We’ve named the Best of the Best every year for the past 22, and they’ve always meant something. This year, they mean a little more. Each restaurant, watering hole, beauty salon, recreational hub, and fitness studio—and the others, 396 in all—is a testament to resilience in the face of a public health crisis that tested everyone. So patronize, visit, play. We’ve gotten through it together. We’ll handle the future that way, too. Read more >

FIRST LOOK: Dilworth tasting room SouthPark by Cathy Martin Jaffer Kovic developed a passion for wine while studying hotel administration and finance at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He’d planned to go into casinos, but that all changed while he was in school. “I took a wine class and fell in love, and that was it.” The Buffalo, N.Y., native honed his skills working under a couple of master sommeliers in Las Vegas, and later with the Del Frisco’s restaurant group. When