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Best Sushi Bar — Nobu
Best Burger — Country Kitchen
Best Eco—Friendly Burger — John’s Garden
Best Fish ’n’ Chips with a Side of Tourists — Malibu Seafood
Best Falafel — Malibu Mutt (Mandatory with every order: two
buffalo balls.)
Best Cupcake — Malibu Kitchen (Bring a shovel)
Best Place for a Slice — D’Amore’s
Best Place for a Health Blast — The Vitamin Barn
Best Place To Go If You Can’t Decide Between Thai or Sushi
— Thai Dishes
Best Place to Watch the Paparazzi
Attack – The parking lot at Starbucks
at the Malibu Country Mart (Now
they’re moving to The Coffee Bean
and Tea Leaf for added value!)
Best Take-Out — Cholada Thai
Best Smatter Platter — The gigantic iced seafood display at
Beach Cafe’ at Paradise Cove
Best Version of Surf ’n’ Turf — Neptune’s Net (One lobster, one
biker please!)
Café
Best Cocktail (it’s a tie) — The original mojito at Paradise Cove
(thousands pile in for this hefty cocktail), and, by popular
demand, the margaritas at Casa Escobar — on the rocks
Best Chicken Burrito — Coral Beach Cantina
Best Pumpkin Tortellini — Allegria
Best Romantic Restaurant — Inn at the Seventh Ray
Best Restaurant to Get Your Venison On — Saddlepeak Lodge
Best Chain/Fast Food — La Salsa
Best Place to Discover the Greeks Have Come a Long Way
Since Plato — Taverna Tony
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Best Host After Midnight — Fire Marshal Bill at Jack In The
Box
Best Summer Lunch Spot — Tra Di Noi (Tell Joan Steiger,
Bernie Sapphire and Fred Segal we said hi!)
Best Summer Lunch Spot With a View — Geoffrey’s
Best Hostess/ Maitre d’ — Coco Walker at Taverna Tony/
Gustavo at Tra Di Noi
Best Place to Send Out-of-Towner’s — Gladstone’s
Best Place to Try and Get a Cup of Java in Less than Two Hours
— Starbucks Cross Creek
Best Green Supermarket — PC Greens
Best Original Idea — Malibu Times magazine (And, geez, they
didn’t even say thanks)
Best Place For a Meteor to Strike — Pepperdine University
Best Decision Malibu Ever Made — No sewage system (Awww,
c’mon! We aren’t serious)
Best Venue To Contemplate Malibu’s Future — Sewage
Treatment Plant in Tapia Park
Best Place to Practice Your Bad French — With the gentlemen
who run Colony House Liquors on PCH or Monsieur Laforge
at Beau Rivage
Best Place To Have an Inane Conversation With a Woman
With Whom You Can Probably Score Before The Night Is
Over — Blue Lounge at Moonshadows
Best Place To Film a Horror Film — Malibu Riviera Motel
Best Place For a Wild Night Out and a Morning of Sicky –
Sicky Dicky Promotions and Events at the Malibu Inn and
the Sunset
Worst Idea Ever for Malibu — LNG Terminal (Finally vetoed...
way to go governator)
Best Four Spots For Toll Gates — 1) Topanga and PCH; 2)
County Line and PCH; 3) Malibu Canyon and the 101; 4)
Kanan and the 101
Best Choice For Toll Collector — Malibu Carl
Best Sculpture to Get You In a Car Accident — The thoroughbred
outside European Equestrian Supply
Best Place to Get Cracked — Dr. Bruce Parker, DC, Malibu
Health
Best Malibu Protector — Ozzie Silna
Best Choice for Malibu’s Ambassador of Good Will — Angie
Reno
Best Judge — The Honorable Lawrence Mira ( Just ask Mel,
Tommy Lee and Nicole)
Best Cop to Avoid — Officer Kaye (She towed Dusty Pete’s golf
cart for God’s sake)
Best Political Celebrity — Fran Drescher (Know about Johanna’s
Law? She got Bush to think about the “bush!”)
