Tabla, a nouveau Indian place near Madison Square Park (not to be confused with Madison Square Garden)that we went to for our anniversary dinner -- we could only afford it because we got a gift certificate as a wedding present from canny friends;

The Ethiopian Restaurant (nothing like a straightforward name) up here in our neighborhood, on York at 84th Street. I actually like it better than Meskerem, which I gather is the best-known Ethiopian place in the Village;

Staying in our neighborhood for a minute, the Saigon Grill on 2nd and 88th is delicious Vietnamese, with marvelous cold vegetarian summer rolls;

A little further south, Penang has spectacular Malaysian food (just ask Zilla);

Over on the West side, on Columbus or Amsterdam (can't remember), in the low 80s, there's a really good Tibetan place whose name escapes me, but they serve dumplings with this killer hot-pepper sauce;

Again without a name (sorry), I went to a...uh, well I'm getting tired of saying "delicious"...really really good tiny Korean restaurant in the East Village, on St. Mark's Place near 2nd Ave. (even better than West Knox's Korea House, tho Korea House is no slouch);

There's a whole string of Turkish restaurants on the East side in the 60s and 70s, so last week I wandered into one called Sultan somewhat randomly and ordered a couple of appetizers and about went to heaven (or whatever the Turkish equivalent is) -- shredded zucchini pancakes served in a warm tomato sauce drizzled lightly with cream, grape leaves stuffed with rice and nuts, Turkish coffee, and then these little honey puff pastries for dessert...oh man...;

For Indian, I love Dakshin, which has a place up near me where I can go for lunch buffets and also a place in Midtown that we can order from for the office;

There's a Ukrainian diner called Veselka down near St. Mark's (you can tell where I spend the most time from where I eat, huh?), justly famous for its amazing pierogies and also good for just plain old brunch if that's more your style;

And I can't leave out Bagel Bob's around the corner, which is responsible for a good handful of meals a week for me -- swiss cheese sandwiches on a toasted poppy seed bagel, what more could you want?

Sorry. I'd never tried to tabulate my eating preferences before. Mmm, I'm hungry all over again, and I just ate. Of course, there are also zillions of Italian places and seafood places and so forth, and we've been to a lot of those too, but the ones above are the places that best cater to my vegetarian taste buds.