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Top 100 Independents

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

Top 100 Independents

Blue Fin

 Oct. 13, 2017

Blue Fin parent B.R. Guest has been absorbed into the Landry’s hospitality mega-corporation.

Top 100 Independents

Old Ebbitt Grill

 Oct. 13, 2017

Getting better with age, Old Ebbitt Grill, opened in 1856, welcomed more than 1 million customers in 2016.

Top 100 Independents

Abe & Louie’s

Oct. 13, 2017

New tactics to increase its email database helped sales in 2016, as did a fall lunch promotion.

Top 100 Independents

The Boathouse Orlando

Oct. 13, 2017

The concept, managed by Gibsons Restauant Group, moves into the top 10 in its first full year of operation.

Top 100 Independents

Lavo New York

Oct. 13, 2017

Decor for this industrial-chic Italian restaurant uses antique mirrors, reclaimed subway tiles and bricks repurposed from old factories.

Top 100 Independents

Smith & Wollensky

Oct. 13, 2017

Its annual Wine Week promotion gathers 10 wines, each priced at $20.

Top 100 Independents

Bryant Park Grill & Cafe

Oct. 13, 2017

The sales total includes $3.4 million from the Southwest Porch bar, burger cafe and outdoor beer garden in Bryant Park.

Top 100 Independents

Gibsons Bar & Steakhouse (Chicago)

Oct. 13, 2017

The original, housed in what once was Chicago’s legendary Mr. Kelley’s nightclub space.

Top 100 Independents

Junior’s (Times Square)

Oct. 13, 2017

Owner Alan Rosen says that when the location opened in 2006, its “Brooklyn NY” sign confused subway riders who thought they had exited at the wrong stop.

Top 100 Independents

Vandal

Oct. 13, 2017

Tao Group’s latest New York hot spot opened in early 2016 and still made the cut.

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