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Top 100 Independents

Restaurant Business magazine ranks the top-grossing independent restaurants in America

Top 100 Independents

Timberline Steaks and Grille

 Dec. 31, 1969

Doubling the number of beer taps, to 20, boosted business at this Denver International Airport spot.

Top 100 Independents

St. Elmo Steak House

 Dec. 31, 1969

The 116-year-old steakhouse's 1933 Lounge celebrates the year Prohibition ended.

Top 100 Independents

Morimoto Asia

Dec. 31, 1969

The restaurant's spacious two-story interior includes 20-foot-long chandeliers and a second-level sushi bar and lounge with a separate entrance.

Top 100 Independents

Le Coucou

Dec. 31, 1969

The New York Post called it "one of the 21st century's four or five best restaurants of any type."

Top 100 Independents

Tao Las Vegas

Dec. 31, 1969

Membership in Tao Group's Suite Sixteen club at Madison Square Garden, opening in October 2018, costs $400,000 (Rangers and Knicks tickets included).

Top 100 Independents

Quality Meats

Dec. 31, 1969

Parent Quality Branded will open a Quality Eats steakhouse in Chicago.

Top 100 Independents

Junior's Restaurant (49th Street)

Dec. 31, 1969

It opened in June 2017, yet still totaled more than $15 million in sales and nearly 800,000 meals served.

Top 100 Independents

Cafe Fiorello

Dec. 31, 1969

A breakfast, lunch and dinner institution across from Lincoln Center since 1974.

Top 100 Independents

Tao Downtown

Dec. 31, 1969

Tao "is intended to look and feel as if it has been there for decades and only unearthed recently to reveal the artifacts within."

Top 100 Independents

Le Diplomate

Dec. 31, 1969

An homage to French culture and cuisine, with a menu that includes steak frites, escargots and bouil

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