2018 Best of Biz Winners: Service

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Reader Pick: Cloud Creative Events

Cloud, founded by KC Cloud, is a wedding specialist, providing up to full-service planning and production, including venue choice, vendor vetting and coordination, and event design.

Cloudcreativeevents.com

Editors' Pick: Grit + Gold

Grit + Gold is a full-service wedding planning and design studio, offering to act as creative director, find and vet vendors, and manage logistics.

2060 Kenley St., gritandgoldweddings.com

Reader Pick: CrossFit 817

CrossFit 817's training program combines methods from weightlifting, gymnastics and high-intensity cardio and offers results for everyone from out-of-shape people to topflight athletes.

12803 Harmon Road, crossfit817.com

Editors' Pick: Goss Fitness

Goss estimates it's provided hundreds of clients with fitness training throughout the Dallas-Fort Worth area since its founding in 2006. Goss recently opened a flagship location on the west side of Fort Worth, offering training for people of all levels of fitness.

6445 Southwest Blvd., gossfitness.com

Reader Pick: Salon Dexterity

Started in 2005 by Ann Powders, Salon Dexterity's clients can choose anything from a trendy hair color to a traditional cut in a relaxing, low-pressure environment.

6108 Bryant Irvin Road, salondexterity.com

Editors' Pick: Charlie + Co.

The brainchild of Charlie Price, who's done hair for Charlize Theron and Kendall Jenner, Charlie + Co. has locations in Fort Worth and Dallas.

1057 Foch St., Ste. 1057, charlieandco.com

Reader Pick: The Cryo Spa of Fort Worth

As its name suggests, the Cryo Spa uses whole body cryotherapy – meaning cold temps. Cryotherapy has been shown in early medical research to potentially aid in pain relief, weight loss, reduction of inflammation, dementia prevention, reduce depression and anxiety, decrease symptoms of eczema, and treat migraines.

1011 Foch St., thecryospafortworth.com

Editors' Pick: HydroPros IV

Dehydrated from athletic overexertion, fatigue and illness, hangover, or migraine? HydroPros IV is here to help, either at its office or mobile.

5501 Thelin St., Ste. 107, ivhydropros.com

Reader Pick: Higginbotham

Higginbotham was formed in 1948 as a small insurance agency in Fort Worth. Today, it's one of the nation's 100 largest independent brokers and continues to expand into new geographic markets and lines of business.

500 W. 13th St., higginbotham.net

Editors' Pick: Gus Bates Insurance & Investments

Founded in 1966 by entrepreneur Gus Bates, the Fort Worth agency today remains under family control, headed by son Gus S. Bates. Its full-service offerings include commercial property and casualty, employee benefits, financial services, personal property and casualty, retirement plan services, and individual health care.

3221 Collinsworth St., gusbates.com

Reader Pick: Paxton Place Design

“Traditional with a Twist,” “Eclectic Haven,” “Artistic Farmhouse” – Paxton Place owner Stacie McCans' design eye is wide-ranging. Follow the design studio on Instagram for inspirations like Otomi floor lamps, wallpapered ceilings and hand-painted kitchen tiles.

3620 Hamilton Ave., paxtonplacedesign.com

Editors' Pick: Beckley Design Studio

Interior designers Kelley Parker Roberts and Rebecca Warner Atkinson like to say they spent their childhoods augmenting their surroundings – their bedrooms, friends' bedrooms, favorite hideouts. They met serendipitously as adults. And in 2011, they started their Beckley Design Studio.

3508 Lovell Ave., beckleyds.com

Reader Pick: Chandelier Nail and Brow Bar

Chandelier is an upscale salon next to TCU, specializing in manicures, pedicures, threading and waxing.

2713 W. Berry St., Find Chandelier Nail and Brow Bar on Facebook

Editors' Pick: European Nail Spa

European Nail Spa is a longtime Fort Worth favorite, specializing in manis, pedis, waxing, facials and eyelash.

5242 S. Hulen St., europeannailspafortworth.com

Reader Pick: Daireds

Daireds, the popular south Arlington salon, has been highlighted among the top American salons by ELLE Magazine, combining the feel of a salon and spa with amenities that enable it to host corporate and private events.

