Milton picked. Here are all 29 winners.

Best of Milton is settled.

Voting closed last week: 3,534 ballots cast by 346 of your neighbors across 29 categories. We did not nominate anyone, and nobody could buy a spot. Every name below is here because readers put it here.

Here is what surprised me.

Showing up beat being biggest.

CHS JamBEARee won Best Local Festival by five votes over Crabapple Fest, which is far and away the most attended annual event in this town. Smoke on the Farm, one of the newer kitchens in Milton, walked off with two awards.

Neither result is an upset once you see what this ballot actually measured. It was never a survey of what is largest here. It was a count of who cares enough to say so.

And Milton does not read the signs.

Best Coffee Shop went to Whitetail Bicycles & Coffee Company, which is also where you go for a bike. Hyde Brewing, a brewpub, finished second for Best Tacos. Best Nail Salon went to POSH Nails, Spa & Coffee.

A good business in this town just becomes the place people go, whatever it says on the door.

One more, for anyone who figures a single vote does not move anything. Best Burger came down to two votes out of 160, with Olde Blind Dog that close behind SmashBurger by Vice.

All 29 winners and 26 honorable mentions are below. Every one of them got here the same way. Now go be a regular somewhere.

Every winner has a permanent page with their award, and the full results with runners-up are on the results page.

See all 29 winners →

Honorable mention is listed where second place was clear. Where a category ran uncontested or second place was tied, we left it off rather than invent a runner-up the votes did not choose.

One favor: when you visit one of these places this week, tell them Milton voted for them. That is the whole point of a local award.

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