The votes are in, and the winners have been selected for OnMilwaukee's Best Dining 2008. The results of this readers' poll, including an editors' pick, are available in this series of articles that run all October long during Dining Month on OnMilwaukee.com.

October is Dining Month on OnMilwaukee.com. All month, we're stuffed with restaurant reviews, special features, chef profiles and unique articles on everything food. Bon appetit!

OnMilwaukee.com readers have spoken. Ristorante Bartolotta in Downtown Tosa is Milwaukee's best Italian restaurant, and we agree.

For a decade or so, Joe Bartolotta has run one of the most consistently great Italian restaurants in town. And thanks to head Chef Juan Urbieta, the menu has never gone stale.

Urbieta and his crew create great special menus, including ones that focus on the bounty of regional Italian cuisine, spotlighting the diversity of Italian cooking, as well as winemaker dinners that pair great wines with special menus. So, if you're looking for red-checkered tablecloths and 10 versions of spaghetti and meatballs, you'll have to go elsewhere.

If, on the other hand, you like seafood, polenta, risotto, a wine list worthy of exploration, warm and crusty bread, a comfortable atmosphere and an attentive, knowledgeable staff, Ristorante Bartolotta is still the place to go.

OnMilwaukee.com editor's choice: Ristorante Bartolotta

Runners-up:

2. Osteria del Mondo
3. Zarletti
4. Mimma's
tie. The Pasta Tree
6. Louise's
7. Calderone Club
8. Tenuta's
9. Il Mito Enoteca
10. Albanese's
11. Sala da Pranzo
12. Libiamo
13. Third Ward Caffe
14. Venice Club
15. Caterina's