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1. Tao Asian Bistro ($64 mil): Las Vegas
2. Joe's Stone Crab ($35 mil): Miami Beach
3. Old Ebbitt Grill ($26 mil): Washington D.C.
4. Smith & Wollensky ($25 mil): New York City
5. Lava Italian Restaurant ($24 mil): Las Vegas
6. Prime 112 ($23 mil): Miami Beach
7. Tao New York ($22 mil): New York City
8. Gibson Bar & Steakhouse ($22 mil): Chicago
9. Buddakan ($21 mil): New York City
10. Joe's Seafood, Prime Steak & Stone Crab ($21 mil): Chicago
11. Fulton's Crab House ($20 mil): Orlando
12. Joe's Seafood, Prime Steak & Stone Crab ($20 mil): Las Vegas
13. Carnevino ($19 mil): Las Vegas
14. SW Steakhouse ($18 mil): Las Vegas
15. The Hamilton ($17 mil): Washington D.C.
16. Sparks Steak House ($17 mil): New York City
17. Prime Steakhouse ($17 mil): Las Vegas
18. Bob Chinn's Crab House ($17 mil): Chicago
19. '21' ($17 mil): New York City
20. Mon Ami Gabi ($17 mil): Las Vegas
CA restaurants are typically neither about extreme size/volume nor about ridiculous prices. I'd say this has no bearing on the quality of a city's food scene as most of the restaurants on the list are pretty "bla".
Poor Los Angeles. Just a single restaurant in LA (Pacific Palisades) made the list. What's up with that? Even Chicago beat out LA handily.
What's your point? Before answering, consider that one restaurant is Gladstone's, which pulls barely three stars on Yelp and is notorious for relying on its setting.
I counted the number of top 100 restaurants by city:
New York: 29
Las Vegas: 20
Chicago: 7
D.C.: 3
San Francisco: 3
Philadelphia: 3
Seattle: 2
Atlanta: 2
Miami Beach: 2
Boston: 1
La Jolla: 1
Bellevue: 1
Portland: 1
Orlando: 1
Pacific Palisades (Los Angeles): 1
Poor Los Angeles. Just a single restaurant in LA (Pacific Palisades) made the list. What's up with that? Even Chicago beat out LA handily.
There are many restaurants on this list in each of these cities metro area's. They just aren't in city limits. I'm sure L.A. has many outside city limits too.
^^^Nope. CA restaurants are not represented well on this list, and I repeat, I think that's very likely a good thing, and it certainly doesn't translate to the quality of any one particular area's food scene.
The #1 sales volume restaurant in CA is the Slanted Door in SF, which is in the Ferry Building along the waterfront, and while it has a stellar reputation among travel guides and has a good chef and seasoned operator at its helm, it is by no means a defining restaurant for SF's food scene.
The list is dominated by steakhouses and "destination/touristy" restaurants. Neither of which are popular in CA as the food scene is genuinely elevated from that fray. You're really not going to find a lot of steakhouses in either SF or LA. Places like Joe's Stone Crab in Miami Beach or Tao Asian Bistro LV or Buddakan in Chelsea are fly by night tourist traps where you pay more for name or setting than for actual good food.
Places like Joe's Stone Crab in Miami Beach or Tao Asian Bistro LV or Buddakan in Chelsea are fly by night tourist traps where you pay more for name or setting than for actual good food.
Sort of, but not really.
Joe's is known as being decent. It's touristy, but good.
Buddakan is quite popular with locals, and is not touristy, at all. Tao is not really touristy, per se, but is considered a "scene" place definitely not known for food.
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