There seems to be good places, and you'll probably quickly find out who they are from word of mouth. But they won't be cheap: $7k up. If you want to do it "right" (i.e. for a show car) I think you'll have to pay that kind of money. But that doesn't mean that you can't get a "good" job for around $3k (that seems to be the popular price here in the D.C. area), and I think that this is what most people are looking for from a repaint. Just about every shop you consider will give you an estimate for free.
I looked into this when I wanted to redo my trunk lid, and get some side molding painted. I talked to friends, searched some local forums for experience recommendations, and talked to a whole bunch of body shops. Most of them insisted that I would have to redo my entire car, or it wouldn't look right. That's where I found out about the costs of a complete paint job. The shops that were really well known (i.e. lots of good recommendations) and who kept coming up in conversations were all in the $6-$10k range to repaint the whole car. And honestly, I don't think they were deliberately over charging. They just do higher end work for people who want something different from their car than I was wanting for mine, and that's what they charge.
My criteria were: established shop that had been around for at least 5 years; lifetime warrantee on the paint, good reputation; easy to communicate with; willingness to show me examples of their work; readily available references when I asked; a clean shop when you walked in; and a reasonable price
I ended up finding a local shop to just redo the parts I wanted done and held off on doing a complete repaint. I'm pretty happy with how it came out, and while I had it in there for no extra charge they cleaned up the white top as best they could and polished everything else up (said they buffed the whole car to get some shine back and then used Adam polishes) so that there would be less delta between my shiny newly painted trunk lid and trim molding pieces and the rest of the car. A month later they waxed the newly painted parts, and did everything else again while they were at it. Maybe somewhere down the road I'll do a proper restore on my car, but for the moment I happy that it's at the point where you gotta get up close to see the flaws, and those aren't the parts that got done.