05/07/2026
Proud mama sheep over here 🥹🐑
6!!! 🤯🐑🖤
We are beyond honored (and honestly a little speechless) to share that New Times SLO readers voted Black Sheep Bar & Grill the winner of SIX Best of SLO awards this year!!!
🏆 Best SLO Bar
🏆 Best Bartender — Jon 🍸
🏆 Best Mac & Cheese 🧀
🏆 Best Bar for Gen X
🏆 Best Bar for Millennials
🏆 Best Bar for Boomers
Last year, winning 5 awards felt impossible to top… and somehow this incredible community helped us get to 6 this year. We were even told it was the most awards any business has won in one year, which is just surreal.
But the truth is: awards don’t happen because of one person. They happen because of PEOPLE, and that’s what makes me the proudest.
My Sheepies… this place would be nothing without you. Truly. Watching this incredible team work with so much heart every single day — taking care of every person who walks through our doors with genuine care, making them laugh, remembering names and drinks and stories, supporting each other, creating a space where everyone feels welcome —fills my heart more than I can put into words. My beloved Sheepies, these are YOUR AWARDS! 🙏
Jon, the legend behind the bar—absolutely amazing! Nicole, our rockstar bar manager that keeps us all together and makes us the best bar. Humberto, our kitchen king who takes pride in making the best mac & cheese -and much more- every day. Thank you to every single member of our Black Sheep family past and present — our fabulous kitchen crew, bartenders, servers, regulars, friends, community — THANK YOU.
Black Sheep has never just been a bar or restaurant to me. Since 2005, it has been a home away from home. A unique, wonderful, beautiful family with a heart of gold —nested in SLO, who continues to show us love, year after year ❤️
Dear community, thank you for voting, supporting local, cheering us on, growing up alongside us, and embracing our little “home away from home” for all these years, we are endlessly grateful for your support.
Thank you. Our hearts are very full.
This one belongs to ALL of us. 🖤🐑
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