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Readers' Choice 2012 Plaques Available for Order

If your business won Readers' Choice, you can now purchase a plaque celebrating your win through American Registry.

 

Earlier this year, Patch's annual Readers' Choice Awards celebrated the best local businesses in town.

In categories ranging from your favorite burger to best produce in town, readers chose their favorites in Los Altos.

We're not done yet celebrating and honoring our Readers' Choice winners. If you want all your customers to know you've been deemed the best among your peers, here's your chance.

Patch is offering Readers' Choice winners the opportunity to buy a plaque from American Registry that you can display in your business. All you need to do is visit www.myamreg.com/patch/10 to preview and purchase your plaque.

Here's our full list of this year's Readers' Choice winners:

Best Car Repair Place: Allied Auto Works of Los Altos

Best Art Gallery Viewpoints 

Best Date Night Spot: Los Altos Grill

Best Pho: A tie between Pho Vi Hoa and Tour Eiffel 

Best Frozen Yogurt: Miyo Frozen Yogurt

Best Outdoor Dining Place: Fiesta Vallarta

Best Breakfast Place: Rick's Cafe

Best Beer and Wine Place: Draeger's Market 

Best Coffee Shop: Main Street Cafe 

Best Sushi Place: Akane Japanese Restaurant

Best Bakery: Los Altos Bakery and Cafe

Best Burger: Maltby's

Best Fruits & Veggies: De Martini Orchard ("De Martini Orchard on San Antonio is the best year-round source of fresh fruits and vegetables, at reasonable prices with friendly, helpful staff," writes Vicki Reeder)

Best Haircut Place: Outrage Salon 

Best Eye Doctor: It's a tie! Altos Eye Physicians and Los Altos Optometric Group

Best Family Dentist: 

Best Shoe Store: Footwear Etc.

Best Pet Groomer: A tie between Beaugay's Grooming and The Barking Lot

Best Bank: A tie between Citibank and Wells Fargo

 

Again, congratulations to all these businesses. Please don’t hesitate to contact Local Editor L.A. Chung at lachung@patch.com or Regional Publisher Brigitte Center at brigitte.center@patch.com if you have any questions.

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Joan J. Strong May 22, 2013 at 11:21 am
Corrections: 1. Straw man attack: nobody is blaming BCS for district-wide growth. Nobody. 2. BCSRead More does not get "half the funding" of LASD. BCS gets about 6500 and LASD gets about 9500. The BCS program for typical children costs about twice as much as the comparable LASD program. BCS is simple an expensive hybrid public/private school, nothing more. 3. Mr. Roode pointed out that there are about 100 or so special ed. students at LASD (I cannot verify this but it seems very low). LASD calls out an annual expense of $7.5 million for special ed. meaning each of these students cost LASD $75,000, not $1,000 as he implied. 4. The law and the courts have ALREADY compelled LASD to give reasonably equivalent facilities and they have. BCS has a lower student/teacher ratio meaning that they have more classrooms for the same number of kids. This is not, legally speaking, LASD's problem. 5. Mr. Roode has yet to explain how the Covington campus could be 16 acres. Further, he continues to spread the fallacy that campuses ACREAGE is even remotely relevant to its student capacity. Campuses are limited by their location and traffic, not how many acres of grass there is in the back. 6. Were it not for BCS, we would have passed a bond in the last election, as the polling shows. BCS litigation has ripped our community apart and has left it with a mountain to climb when it comes to operating in a normal fashion.
L.A. Chung (Editor) May 22, 2013 at 10:37 am
@David R. I think Homestead uses EarthCare Recycling, based on its April 6 E-Waste collection dayRead More publicity (http://bit.ly/10mIV14) : www.earthcarerecycling.com "Recycle FREE your old electronic equipment - working or not! Anything with a plug or PC board inside. Also accepted are non-household batteries, VHS tapes and other media, and scrap metal. Visit www.earthcarerecycling.com for a list of accepted items. "
David R. May 21, 2013 at 10:26 pm
What kind of bins are there? Do you take used CDROMs? How about VHS tapes? Cables and wire?
David R. May 20, 2013 at 01:18 pm
I saw a public report that said most of the discussion related to carpooling and so forth, sinceRead More Blach is separated so much from the rest of the school. You know, things like dropping off both kids at Egan, and then a group of kids headed for Blach share a ride or vice versa. I don't see how any nonparents can really help with that.
mtnview_parent April 12, 2013 at 03:06 am
The only problem with the charter school is that they cause more problem than they solve. TheyRead More want to close Covington, then Blach. So, they don't provide flexibility at all. They keep going to court. This is a case were the remedy is worst than the disease. The original idea is that we have to be creative with the 10th site. Land is scarce, and most likely, we cannot provide the same facility than other school within the district. People are not happy about being moved from their school (with good reason I feel) Solution: provide an inspiring project. May be an immersion program, or a more academic program, or maybe a program to help english learner from K-3. If we don't innovate with a more flexible program, we might just need to redraw the boundaries every 5-7 years. Nobody can foresee the future, but you can build flexibility.
Mitch Caldwell April 11, 2013 at 11:36 pm
Maybe offering a magnet school could help with stability? It can balance out enrollment at otherRead More schools so that attendance boundaries do not have to be redrawn. Isn't the charter school doing that for the LASD district right now?
mtnview_parent April 11, 2013 at 10:36 pm
I saw you had a good discussion on the definition of a neighborhood school. But beyond theRead More definitions, I would like to ask why does palo Alto school District and Cupertino School district have a mix of neighborhood school and some choice school. Those are two high performing district right next to us. Can a choice school be an excellent way to stop the highly disruptive attendance boundary change ? People say I am for statu quo, that I am against change. I feel that family and children need stability, that is why we don't change spouse at the pace the BoT change the attendance boundary. People who want some stability at home (and their school) do make a reasonable request.