Mark Bohanan: Taking it Beyond Prime By Chris Dunn Photos of Mark Bohanan by Greg Harrison Food Photography by Robert Lopez
“I
have a AAA personality,” chef and restaurateur Mark Bohanan admits with a self-deprecating grin, as he takes yet another critical glance around the dining room and back toward the kitchen. But he owes no explanation. His AAA personality has earned his restaurant, Bohanan’s Prime Steaks and Seafood, a AAA 4 Diamond Award, among many others, including being named the No. 2 Best Steakhouse in Texas by Texas Monthly.
I pull the line every night, I expedite every day,” he says, adding that he or his general manager, Scott Becker, examine every single plate before it leaves the kitchen. “If the customer doesn’t leave here saying this is the best,” he says, “it (an award) doesn’t mean flip.”
Bohanan’s obsession with quality and his attention to detail are evident in every aspect of his upscale, two-story restaurant and bar, located across from the Majestic Theatre in downtown San Antonio. The “I still cook, I still make the dressings, do quality control; linens are brocaded and perfectly ironed; the service is November-December 2010 | On The Town 85