2400 I-20 Frontage Road, daireds.com

Editors' Pick: Massage Therapy by Lana

How will you feel after a massage from Lana Lambert, in-house massage therapist for The Salon Upstairs in the South Main Village on Fort Worth's Near Southside? “Unconscious,” one of the magazine's loyal readers and a customer of Lambert's tells us. Alrighty then.

Find Massage Therapy by Lana on Facebook

Reader Pick: Local Barber of Fort Worth

Who knows when Fort Worth became the go-to place for cool barbershops? But, who cares, because guys like Johnathon Razo, owner of Local Barber of Fort Worth, are making us all look good. Earlier this year, Razo took over and remodeled his grandfather's 900-square-foot barbershop in Sundance Court. You'll find the traditional barbershop, furnished with ornate, refurbished 1910 and 1920s barber chairs.

115 W. 2nd St., Ste. 108, localbarberfwtx.com

Reader Pick: J & V Painting

J & V is a partner with Fort Worth Magazine in our Dream Home projects, so we're not surprised to find our readers like them, too. J & V, started in 1975 by brothers Jon Nappier and Vance Nappier, has grown to six painting teams. Today, Jon Nappier and his daughters, Sara Hiett and Kim Nappier, run J & V.

jandvpainting.com

Editors' Pick: Southern Painting

It's hard to find reliable painters. Southern was founded in 1989 by Mark Collins, a University of Texas at Arlington graduate. It's since grown to 27 offices nationally, including one in Fort Worth.

4455 Camp Bowie Blvd., Ste.114-116, southernpainting.com

Reader Pick: Hawk Plumbing, Heating & Air Conditioning

Hawk, a family-owned residential and commercial service provider, touts the A+ Better Business Bureau rating its maintained for more than 30 years. The company is licensed, bonded and insured, offers emergency service, provides guarantees for labor and parts, and gives discounts for seniors and military customers.

8506 Spring St., hawkphac.com

Editors' Pick: Baker Brothers Plumbing & Air Conditioning

Baker Brothers has been in business since 1945, offering plumbing and air conditioning and heating services with 160 techicians.

2406 Gravel Drive, bakerbrothersplumbing.com

Reader Pick: Tailoring by Rios

The family-run Tailoring by Rios has been in business for more than 30 years, providing men's and women's alterations and specializing in bridal and eveningwear.

6717 Calmont Ave., tailoringbyrios.com

Editors' Pick: Harper & Jones, formerly D. Jones Clothiers

Founder Drew Jones came up with the idea for custom clothing after he graduated from college, moved to Asia, and bought a custom suit. Intrigued, Jones learned more about suiting's inner workings in his travels across the United States, Europe and Asia. Finding companies using inferior fabrics and construction methods, Jones launched D. Jones Clothiers.

2814 Main St., Ste. 101, harperandjones.com

Reader Pick: Gulliver's Travel Service

Gulliver's has kept its niche in the fast-changing travel agency segment by specializing in cruises and building big vacations for clients, ranging from adventure to celebrations, luxury, and international.

2800 S. Hulen St., Ste. 110, gullivers.com

Editors' Pick: Sanders Travel Centre

Sanders specializes in luxury foreign and domestic travel, using its global network and expertise to construct clients' experiences.

3550 Hulen St., sanderstravel.com

Reader Pick: Indigo Yoga

The magazine's readers heaped the votes on Indigo Yoga, a 12-year-old studio run by Brooke Hamblet that opened in 2006 off of Camp Bowie Boulevard. The initial studio was large enough for 20 students per class. Indigo expanded twice; then, in 2016, it created a new studio nearby with locker rooms, showers, staff lounge and meditation room.

5111 Pershing Ave., indigoyoga.net

Editors' Pick: The Sanctuary Yoga Room

Sanctuary runs a series of classes with lots of cool names, like Flow, Slow, Fly, New, Bliss, Cheers, Rise and Zen. The bulk of its classes are done in temps of around 85 degrees. There's something for every level. There's New for beginners. And then there's Flow: “You will move quickly and often. You breathe deeply with great rhythm. You will sweat. You will work hard and play hard. You will leave feeling wrung out and simultaneously rejuvenated. Prepare for a righteous yoga buzz.”

5808 Edwards Ranch Road,thesanctuaryyogaroom.com

 

By Scott Nishimura, Samantha Calimbahin and Kendall Louis

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