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 Tea Selection McDuff’s Tea Emporium 114 Gillespie St., Fayetteville 910.488.0328 www.mcduffstearoom.com If you love tea, then there is only one place for you to go in Fayetteville, and that is straight down to the historic downtown to McDuff’s Tea Emporium. Situ- ated directly across from the Market House, McDuff’s carries a wide selection of teas, and offers great light sandwiches and salads to go along with your tea. Think of it this way, McDuff’s is the tea party little girls dreamed of when they were little, but never got to have. Best Men’s Clothing Store Steinmart 2800 Raeford Rd., Fayetteville 910.484.1030 www.steinmart.com If your main man prefers to dress like your little boy, you might want to take him on a trip to Steinmart. Steinmart has a great collection of men’s clothing in both casual and dress styles. You can dress him up in a great suit, but you can also dress him down in jeans and T-shirts. Steinmart is a great place to find just what you are looking for, and it won’t break your bank either. Best Children’s Clothing Store Tiny Town 3015 Fort Bragg Rd., Fayetteville 910.323.1991 Tiny Town is a Fayetteville tradition. Countless Fayetteville families have dressed their children in the fantastic labels found in Tiny Town. If you want your child to be dressed to the nines, there’s no better place to shop. Best Leather Store M&M Leather and Custom Cycle 4400 Bragg Blvd., Fayetteville 910.487.6151 www.mmleather.com Readers chose M&M Leather and Custom Cycle as tops in leather goods once again this year. The shop offers not only leather goods, shoes and acces- sories, but Victory motorcycles, custom Victory parts and accessories and a full line of OEM and after market motorcycle parts. It also deals in used and custom bikes built to your specification. Best Lawn & Garden Nursery Owen Garden Center and Nursery 5955 Cliffdale Rd., Fayetteville 910.864.2905 www.mercergarden.com/owen_garden.html If you have a green thumb, you probably are pretty familiar with Owen Garden Center. Located on Cliffdale Road, the nursery has a little bit of everything, and changes what it carries with the season. Right now if you are looking to stock up on gourds straw or pumpkin, this is the place to stop. In the spring, when you are thinking about flowers, they’ve got them. And, at Christmas, you can be sure to find fragrant wreaths and greenery. Best Bakery Great Harvest Bread 2711 Raeford Rd., Fayetteville www.greatharvestbread.com In the 1970s, Pete and Laura Wakeman, were just a couple of college kids who baked amazing scratch-made WWW.UPANDCOMINGWEEKLY.COM SEPTEMBER 8-14, 2010 BEST OF FAYETTEVILLE 39 whole grain bread to help pay their tuition at Cornell University. Newly married in 1975, the adventurous couple hiked the entire north-south length of Montana. They never left and they established the first Great Harvest Bakery in Great Falls. Word spread fast about their uniquely flavorful bread made with pure-and- simple ingredients and wheat purchased from local farmers. It didn’t take long before neighbors asked about starting up their own Great Harvest. In 1978, the freedom franchise was born and the next bakery opened in Kalispell, Montana. Slowly and organically, Great Harvest began to grow into the nation’s first family of independently owned and operated whole grain bread bakeries. Authenticity, a spirit of camaraderie and individuality remain the foundation of the organization. Today there are more than 200 Great Harvest bakeries located across the United States, including right here in Fayetteville. Great Harvest’s enduring strength is its mission to “be loose and fun, bake phenomenal bread, run fast to help customers, create strong exciting bakeries, and give generously to others.” Best Florist Owen’s Florist 3306 Raeford Rd., Fayetteville 910.484.4161 www.owensfl orist.com Owen’s Florist & Greenhouse is a family-owned and operated business that has been serving the community for a number of years. The florist is committed to offering only the finest floral arrangements and gifts, backed by service that is friendly and prompt. They believe that every customer is important, and seek to make a visit to their store pleasant and go the extra mile to make your floral gift perfect. Best Place To Buy New Video Games, Best Place to Buy Used Video Games GameStop 7711 S Raeford Rd., Fayetteville 910.868.1030 www.gamestop.com If you’re a parent then you know the feeling you get when your child spots the red and black GameStop sign. You know, without question, that you are going to have to spend some of your hard-fought shopping time staring aimlessly at game covers while your child looks at each and every one of them (and we know that some of the children we are talking about are grown ups). If it’s a game you’re looking for, then GameStop will certainly have it and the accessories that go along with them. Best Place to Get a Tattoo, Best Place for Body Piercing Performance 6380 Yadkin Rd., Fayetteville 910.568.5986 www.performancetattoo.com It is no wonder that Performance Tattoo wins as the best place to get a tattoo. They’ve got four award winning and magazine featured tattoo artists, each with more than 10 years of experience. They have an enclosed glass clean room that is removed from the rest of the shop to prevent cross contamination and is visible from the lobby. Customers can rest assured that all of the equipment in the shop is sterile — they can see the process for themselves. Best Massage Therapist Beth Wilkinson It’s no surprise that Fayetteville’s best massage therapist works at Fayetteville’s best spa. Hailing from Paoli, Penna., and a graduate of Elon University, N.C., Wilkin- son has certifications in sports massage and reflexology. Her goal is to “provide each guest an individually designed massage that supports their specific needs for a profes- sional as well as memorable experience.”