Posting on behalf of Nathan:
This is Nathan.
I have little to add to the above. It's all been said. I ate, and drank, with Barry literally hundreds of times when I lived in NY and at least another 30 times after. We first met at Wallse. He never changed and was truly extraordinary. A couple standouts: a prodigiously gluttonous meal at Cafe Gray when Gray Kunz did a final F-U to his investors (I think) as it was closing by basically putting all of the most expensive and rich mains on the menu into one prix fixe; the time that we introduced Frank Bruni to the Staggerac; the early days of Ssam Bar when it was truly something new.
But most of all it was all the people we each met through Barry. He is irreplaceable.