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2025 Best of Rhode Island Readers' Poll Results

You voted and our team tallied. Here are your favorites in dozens of categories from food to fitness studios.

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2025 Best of Rhode Island Editors' Picks

See where we wined, dined, played and shopped this year.

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Our Favorite Write-Ins from the 2025 Best of Rhode Island Readers’ Poll

We're back for a fourth year with more Matunuck spellings, unhinged entries and redactions.

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2024 Best of Rhode Island Editors' Picks

Our team highlights a variety of deserving eateries, shops, entertainment venues and health and wellness spots throughout the state.

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2024 Best of Rhode Island Readers' Poll Results

You voted and our team tallied. Here are your favorites in dozens of categories from food to florists.

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Our Favorite Write-Ins from the 2024 Best of Rhode Island Readers’ Poll

Another year, another... 'unique' spelling of Valicenti.

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2023 Best of Rhode Island Editors' Picks

From eateries and shops to entertainment venues and health and wellness spots, our editors scoured every inch of the Ocean State to come up with their top picks for 2023.

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How Our Best of RI 2023 Neon Sign Cover Came Together

The neon sign was created by local neon artist Knox Neon and displayed with cocktails at Clementine Cocktail Bar.

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2023 Best of Rhode Island Readers' Poll

From Blackstone Valley to Newport County, RIMonthly.com visitors named the best in the state in an online poll.

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Our Favorite Write-Ins from the 2023 Best of Rhode Island Readers' Poll

Have we been spelling Matunuck wrong all along? What is an iguana doing on Oakland Beach? And will Rhode Islanders ever let "the Dunk" go?

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