1st Place: Scooter’s
2nd Place: Church (tied)
2nd Place: Online (tied)
3rd Place: Pioneer Tavern

Sending local fire-and-brimstone evangelicals into a tizzy, you voted Scooter’s (411 Galloway St.) as the best place in all of the Chippewa Valley to meet singles. Easily Eau Claire’s most prominent gay bar, Scooter’s has been offering a meeting place for unattached locals (and a thumpin’ dance floor regardless of your dating status) for over a decade. Demonstrating a diversity in the local single scene, the response “church” was close on the bar’s heels, tying for second place with “online.” (Perhaps there’s a lot of tech-savvy parishioners out there.) This tie allowed notorious meat market Pioneer Tavern (401 Water St.) to slip in at third, due no doubt to the grinding-room-only atmosphere cultivated every Thursday through Friday night. – Mike Paulus