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Best Bets for Dayton-area restaurants [recommendations]

Looking for a new and tasty dining experience — and don't want to be disappointed? Here are our critic's can't-fail choices for several types of restaurants.

Mark Fisher, the Lounge Lizards and the Leadbellies wine and dine all around town to find the best of what Dayton has to offer. Here's what's good and why our critics think so.

Browse the categories below for our picks.

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Best margaritas

Using a combination of reader suggestions and our Lounge Lizard intuition, we set out to find the best margaritas in Dayton. If you've ever ordered a margarita, you know they can be about as different as snowflakes in a snow storm.

Best wings

Who serves up the best wings in the Miami Valley? The hottest, spiciest, juiciest, meatiest, most perfect? We sampled wings from 10 of the best wing spots in a taste test.

Breakfast spots

The bests breakfast spots in Dayton don't always serve up the fare your doctor would prescribe, but don't you find that's often true of many of the tastier options to tempt you when dining out?

Asian buffets

If you're looking for lots of Asian food at a good price, we've got a list of the Asian buffets with the greatest variety of dishes and most frequent turnover — because, really, who wants to eat crusty moo goo gai pan?

Romantic restaurants around Dayton

There is something about a fine meal served in the right atmosphere that can really melt the ice. So we went searching for the Miami Valley's most romantic restaurants.

Restaurants at The Greene

The Greene shopping center in Beavercreek has crashed the Dayton-area dining scene like a meteorite with its high-profile, high-volume restaurants, nearly all of them national chains.

Wine bars

The Miami Valley has gone from zero wine bars to a half-dozen or so in a few short years and they all do an admirable job of serving up fun and interesting wines — and some serve pretty good food, too.

Beer bars

There are many bars in town that have an impressive list of bottle beers — Southern Belle and Jimmie's Cornerstone among others — but there's something about a watering hole sporting a wall of taps where the Miller and Bud domestics of the world are far outnumbered by cool microbrews.

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Find out where you can party with them this weekend [party crashers]

They're totally hot, and they want to party with you. The ActiveDayton.com Party Crashers will be crashing the hottest happenings in town this weekend. Find out where you can party with them (and maybe win some cool prizes). More »