"People come to Barrique in hopes of getting laid. It's an objectively romantic setting (an old, yellow bungalow on Main Street) and everyone inside happens to be stunning. We don't quite understand how this works, but it does. Is their squid ink linguine with lobster the most inventive Italian food on the Westside? Of course not. But you’re not at Barrique to debate al dente execution. You’re here to drink a bunch of red wine at a candlelit table, flirt with waiters and/or your date, and feel what Venice might have felt like four decades ago." - brant cox, sylvio martins, nikko duren