Best of Patch: Stamford's Italian Restaurants

Tasked with identifying a food-and-drink-related category for our Patch users to rank, your local editors here in Fairfield County quickly came up with "Italian restaurants." 

Who doesn't like pasta?

Today, we're kicking off our in that popular category -- Italian restaurants -- one where each one of us has a strong opinion.

This time around, we're only voting on Italian restaurants, not pizza places.

There are many, almost too many Italian restaurants to choose from in the city, and we're asking you to weigh by:

• Voting in our poll (scroll down to vote)
• Rating and reviewing (scroll down to click on your favorite restaurant)
• which restaurants are missing from the list and why they're the best

Restaurants also represent an area where we see new players come and go all the time -- hopefully more small business owners coming and succeeding than being forced to shut down.

Stamford Patch updates its "Patch Places" directory every day, so please let me know if you're a small business owner who doesn't see your business on Stamford Patch, or if you want to --(or even !)

Here are some of our favorite places, but if we're leaving one off of the list, please let us know in the comments and we'll add it: 

Voting in the poll below is open until 9 a.m. Friday. Ties will be broken by whichever business has the most newly added reviews to its listing. We will announce the winner at 12 p.m. Friday.

So tell us what your favorite Italian restaurant in Stamford is, and tell us why!