Up and Coming Weekly is a weekly publication in Fayetteville, NC and Fort Bragg, NC area offering local news, views, arts, entertainment and community event and business information.
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Best Car Washing/Detailing Hank’s Car Wash 3315 Raeford Rd., Fayetteville 910.485.3952 When your ride is a little dirty — or a lot dirty — the folks at Hank’s know what to do. Our readers think Hank’s is the place to get the dirty job of making your car clean done. With raceway pit crew precision, the staff at Hank’s will get you in and out in no time and without breaking the bank. Best Travel Agency AAA 181 Glensford Rd., Fayetteville 910.864.3115 With the national AAA organization behind them, the local staff at AAA do a great job of meeting — even exceeding — their customers’ needs. Whether you are looking for a Disney destination or hoping to cruise the open water, the friendly staff can make your travel dreams happen. Even if your travel plans are a little more local, AAA can help you with maps, tourbooks and attraction tickets to help you explore our own state. Best Hotel/Motel Holiday Inn-Bordeaux 1707 Owen Dr., Fayetteville 910.323.0111 www.hibordeaux.com Having just completed $4 million in renovations to the property, they have certainly earned the title of Best Hotel. The Holiday Inn Bordeaux has six floors with 259 rooms, nine suites and 33,000 square feet in meeting space. It has been revamped with new furniture, carpet, linens, mattresses as well as new window and wall coverings. There is a microwave and fridge in every room and flat screen TVs! The Holiday Inn Bordeaux is the largest convention and full service hotel in the Sandhills area and is the best place to house your out-of-town visitors to our fair city. Best Auto Repair Seals Body Shop 1318 Gillespie St., Fayetteville 910.323.0792 Seals Body Shop offers auto repair, body work and a wrecker service. Their full- service shop once again sealed the win for Best Auto Repair. Nathan’s and Ed’s Tires are also top performers according to our readers. Best Tobacco Shop Anstead’s Tobacco Company 419 Cross Creek Mall, Fayetteville 910.864.5705 www.fujipub.com/ansteads Anstead’s Tobacco Company has been in business for 27 years, offering a wide array of premium cigars, pipes, pipe tobaccos, roll-your-own cigarette tobaccos, light- ers and cigar accessories. From Apple Currant to Sea Mist, their collection of pipe tobaccos is second to none in the Fayetteville area. When you are looking for the best in tobacco, head over to Anstead’s and get your smoke on. Best Store for a Unique Gift Betty Kelly’s Gift Shop 1110 Hay St., Fayetteville 910.484.4044 Betty Kelly’s Gift Shop is something of an institution on Haymount Hill. Filled with collectibles and fun gifts, the shop is your destination if you are looking for something unique for friends or family. The shop offers fine stationery, invitations and greeting cards, as well as a selection of gift items, porcelain, jewelry, china, painted dish towels and ornaments. A printing service is available as well. 36 BEST OF FAYETTEVILLE SEPTEMBER 8-14, 2010 Bullard Furniture has been supplying the furnishing needs of Fayetteville families since 1957. Since they are a family-owned business, they should know a lot about what families need. Boasting the largest furniture selection in the area, with 100,000 square feet of brand name furniture (Broyhill, Craftmaster, Lane, Lazboy, Rowe and Tempur- pedic, just to name a few), you’re sure to find exactly what you need. And their three great guarantees mean that Bullard aims to please. Best Place to Buy Used Furniture New & Nearly New Thrift Shop 810 Bragg Blvd., Fayetteville 910.485.6837 www.nearlynewthriftshop.com Bob and Peggy Thompson have been in the nearly new business since 1974. They are frequent winners in this category, and it only takes a brief spin through their 15,000 square- feet facility to know that if you are in the market, they probably have what you are looking for. The store sells new and used furniture, used appliances and used baby items. New living room furniture is available for order in your choice of patterns and styles. Best New Book Store Barnes & Noble 121 Glensford Dr., Fayetteville 910.864.0840 www.barnesandnoble.com If you have an hour or so to kill, why not spend some time flipping through the books in Barnes & Noble. If you are a lover of the written word, there’s no better way to spend an after- noon than just browsing. Of course, you can always grab a hot cup of coffee and a pastry from the bakery while you are thinking over a book. If you’re like us, you can’t leave the store without taking a new friend home with you (or in some cases, several new friends.) Up & Coming Weekly readers like Barnes & Noble as the area’s Best New Bookstore (the books are new, not the store). With special events and clubs going on almost every day of the week, the store offers much more than just great books. Best Used Book Store, Best Place to Buy Used CDs Edward McKay 3720 Bragg Blvd., Fayetteville 910.868.1001 www.edmckay.com Edward McKay’s was voted the Best used Book Store and the Best Place to Buy Used CDs by Up & Coming Weekly’s readers. The store has been in business since 1975, and over that time has grown quite a following. You can buy, sell and trade used books, as well as other media such as DVDs, video games, music CDs, VHS tapes, audiobooks and even iPods and other electronics. Best Place To Buy New CDs, Best Buy 2034 Skibo Rd., Fayetteville 910.868.3707 www.bestbuy.com If you’ve ever gotten up at 3 a.m. on Black Friday to go shopping, you probably were sur- prised to find that you were not in the front of the line at Best Buy. Instead, you were at the back of the line! Fayetteville residents love Best Buy, and they are not alone. More than 31 million U.S. customers take advantage of Best Buy’s Reward Zone, and gauging the line on Black Friday more than a few of those are right here in Fayetteville. Best Buy was named “Company of the Year” by Forbes magazine in 2004, ranked in the Top 10 of “America’s Most Generous Corporations” by Forbes magazine, and made Fortune magazine’s List of Most Admired Companies in 2006. WWW.UPANDCOMINGWEEKLY.COM Best Place to Buy New Furniture Bullard Furniture 4901 Morganton Rd., Fayetteville 910.864.5533 www.bullardfurniture.com