Johnstown Magazine Announces Best of Johnstown 2024 awards (2024)

Here are your results of the

Best of Johnstown 2024

While our printed version and awards dinner on the evening of June 6 only allowed for three finalists to be announced, our online exclusive is including two more -- to give you all five top finalists and the winner (chosen by our readers) in all 89 categories.

Pick up the hard copy Johnstown Magazine's Best Of edition -- available where great magazines are sold -- beginning tomorrow, Friday, June 7.

Favorite All American Restaurant

1) Corner Coffee Shoppe

2) Franklin St. Bar and Grille

3) The Fifth

4) Balance

5) Jake’s

Favorite Italian Restaurant

1) Rizzos of Windber

2) Asiagos

3) Anthony’s

4) Italian Oven

5) Galina's

Favorite Farm to Table Restaurant

1) Balance

2) Craft Modern Kitchen

3) Roots

4) Horn O’Plenty (Bedford)

5) Fat Squirrel

Favorite Pizza

1) Salvatores

2) Santos

3) Capri

4) Pizza Man

5) Primos

Favorite Burger

1) Five Guys

2) Jakes

3) Sweet Spot

4) Tap 814

5) Franklin Street Bar and Grille

Favorite Place for Sushi

1) Nykos

2) Kabuki

3) Osaka

4) Watami

5) Sushi Nori

Favorite Place for Tacos

1) El Jalisco

2) Luna Azteca

3) Scotts by Dam

4) Los Hermanos

5) Stone Bridge Brewery

Favorite Place for Steak

1) Rizzos of Windber

2) Asiagos

3) Pike Inn

4) Hoss’

5) Tap 814

Favorite Place for Dessert

1) Meadows

2) Lambcakes

3) Asiagos

4) Rizzos of Windber

5) Valley Dairy

Favorite Candy Store

1) O’Sheas

2) Gardners

3) Mids

4) Blaine Boring Chocolates

5) Bedford Candies

Favorite Place for Breakfast

1) Corner Coffee Shoppe

2) Valley Dairy

3) Franklin St. Bar and Grille

4) Flood City Café

5) Roots

Favorite Place for Lunch

1) Coney Island Lunch

2) Balance

3) Capri

4) Flood City Café

5) The Fifth

Favorite Place for Dinner

1) Rizzos of Windber

2) Balance

3) Craft Modern Kitchen

4) Asiagos

5) Tap 814

Favorite Outdoor Dining

1) Balance

2) Tap 814

3) Nykos

4) Woodside

5) Johnstown Inn

Favorite Food Truck

1) Flair of Country

2) House of Smoke

3) Rosalinda’s

4) Red’s Texas BBQ

5) Legends Caribbean Grill

Favorite Donuts

1) Lambcakes

2) Asiagos

3) Randy’s Bilo

4) The Pie Shoppe

5) Ryan’s Artisan Goods

Favorite Family Restaurant

1) Rizzos of Windber

2) Hoss’

3) Balance

4) Johnstown Inn

6) Corner Coffee Shoppe]

Favorite Coffee Shop

1) Morning Grind

2) Flood City Café

3) Café Dodie

4) Classic Elements

5) The Write Cup

Favorite Fish Fry

1) St. Benedicts

2) Pyramids

3) Aces

4) Johnstown Inn

5) St. Elizabeth Ann Seton

Favorite Bar Food

1) Woodside

2) The Fifth

3) Johnstown Inn

4) The Haven

6) Windber Hotel

Favorite Gob

1) Lambcakes

2) Solomon Run Fire Hall

3) Custom Cakes and Cookies

4) Dutch Made

5) Life’s a Treat

Favorite Place to Impress a Date

1) Asiagos

2) Balance

6) First Commonwealth

Favorite Shoe Store

1) C Gil Shoes

2) Famous Footwear

3) Boscovs

4) Dunhams

5) Shoe Department (Galleria Mall)

