Tampa Bay’s best local businesses, bartenders, politicians, strippers, friends, friends of strippers, and more will be decided over the summer in the 2026 edition of Creative Loafing’s Best of the Bay awards.
In the reader’s poll, there are over 551 awards to win across nine groups including:
- Arts
- Beauty & wellness
- Drink
- Entertainment
- Food
- Goods
- People
- Places
- Services
The nomination period in Creative Loafing Tampa Bay’s Best of the Bay 2026 reader’s poll runs through midnight June 10 and lives at vote.cltampa.com.
Nominations can be made once a day. The top 15 nominees will move onto the voting round, and winners will be revealed at Creative Loafing’s big Best of the Bay 2026 party happening this fall inside the Hard Rock Event Center at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino…