"Situations will arise in our lives (like a traffic jam that made you an hour late to your original reservation). But you gotta be smart about it, and heading to West Midtown to dine at Bar Blanc is really the smartest thing you can do when date night is in jeopardy. The small and stylish French bar is where we'd go to drink classic cocktails with a French electronica soundtrack. Très chic. It also serves a prix fixe menu of respectable steak frites, table salad, and bread. A $50 per person price tag will get you a better steak dinner around town. But when our choices are either a costly meal or a night of sleeping alone on the couch, we’ll take the prime rib and unlimited fries with a tasty bearnaise every time. " - juli horsford, nina reeder, jacinta howard