refreshing bite of cucumber-lime sorbet in hot summer months. But it’s a mistake to ignore the shop’s core offerings, even […]
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Best New Alternative Gallery

JuiceBoxAfter meeting at the New York Academy of Art, students Aaron Mulligan and Lucía Rodríguez fell in love and eventually settled in Mulligan’s home town of Denver, working toward their dream of creating a different kind of art gallery that would encourage working outside the box while also serving as a classroom and community center […]
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Best Dispensary for a Lightweight

BgoodInstead of trying to push its own edibles brand or entrusting the owner’s buddy to handle growing operations, Bgood decided to be more of a cannabis purveyor, like a liquor store. The dispensary hired Top Dawg and Lama Brand, two different sets of growers and breeders with established followings, to head Bgood cultivations so that […]