Restaurant Scene: Benton's is the champagne of bacon, and this where you can eat it in Chattanooga.
Allan Benton doesn't care if his alma mater, the University of Tennessee, dubbed him the "King of Country Ham" or if Nashville-based writer Chris Chamberlain called him the "East Tennessee Bacon God" or if Southern food pundit John T. Edge referred to him as "One of America's greatest artisans."
Source: timesfreepress.com