New York City may be home to the most independent restaurants in the Top 100, but Las Vegas is a close second with 15. While that other big gambling town, Atlantic City, struggles, Las Vegas is thriving thanks to a stable tourist base of 3.5 million visitors a month. Sin City ranked as the No. 3 best place to open a restaurant on RB's 2015 Restaurant Growth Index.
Restaurant | Rank | Sales |
| Tao Asian Bistro | 1 | $47,000,000 |
| Joe’s Seafood, Prime Steak & Stone Crab | 15 | $20,900,000* |
| Carnevino | 17 | $19,900,000* |
| SW Steakhouse | 18 | $19,300,000* |
| Prime Steakhouse | 23 | $17,600,000* |
| Mon Ami Gabi | 27 | $17,200,000* |
| Top of the World | 39 | $16,200,000* |
| Lavo Italian Restaurant | 42 | $16,000,000 |
| Craftsteak | 43 | $16,000,000* |
| Jean-Georges Steakhouse | 69 | $14,100,000* |
| Delmonico Steakhouse | 74 | $13,800,000* |
| N9NE Steakhouse | 76 | $13,660,000* |
| Spago | 91 | $12,600,000* |
| Bartolotta Ristorante Di Mare | 94 | $12,300,000* |
| Fix | 98 | $12,050,000* |
*RB Estimate; all rankings based on 2014 sales
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