Quotables

"Our growth was always different than other places, because we are trying to avoid becoming trendy... Look at BondSt and Bardot. They both graduated the trendy phase and survived." - Restaurateur and empire builder Amir Ben-Zion tells Short Order on how he's managed to craft places that have permanence like Gigi, BondSt, and Bardot, and most recently his newly opened Cooper Avenue and South Street Restaurant & Bar which are certainly hot. [SO]