The votes are in, and the winners have been selected for OnMilwaukee's Best Dining 2009. 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. 

Milwaukee can be a real home-grown kind of town. We appreciate a warm, hearty meal just about any time of year, so it comes as little surprise then that when it came time to pick our favorite comfort food restaurant, we had plenty from which to choose.

This was a new category for the Best Of Dining contest this year and the majority of you picked old favorite Kopp's Frozen Custard as your favorite comfort food stop in the city.

Kopp's has been a local custard staple since the classic '50s and, thankfully, it hasn't changed all that much over the decades. There are now three area locations -- Glendale, Brookfield and Greenfield -- so a double cone and a jumbo burger are never too far away.

People love Kopp's for its traditional chocolate and vanilla, but also for its innovation -- it was the first custard stand to offer a special "flavor of the day." And the banana splits, fudge delights and turtle sundaes are absolutely unbeatable.

As for the editors at OnMilwaukee.com, well, we just can't seem to get enough of Comet's signature meatloaf with beer gravy; it's the thickest slice of 'loaf you're likely to find and it's served with bacon-chive mashed potatoes.

Here's how the rest of the competition fared.

OnMilwaukee.com editors' choice: Comet Cafe

Runners-up:
2. Maxie's Southern Comfort
3. Comet Cafe
4. Honeypie
5. Miss Katie's Diner
6. Palomino
7. Machine Shed
8. Real Chili
(tie) Three Brothers
10. AJ Bombers
11. OMega
12. Polonez
13. Motor
14. Kil@wat
15. Mr. Perkins
16. Old Town