Boé at the Crescent Hotel

This stylish restaurant in the Crescent Hotel offers indoor/outdoor dining in a sleek, modern lounge-type setting. The Dodd Mitchell-designed interior features white umbrellas, leather chaises and a large glass-encased fireplace to make you feel like you’re in a Dwell-approved living room, only a waiter is bringing you delectable mini curry burgers with yogurt dip and herbed garlic fries. The menu, which is billed as both eclectic and casual, offers the requisite sea bass and steak frites, as well as baked brie, market pizza and pesto with sea scallops. For dessert, there’s the do-it-yourself s’mores platter for your table, which they’ll customize for your party whether it’s two or 100. Boe, which is an acronym for Bacchus, Orpheus and Epicurus, the Greek gods dedicated to varying degrees of the good life, caters to the hot and hip, and the cocktails have appropriately come-hither names: Sex Kitten and Happy Ending.

TIPS: The majority of the restaurant is outdoors and sometimes even the heat lamps don’t do the trick, so dress accordingly.