"The Barbary is a long, sleek restaurant built for seductive optimists with a thing for saffron and triple-digit bottles of Sancerre. Before you know it, you’re feeling as hot as the doe-eyed couple next to you scooping up spiced dips with pillowy flatbread. The Southern Europe-meets-North African menu—yellowtail with brown butter, sea bass crudo, miso tahini—lends itself to stylish catch-ups and sexy little date nights." - heidi lauth beasley, jake missing, rianne shlebak, sinead cranna