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.

The Bartolotta Restaurant Group's Lake Park Bistro is known locally -- and in other cities as well -- as Milwaukee's authentic French dining experience. The cuisine is elegant and rich and the dessert menu is certainly no exception.

There are just two words to keep in mind while dining at Lake Park Bistro: Save room.

That's because you, gentle readers, have again declared that this East Side restaurant has Milwaukee's best desserts. Lake Park Bistro also won the title in 2007. Last year, you selected Sandy D'Amato's Coquette Cafe, which comes in second in 2009.

If not completely stuffed after chef Adam Siegel's veau roti a la Bordelaise (veal tenderloin in a Bordelaise sauce) or canard "deux façon" a la sauce marchands de vin (duck two ways with red wine sauce), diners can choose from decadent dessert options such as banana bread pudding with a caramel sauce and chocolate mousse sweetened with crushed praline and accented by a saffron vanilla sauce and homemade mint ice cream.

Of course, there are slightly "tamer" selections, such as peach melba, which combines sweet fruit with raspberry sauce, homemade vanilla ice cream and freshly baked lemon pound cake.

OnMilwaukee.com editors' choice: Elsa's on the Park

2. Coquette Cafe
3. Sanford
4. Bacchus
5. Beans & Barley
6. The Knick
7. Dream Dance Steak
8. Hotel Metro
9. Elsa's on the Park
10. Mimma's
11. Roots
12. Kil@Wat
13. Bosley on Brady
14. Highland Park Pies and Cafe
15. La Reve
16. North Shore Bistro