The goal of The Best of Abilene is simply to identify the very best business in each category, according to you, the public. We believe the best judge of a great business is the consumer, not some out of touch panel of judges.

So, we'd love to know who you think is the best in Abilene and the surrounding area when it comes to various businesses in the service industry.

Like last year, we're adding some categories and renaming/adjusting others.

Categories we are adding this year include:

  • Best Wings
  • Best Server
  • Best Bartender
  • Best Desserts or Bakery
  • Best Caterer
  • Best Day Spa
  • Best Hair Dresser
  • Best Barber
  • Best Donuts
  • Best Local Brewery
  • Best Date Night Location

To help streamline the process, we're automatically including as many businesses as possible (based on previous winners and nominees). So, if there's a business missing from any particular category, that's who you should nominate, not the businesses already listed.

The nomination period ends at midnight on May 6th, 2018. Voting will start shortly there-after.

Here are the categories currently represented in The Best of Abilene:

  • Best All-Around Restaurant
    • The Beehive (Abilene)
    • Heff's Burgers
    • Texas Roadhouse
    • Lytle Land & Cattle
    • Copper Creek
    • Taylor County Taphouse
    • Skeet's Texas Grill
    • Cypress Street Station
  • Best Steak
    • Perini Ranch
    • Trent Country Club
    • Lytle Land & Cattle
    • Texas Roadhouse
    • Copper Creek
    • Joe Allen's
    • 5-C Smokehouse
  • Best Coffee
    • Monks Coffee Shop
    • Big Country Coffee
    • Mezamiz
    • Starbucks
    • Fox Coffee
    • Beltway Coffee Co.
    • MAD Coffee
  • Best Chicken Fried Steak
    • The Beehive (Abilene)
    • Lytle Land & Cattle
    • Texas Cowboy BBQ
    • Belle's Chicken Dinner House
    • Cotton Patch
    • Skeet's Texas Grill
  • Best BBQ
    • Stillwater BBQ
    • Sharon's BBQ
    • Betty Roses
    • Texas Cowboy BBQ
    • Al's Mesquite Grill
    • Squares BBQ
    • Joe Allen's
    • Jay's BBQ Shack
    • 5-C Smokehouse
  • Best Asian
    • Hashi Teppan Grill
    • Buffet King
    • Szechuan Chinese Restaurant
    • China Star
    • Bonzai Japanese Steak House
    • Golden Chopsticks
    • Krua Thai
    • Panda Express
    • BoThai Food Truck
    • Little Ninja
    • Mian Bistro
    • Sunrise Chinese
    • Tokyo Asia Fusion
    • Ann's Thai Chicken
  • Best Pizza
    • Vagabond Pizza
    • Brick Oven Pizza
    • Potter's Pizza
    • Little Italy Express
    • Joe's Pizza (Buffalo Gap Road)
    • Joe's Pasta, Pizza, & Subs (Treadaway)
    • Black Box Pizza
    • Papa Murphy's
    • CiCi's Pizza
    • Bosses Pizza, Wings, & Burgers
    • Dante's Pizza
  • Best Burger
    • Rockin Rollerz
    • Heff's Burgers
    • Betty Roses
    • Lucy's Big Burgers
    • Blue Sky
    • Larry's Better Burger
    • Skeet's Texas Grill
    • Rick and Carolyn's Burgers & Fries
    • Gloria's Grill
    • The Beehive
    • Texas Flaming Grill
    • Bosses Pizza, Wings, & Burgers
    • Firehouse Bar & Grill
  • Best Italian
    • Little Italy
    • Joe's Pizza (Buffalo Gap Road)
    • Joe's Pasta, Pizza, & Subs (Treadaway)
    • Little Italy Express (Ambler)
    • Olive Garden
  • Best Breakfast
    • Dixie Pig
    • The Flippin' Egg
    • Cracker Barrel
    • Denny's
    • IHOP
    • Grandy's
    • Huddle House
    • Remington's at MCM Elegante
    • Hilton Garden Inn
  • Best Mexican
    • Abuelo's
    • Farolito Mexican Restaurant
    • Los Arcos
    • Mi Ranchito
    • Chipotle
    • Fuzzy's Taco Shop
    • Monterrey Mexican Restaurant
    • La Popular
    • Casa Herrerra
    • TaMolly's
    • Armando's
    • Mary's Mexican Restaurant
  • Best Bar & Grill
    • The Zone Grill & Bar
    • Buffalo Wild Wings
    • The Firehouse
    • R Sports Bar & Grill
    • Taylor County Taphouse
    • Fat Boss's Pub
    • Breaker's Sports Bar
    • Hooters
  • Best Dive Bar
    • Fatboy's
    • The Pour House (Merkel)
    • Spanky P's
    • The Station
    • Whiskey Girl
    • Homer's Bar & Music Venue
    • The Cabaret
    • Shirts and Skins
    • Lone Star Bar
  • Best Food Truck
    • Rockin Rollerz
    • 1881
    • Jay's BBQ Shack
    • Toasted Traveler
    • Classic Sliders
    • 5-C Smokehouse
    • The Sweet Side
    • The London Express
    • Texas Doughboys
    • Hearts BBQ
    • Tacolote
    • BoThai
  • Best Buffet
    • China Star
    • Buffet King
    • Golden Corral
    • Golden Chopsticks
    • Remington's at MCM Elegante
  • Best Fish & Seafood
    • Sam's Southern Eatery
    • CK Steak and Seafood
    • Copper Creek
    • Perini Ranch
    • The Beehive
    • Red Lobster
    • Catfish Corner
    • Deutschlanders Freshwater Catfish Co.
    • Hooks & Tails
  • Best Restaurant for Kids
    • Gatti's Pizza
    • Chuck E. Cheese's
    • McDonalds
    • Primetime Entertainment
  • Best Breakfast Burritos
    • La Popular Bakery
    • Alfonso Hernandez Bakery
    • Alfredo's (Buffalo Gap Road)
    • El Pulgarcito de America

This is our fifth year of The Best of Abilene awards, so we wanted to make sure the entire process was a good experience for everyone.

Our goal is to give the Abilene area an actual voice while maintaining a high level of integrity and credibility.

With that said, please feel free to let us know which categories you think should be added next year. Thank you.

We reserve the right to dismiss votes we believe are fraudulent. We also reserve the right to re-categorize a business based on our views of said business.

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