They came out of nowhere, or so it seemed, two brothers from Springs, a small hamlet within East Hampton, New York. It was once a quaint farming community mostly appreciated by New Yorkers wealthy enough to collect art. Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning lived and worked there.
Daniel Bennett, 37, and Evan Bennett, 34, who operate two Manhattan restaurants, never expected to go into the business. Mother was a nurse practitioner; father, a lawyer. It wasn’t in their genes, though Evan, the chef in the partnership, started mixing potions in the family kitchen when he was about six. “They were probably horrible,” he recalls, “but maybe it helped me develop a palate.”
