A new review! Ça Va, by Todd English, at the Intercontinental Hotel in midtown Manhattan, three stars. The summary: a few vegetarian options, food that looked good, but was sort of bland. http://withoutbacon.wordpress.com/20...ca-va-3-stars/

You need to try Picholine.

It has long been one of my favorite high end NY restaurants, at least in part because in my opinion it was close to places like John Georges, Daniel and Le Bernardin but a lot less expensive (although still not cheap by any means). We went there last night for dinner. In thinking of this thread, and remembering I thought they had a vegetarian option, I asked the waiter. Indeed, they had a separate vegetarian menu with multiple fixed price (depending on numbers of courses) options as well as ala carte ordering. They had several choices but my wife and I both decided to order from the vegetarian menu and ended up getting the same thing. First course was a mixture of different types of heirloom beets with a horseradish preparation. Main course was vegetarian wild mushroom risotto with pumpkin and black truffle butter. Both were superb. The risotto had an almost explosive flavor. Could not have been happier, even comparing to the non-vegetarian menu. It was really a great meal.

I'll try those veggies in your suggested top restaurants. I've been wanting to be a vegetarian...

Yikes, I fell out of touch updating this thread, and also updating the blog for a little bit. But I'm back!

New reviews that are up:
Toloache (Mexican) http://withoutbacon.wordpress.com/20...oache-3-stars/

Devi (Indian) http://withoutbacon.wordpress.com/20.../devi-3-stars/

Celsius ("American") http://withoutbacon.wordpress.com/20...up-restaurant/

In the pipeline are Boulud Sud and A Voce (Columbus).

Also, I jumped on the cheap fare to Brussels earlier this month and will be writing up L'Achepot and L'Atelier de la Truffe Noir.

A trip to Paris is coming up so I will see if I can squeeze in L'Arpege...

By the way -- I'm looking to branch out and maybe get some guest reviews from other cities. PM me if interested!

Hey all, sorry I haven't been keeping in touch via this thread. But I went to a couple of places specifically suggested on here (and some others):

A Voce Columbus: http://withoutbacon.wordpress.com/20...bus-3-5-stars/
Love the bread w/ ricotta!

L'Achepot, (Brussels): http://withoutbacon.wordpress.com/20...ssels-belgium/

Vermillion: http://withoutbacon.wordpress.com/20...llion-3-stars/
Decent Indian-Latin fusion place.

Picholine: http://withoutbacon.wordpress.com/20...ine-4-5-stars/
Picholine was recommended to me on here and I loved it. Probably one of my top 5 restaurants ever. I couldn't believe that it only got one Michelin star!

Tocqueville: http://withoutbacon.wordpress.com/20...ville-3-stars/
I thought this place was decent, but not that impressive. Especially coming so close after Picholine, I was not that impressed. I actually considered downgrading it from 3 stars to 2.5...

Daniel Boulud's latest, Boulud Sud: http://withoutbacon.wordpress.com/20...sud-3-5-stars/
Nice and comfortable restaurant, but quality doesn't suffer.

Junoon: http://withoutbacon.wordpress.com/20...unoon-3-stars/
Michelin-starred Indian, but service was a bit off.

I also went to Arpege in Paris, again thanks to recommendations from people here. Very good food -- review coming sometime soon. I'll also be going to Eleven Madison Park again this week, probably my #1 favorite restaurant overall.