Bar Omar

In Paris, especially on beautiful summer nights, Chez Omar still has a line out the door, almost forty years after it opened. The French-Algerian restaurant has a full bistro menu, but few people bother with it, because everyone comes for the same thing: dunes of couscous served with vegetable stew and expertly charred meat. Four months ago, Yasmina Guerda, the daughter of Omar himself, opened the first extension of her father’s restaurant, promising Brooklyn the same dreamy offerings.