Readers' Choice Winner: Louie's Italian Restaurant & Bar

Greenwich Patch and found , a delectable business that's been serving up Italian food since 2008 in Cos Cob, to be their choice for the best in town.

The popular restaurant claimed 20 percent of Greenwich's 68 votes. Runners-up in the new, weekly poll include (8 percent) and a three-way tie between , and (7 percent).

Here's some more information about Louie's Italian Restaurant & Bar: It serves Italian family style dishes including an authentic bowl of spaghetti and rigatoni Nonna, and seafood dishes with offerings like Bass Arrostito and Scampi Arrabbiata. All the pastas are handmade. It's open 7 days a week for lunch and dinner and offers brunch on Saturday and Sunday. There's free delivery on orders of $40 or more.

Next week, Greenwich Patch is looking for the "Readers' Choice: Best Preschool." The voting begins Monday morning.

Editor's Note: An Internet poll is not the most ideal vote-collection system in the world, as we all know. That's why we always strive to be 100 percent clear with our readers at Patch that this is not in any way a scientific poll. Our readers' choice features are designed to be a fun and completely friendly expression of our collective passion for great food, great service or a great product, all close to home. It's also a fantastic way for small and medium business owners — the lifeblood of our local economy — to show how much they appreciate their customers. 

We take a look at comments, reviews as well as the poll, not just any one aspect, in communicating back to readers who among the group of businesses may rise to the top in readers' minds.And even if one business mobilizes more "votes" over another, everyone comes away with a lot of visibility, great displays of loyalty and, best yet, our corner of the web now has a great deal more information about local businesses.

We live and shop here too, so if anyone wants to learn more about how they can interact with their customers on Patch or have any suggestions for future readers' choice features, don't hesitate to reach out to your local editor or Regional Editor Michael Dinan at michaeld@patch.com.