Best Celebrity You’re Most Likely to Run Into — Pam Anderson
Best Place to See a Star of Surf, Rock or Film Eat Breakfast
– Coogie’s
Best Place to Watch Britney Spears Stuff Her Face — Chrome
Hearts
Best Place to Run Into A Celebrity —
Promises Rehab Facility
Best Worst Name for a Malibu Rock Band — FaceHumper
Best Place to Buy a Rock (A Diamond, That Is) — Laura M
Best Eco-Friendly Furniture – Palecek at Malibu Colony
Company
Best Patio Furniture – Oasis at Topanga
Best Mix of a Malibu Store (split decision) – Canvas Art and
Sneakers, and Free City Supershop
Best Surf Shop — Becker
Best Surfboard Collection — Griff Snyder
Best Surf Lessons — Malibu Mike or “Turtle” (aka John
Philbin)
Best Place for Water Rentals — Malibu Surf Shack
Best Place for Diving Equipment — Malibu Divers
Best Bulls-Eye for Target Practice — All Standup Paddle
Surfers
Best Malibu Bum — Cliff
Best Place to Find Malibu Carl — On the stairs at First Point
Best View of Surfrider Beach — End of the Malibu Pier
Best Over-60 Surfer — Men’s: George Carr; Women’s: Janet
MacPherson
Best Mention of Malibu in a song — Malibu Pier by Rake and
the Surftones
Best Instrumental to Play at Happy Hour — Sweet Malibu by
Malcolm Highers
Best Eco-Friendly Spa — Tola Spa
Best Mobile Massage Therapist — Kelly Carson
Best Spa Masseuse — Victoria at Cure Spa
Best Mani/Pedi and Waxing in Your House on the Beach —
Mobile Grooming Diva Barbara Warner
Best Haircut/Best color — Bernie Safire, Hillary Safire
Best Van in Malibu — Ben Marcus
Best New Addition for the Malibu girls — M.A.C. Cosmetics
Best New Buzz About a Store — Oliver Peoples
Best Professional Organizer — Lara Greenberg, Streamline,
Inc. (You know you need it!)
Best Place to Rescue your Hard Drive and Unfinished
Screenplay — Malibu Computer
Best Office with a View of the Ocean — Malibu Towing, Inc.
(Who knew?)
Best Architectural Digest Beach Walk — Billionaire (Carbon)
Beach, from the pier going east
Best Place for a Weekend Stay (Airstreams Welcome!) —
Malibu RV Park
Best Summer Opening — Malibu Beach Inn (now that David
Geffen got his hands on it!)
Best Place to Run Into An Ex — Malibu Courthouse
Best Boutique — Crush
Best Use of Lavender Leather Sliding Walls in a WomenOwned Business — Rockstar Couture Jewelry
Best Place to Find Some Style and Maybe a Little Attitude
– Planet Blue
Best Place to Find That Summer Bathing Suit — Ron Herman
(Missoni in stock)
Best Place to Find Those Summer Sandals — Madison
Best Face-lift — The new Malibu Cinema
Best Mountain Hike — Winding Way to Escondido Falls (Yes,
Malibu has waterfalls!)
Cleanest Strip of PCH — The part adopted by Bart Barker of
Farmers Insurance
Best Place for the Sun To Go Down and
the Lights To Come On — Paradise
Cove, Geoffrey’s, Sunset Restaurant
and Cher’s house
Best-Kept Secret — Coastal access above Geoffrey’s
Best Place to Live Peacefully — Dog Beach
Best Place To Get Away From It All — Serra Retreat Center
Best Place to Take a Deep Breath — Malibu Yoga
Best Patriot — Sylvia, the voter’s registrar outside the Webb
Way Post Office (She’s there every Friday)
Best Customer Service Representative — Chris “Sir Swoop”
Reese at Mail Boxes, Etc
Best Place to hide your money — First Bank
Best Visible Malibu Couple (Forever) — Laird Hamilton and
Gabrielle Reese
Best Upcoming Malibu Event — National Dog Day 2007 on
Aug. 26 (The goal: Get 500 dogs adopted by loving families
Visit www.nationaldogday.com)
Best Place to Pickup Malibu Magazine — At newsstands in
August and thereafter for $3.95, or in your mailbox
For a complete directory go to: www.malibumag.com
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