Restaurants have until May 31 to get votes in five public categories, while nominees for bigger awards are chosen by an anonymous panel of food experts.
Michelin remains the most important restaurant award that chefs and restaurateurs care deeply about, overshadowing the multitude of other award schemes.
At seven-, 14- and 62-years-old, these three restaurants were hardly flashes in the pan and yet they will all be gone too soon. We'll miss Ugly Baby for its unapologetically spicy, make-your-nose-run Thai food, M. Wells for bringing the excesses of Joe Beef-style dining to Queens, and La Grenouille for hanging on as so many of its contemporaries disappeared.