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Here are your City's Best winners.
We nominated a short list and you picked the winners. Congratulations to the winners and in this case, it really is an honor to be nominated. Be sure to eat and drink responsibly.

Live Music Winner
Starland Ballroom
Location: Sayreville
If you grew up listening to Jersey radio, you've heard the words "Hunka Bunka Ballroom in Sayreville." There's an odd music to the phrase, even for...
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Stone Pony
Location: Asbury Park
There's something oxymoronic (or just moronic) about suggesting that a bricks-and-mortar establishment is worthy of hall of fame induction. But thi...
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Maxwell's
Location: Hoboken
Back in the early '80s, seminal indie-rock acts like the B52s, REM, the Minutemen and the Feelies regularly treated fans to intimate shows in Ma...
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Whiskey Bar
Location: Hoboken
Whiskey Bar is down at the train station end of Washington Street, which might make Hoboken vets a little frightened. There's plenty of good rock a...
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Trumpets Jazz Club-Restaurant
Location: Montclair
Trumpets is silent on Mondays and major holidays, but pretty much any other day of the year you can expect to hear the sounds of jazz -- quartets, ...
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Ringside Pub
Location: Caldwell
Ever wonder where the bands who rock the Jersey Shore all summer hibernate for the winter? Well, you could start by looking at the Ringside Pub in ...
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Mexicali Blues Cafe
Location: Teaneck
"Mexicali Blues" was a Grateful Dead staple during the band's 30-year run, establishing a jam-band legacy. But was it a country song, a rock tune o...
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Stanhope House
Location: Stanhope
If you were to ask blues purists to conceptualize the imaginary blues highway that crisscrosses America, they would probably show it snaking throug...
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The Saint
Location: Asbury Park
The legendary Stone Pony, once the ground zero of Asbury's music scene, has rocked only intermittently since the Boss left town. But the Saint's de...
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