Benatti opened in January on the stretch of Cambridge Street exiting Inman Square, home to many excellent Portuguese and Brazilian restaurants ... It deserves to be much loved. It earns it with its elegantly laconic menu: three antipasti, seven pasta dishes (and one exquisite risotto), five well-turned entrees, and six desserts that are far better than anyone disillusioned by the average Italian-restaurant dolci has hope to expect.

Pictured, a dessert of roasted apple ravioli is served with a honey-ginger sauce at Benatti.

— Full Globe review (Devra First)

1128 Cambridge St., Cambridge. 617-492-6300. All major credit cards accepted. Wheelchair accessible.

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