Ben Benson's is one of New York's great steak houses. Manhattanites and visitors rub elbows with celebrities, politicians, sports stars and business executives, over huge juicy steaks, three-to-seven pound lobsters and fantastic Benson crispy hashed browns. A distinctive feature is that you will find the restaurant's best customer name lit up in neon lights! They also feature many of their...
New York has been overrun lately with modern steakhouses whose sights are set on reinventing the classic meat-and-potatoes meal. Ben Benson's, however, has been serving dry martinis and hefty slabs of good steak to its clientele for years,…
There are better steaks to be had in New York, but there aren't many better steakhouses than Ben Benson's. Located smack in the middle of midtown, Ben Benson's is loud and large and though it's definitely a man's man's man's world at Ben's, women are treated with "respect" here. You may not be one of the regular beefy football players who frequent the restaurant, or a baseball Hall-of-Famer,...
Steaks for suits and spendthrifts--and the best crab cakes in town.:
The Scene
A happy-hour Pamplona. When the quittin' bell rings along 6th Avenue, junior execs spill out of glass towers and herd to the bar of this raucous and masculine steakhouse. The...