Forbes

“At a time when the New York food media go giddy over ramen shops, tacquerias and pizzerias, there are certain high-end restaurant openings that cannot be ignored, especially if the chef has the name recognition of Jonathan Benno… So his appearance at a restaurant in The Evelyn hotel with his name on the door made it requisite for the New York media to pay court. He won three stars from the Times.

Still, by diverging from the Italian food he prepared at Lincoln Ristorante and the overly detailed food at Per Se, Benno has come wholly into his own and sets a standard for New York chefs everyone else should try hard to meet.” 

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