Top 100 Independent Restaurants Nationally By Gross Revenue

[Min-Chi-Cbus]

Originally Posted by 18Montclair

The Slanted Door is the highest revenue restaurant in CA? We have very good taste then.

It was honored with the James Beard award as the nation's most outstanding restaurant earlier this year.

San Francisco's The Slanted Door named nation's top restaurant | www.ktvu.com

It sounds like the door is slanted though, which typically is a bad sign when fielding restaurants...

[the resident09]

This list has been updated since 2017:

1 Tao (Las Vegas) Las Vegas

2 Joe’s Stone Crab (Miami Beach Fla.)

3 Tao Downtown (New York N.Y.)

4 Carmine’s (New York) New York N.Y.

5 Old Ebbitt Grill (Washington D.C.)

6 The Boathouse Orlando (Orlando Fla.)

7 Lavo New York (New York N.Y.)

8 Smith & Wollensky (New York N.Y.)

9 Bryant Park Grill & Cafe (New York N.Y.)

10 Gibsons Bar & Steakhouse (Chicago)

Top 100 Independents 2017

[the resident09]

11-20.

11 Junior’s (Times Square) (New York N.Y.)

12 Vandal (New York N.Y.)

13 Prime 112 (Miami BeachFla.)

14 Tao Uptown (New York N.Y.)

15 Joe’s Seafood, Prime Steak & Stone Crab (Washington D.C.)

16 The Hamilton (Washington D.C.)

17 Joe’s Seafood, Prime Steak & Stone Crab (Las Vegas Nev.)

18 Bottega Louie (Los Angeles Calif.)

19 St. Elmo Steak House (Indianapolis, Ind.)

20 Joe’s Seafood, Prime Steak & Stone Crab (Chicago, Ill.)

http://www.restaurantbusinessonline....ependents-2017

[2e1m5a]

Originally Posted by DynamoLA

I am confused how three different "Joe's Stone Crab" restaurants can be called "independent".... Aren't they a chain if there is more than one?

There is only 1 Joe's Stone Crabs in Miami Beach. It was a fun experience but give me Maryland/Jersey/Delaware blue crabs any day over stone crabs.

[sobchbud1]

Originally Posted by 2e1m5a

There is only 1 Joe's Stone Crabs in Miami Beach. It was a fun experience but give me Maryland/Jersey/Delaware blue crabs any day over stone crabs.

I love that stone crabs are truly sustainable and renewable as only one claw is harvested and the crabs are thrown back into the sea to regenerate a new claw.

[2e1m5a]

Originally Posted by sobchbud1

I love that stone crabs are truly sustainable and renewable as only one claw is harvested and the crabs are thrown back into the sea to regenerate a new claw.

Do they grow new claws? I've caught many one-clawed crabs. That is pretty cool though either way-the claws are the best part for me.

[aries4118]

Top 100 Independents 2017