Ben & Jack's Steakhouse on East 44th Street and 5th Avenue offers an elegant and sophisticated setting of dark wood with mirrors, chandeliers and frosted, etched glass screens. There are also private dining rooms that can accommodate private parties catering to as few as six people or as many as 200.

Prime dry aged porterhouse steaks occupy center stage here. The menu includes Maryland crab cake, lobster cocktail, fresh oysters and sizzling Canadian bacon, along with porterhouse steak, filet mignon, prime New York sirloin, rib eye, prime rib and lamb chops. Choice of seafood includes Chilean sea bass, grilled Norwegian wild salmon and broiled or steamed jumbo lobster. For sides, there's German potato, steak fries, creamed spinach, steamed asparagus and sautéed mushrooms. An extensive and diverse wine list, with Napa Valley, Alexander Valley, Sonoma, Rosemount Estate, Toscana, Rioja Reserve and White Star, adds to the pleasure of dining at Ben & Jack's.