Favorite School District

1) Richland

2) (TIE) Greater Johnstown and Windber

4) Forest Hills

5) Westmont

Favorite New Business

1) The Heights Barbershop

2) Roots

3) Elevate

4) Wine Loft on Franklin

5) Feathered Lane

Favorite Legacy/Landmark Business

1) Coney Island Lunch

2) Johnstown Incline Plane

3) George’s Song Shop

4) Arcadia Theater

5) Bantly Hardware

Favorite Tattoo Shop

1) Total Commitment

2) Lemon Bomb Tattoo

3) Screaming Needle

4) King’s Row

5) Kink’d Ink

Favorite Small Engine Repair Business

1) Pristows

2) Stouffers

3) Knipple Auto Repair

4) Petricks

5) Advantage Auto

Favorite Greenhouse/Small Farm

1) Dickert Farms

2) Seads Garden Center

3) Ray’s Nursery

4) Fosbinks

5) Stuvers

Favorite Plumber/Plumbing Business

1) Dan Paros Plumbing and Heating/Paros

2) Brian Hale/ B. Hale

3) Hinkle Plumbing and Heating

4) Remmco

5) TIE - Christian’s Plumbing

Kamzik

Favorite Painting Company/House Painters

1) Elias Painting

2) DJR Painting

3) Whorl Painting

4) Grant Painting

5) Volk Painting

Favorite Home Improvement Company/Contractor

1) McAdams Roofing and Remodeling

2) Mihalkos

3) AG Roofing and Remodeling

4) Grose General Services

5) Hamacek Construction

Favorite Hardware Store

1) Bantly Hardware

2) Ace Hardware

3) Lowe’s

4) Home Depot

5) Cambria Hardware

Favorite Furniture Store

1) Park Home

2) Young American

3) Ashley Furniturer

4) Boscovs

5) Big Lots

Favorite Appliance Store

1) Krisays

2) Lowes

3) Home Depot

4) Daniel Shaffers

5) Home Appliance Center of Ebensburg

Favorite Hair Salon

1) Room 1101 Hair Salon

2) Cliptations

3) Highlighted Honey

4) Peles

5) Studio 801

Favorite Barbershop

1) The Heights

2) Barber and Gents

3) Red’s

4) Self Made Cal Cuts

5) Noble Haircuts

Favorite Gym/Fitness Center

1) Morgainz Fitness

2) Redemption Fitness

3) Fat Jimmy’s

4) Planet Fitness

5) YMCA

Favorite Yoga Studio

1) Redemption Fitness

2) Just Breathe

3) Belmont Wellness

4) Yoga Song

5) Sacred Souls

Favorite Massage Studio

1) Flourish

2) Brandy’s Therapeutic Massage

3) 911 Massage Clinic

4) Laurel Highlands Therapeutic Academy

5) Nemacolin Woodlands Resort

Favorite Primary Care Physican/Health Care Provider

1) Dr. Travis Rearick

2) Dr. Julie Lesneski

3) Dr. Mark Malicki

4) Dr. Ryan Flick

5) Dr. Leonardo Amper

Favorite Chiropractor

1) Synergy

2) Pinnacle

3) Cortex

4) Allison Brady Chiropractor

5) Jenner White

Favorite Veterinary Services

1) Forest Hills Veterinary Services

2) Cambria Veterinary Care

3) Richland Veterinary

4) Ebensburg Animal Hospital

5) Johnstown Veterinary

Favorite Local Art Gallery

1) Bottleworks

2) Gallery on Gazebo

3) Community Arts Center of Cambria County

4) Hertrich Gallery (Somerset)

