Sometimes you need to pre-game at individual national stores before hitting the cacophony of a mall, and Kenwood is just the place to do it. The TJ Maxx-Marshalls-HomeGoods-Michaels combination on Kenwood Road are the best beacons to the bang-for-your-buck shopping strips that dot the entire area. Who doesn’t love thumbing through the giant rug rack at HomeGoods, feeling all the soft blankets at TJ Maxx, smelling the candles at Marshalls or scooping up cake-decorating supplies at Michaels? Dangerously close to one another, these stores give “window shopping” a whole new meaning and put you into the right frame of mind for the money suck that awaits in the department stores at Kenwood Towne Center. marshalls.com.

Here are the 2023 Best Of Cincinnati® Reader and Staff Pick winners for Shops & Services.

1. Jungle Jim's International Market
2. The Party Source
3. Liquor Barn (Formerly DEP's Fine Wine & Spirits) TIE
   4. Marty's Hops and Vines TIE

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1. Beelistic Tattoo


2. Skincraft Piercing & Tattoo


3. Hybrid Image

1. Cincinnati Museum Center
2. Parky’s Farm
3. Super Parties TIE
   4. Dave & Buster’s TIE

1. Top Golf


2. Toyko Kitty


3. MadTree Brewing

1. Richter & Phillips


2. Schwartz Jewelers


3. Monmouth Jewelers

1. Fern


2. Natorp's Nursery Outlet


3. A.J. Rahn Greenhouses

1. Mandell-Brown Plastic Surgery Center


2. McKenna Cosmetic Surgery Center


3. The Plastic Surgery Group

1. Apollo Home


2. Jolly Plumbing


3. Zins Plumbing

1. Tiffany Brogden


2. Jordan Nicely


3. Nick Foltz

1. Sibcy Cline


2. Keller Williams Realty


3. Pivot Realty Group

1. Maple Knoll Village


2. Twin Lakes


3. Marjorie P. Lee

1. Mt. Lookout Shoe Repair


2. D & P Shoe Repair


3. Clarence Howell Shoe Repair

1. Jungle Jim's International Market


2. Hemptations


3. High on the Hill

1. H&R Block


2. The Tax Man


3. Orcutt & Company CPA

1. Churchill's Fine Teas


2. Jungle Jim’s International Market


3. Coffee Emporium

1. Christ Hospital Urgent Care Red Bank Rd.


2. Bluegrass Urgent Care


3. CareFirst Urgent Care - Beechmont

1. Cincy Vapors


2. Lefty's Tobacco Plus


3. Galaxy Vapors

1. Noah's Ark Animal Clinics


2. Animal Care Center


3. Grady Veterinary Hospital