Chefs and Restaurants

Contento Makes Dining Accessible for Disabled Guests. You Can Too.

I met Sommelier Yannick Benjamin back in 2010. I was a plus-one for the soft opening of Junoon, and Benjamin had secured a table through the restaurant’s legend-of-a-somm Scott Carney. All these years later, there’s one memory from that night that really stuck. After dinner, Benjamin wheeled nine blocks north to the subway, even though there was a station around the corner. Another friend had to explain: Penn...