5) Norman Ed Studios

Favorite Place to Hear Live Music

1) Johnstown State Theater

2) Arcadia Theater

3) Windber Hotel

4) Woodside Bar and Grille

5) 1^st Summit Arena

Favorite Band

1) Silver Screen

2) Octane

3) The Evergreens

4) The Platelets

5) Rust

Best Place for a Live Event

1) 1^st Summit Arena

2) PNG Park

3) Aces

4) Johnstown State Theater

5) Arcadia Theater

Favorite Event/Festival

1) Cambria City Ethnic Fest

2) Flood City Music Festival

3) Thunder in the Valley

4) Johnstown Polka Fest

5) Johnstown Pride Festival

Johnstown’s Best Kept Secret

1) Wine Loft on Franklin

2) Money Man

3) Alchemie

4) Johnstown Fashion Week

5) Johnstown Symphony Orchestra

Favorite Night Spot

1) Woodside

2) Windber Hotel

3) Jada Jazz Café

4) The Fifth

5) The Haven

Favorite Performance of the Year

1) Classic Vinyl Series at Johnstown State Theater

2) Wicked Woods Haunted Trail

3) Flood City Music Festival

4) Alice Cooper at 1^st Summit Arena

5) Miracle Worker at Community Arts Center of Cambria County

Favorite Waiter/Waitress

1) April Eyler/ Wine Loft on Franklin

2) Chloe Whorl/ Stone Bridge Brewery and Craft Modern Kitchen

3) TIE Candy Hoffman/ Eat ‘N Park

Becca Shriver/ Franklin St. Bar and Grille

4) Norah Panek/Balance

5) Trevor Kushner/ Scotts by Dam

Favorite Barista

1) Laken Kurchak/ Mill House

2) Cassady Polacek/ Classic Elements

3) Kayla Adams/ The Write Cup

4) Jack Stringent/ Morning Grind

5) Jason Truscott/ Rustic Blend

Favorite Bartender

1) Dude Petrilla/ Rizzos

2) Brittany Karsaba/ Woodside

3) Shayla Kanuch/ Woodside

4) Trevor Kushner/ Scotts by Dam

5) Katey Frost/ Harrigans

Favorite Chef

1) Becca Bennett/ Stone Bridge Brewery and Craft Modern Kitchen

2) EZ Miller/Asiagos

3) Chef Mustafa/ Jada Jazz Café

4) Mickey Stringent/ Jim and Jimmies

5) Jason Mattes/ Johnstown Inn

Favorite DJ

1) Heidi Roberts/ D.J. Heidi

2) Jack Labarko/Labarkos

3) JR McAfee

4) Zay Brick

5) Dustin Greene/Top Dog Productions

Favorite Hairstylist

1) Casey Ott

2) Angelica Saylor/ 3 Shears

3) Jesse Peles/ Peles

4) Michaela Dickert/ Hair by Michaela

5) Nancy Clemente/ Nancy Faye Salon

Favorite Barber

1) Logan Boyd/The Heights

2) Reese Henderson/ Barber and Gents

3) Matty Harris/ Glam and Glitz

4) Scott Wilson/ Newmans

5) Calvin Anderson/ Self Made Cuts

Favorite Local Writer/ Author

1) Lenny Pinna

2) Russell Shorto

3) James Gindlesperger

4) Nicole Fratrich

5) Robert Jeschinek

Favorite Fitness Trainer

1) Kelly Morgan/ Morgainz

2) Rusty Miller/ Morgainz

3) Kristy Freoni/ Morgainz

4) Stuart Urch/ Urch Training Services

5) Becca LaBar/ Redemption Fitness

Favorite Local Musician

1) Kenny Jubas

2) Bo Moore

3) Jeff Webb

4) Lou Conrad

5) Josh Watts

Favorite Local Visual Artist

1) Norman Ed

2) Amanda Woodruff

3) Alan Rauch

4) Tara Bagley

5) Ashylynne Berkebile

Favorite Local Photographer

1) Stephanie Bosworth

2) Kristin Crocco

3) Karissa Grossman

4) Edward Petrosky

5) Bobby and Serena Bridges

Favorite Local Teacher

1) Amanda Oswalt/Westmont

2) Michael Bako/ Bishop McCort

3) Amanda Petrosky/ Richland

4) Rachelle Hrabosky/ Ferndale Elementary

5) Amber Hale/ ACRP

Favorite Tattoo Artist

1) Georgie Carnevali/ Lemon Bomb

2) Frank Sandoval/ Total Commitment

3) Mike Peruso/ Total Commitment

4) Devin Helmick/ Lemon Bomb

5) Zion Pearson/ Signal Wire

Johnstown Magazine’s 2024 Unsung Hero of the Year

1) TreVon Williams/ Conemaugh Valley basketball coach

2) Money Man

3) Conner Hagins/ Kuddles for Kids

4) Andi Palmer/Operation Be-You-tiful

5) Camillya Taylor/ Camille’s House of Style and Johnstown Fashion Week

'; var element = document.getElementById("sub_message"); element.appendChild(subMessage); console.log("Code Loaded!"); } else { var subMessage = document.createElement('div'); subMessage.id = 'sub-message-top'; subMessage.class = 'panel panel-default'; subMessage.style.background = 'rgba(76, 175, 80, 0.0)'; subMessage.style.borderRadius = '5px'; subMessage.style.padding = '10px'; subMessage.style.marginTop = '25px'; subMessage.style.marginBottom = '25px'; subMessage.innerHTML = '

Support local journalism.

Subscribe Today'; var element = document.getElementById("sub_message"); element.appendChild(subMessage); console.log("Code Loaded!"); }}