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Top 100 Independents

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

Top 100 Independents

The Southern Steak & Oyster

 Dec. 31, 1969

Tom Morales' Nashville hit "combines indigenous flavors with exotic ingredients to offer an authentically Southern experience with a twist."

Top 100 Independents

Prime 112

 Dec. 31, 1969

Prime's 30-day dry-aged steaks include a $74, 22-ounce bone-in rib-eye and a $140, 48-ounce porterhouse for two.

Top 100 Independents

Tavern on the Green

Dec. 31, 1969

Tavern on the Green offers live jazz in the main barroom Friday and Saturday evenings from 6-10 p.m.

Top 100 Independents

15th Street Fisheries

Dec. 31, 1969

Dine upstairs for dinner or more casual downstairs at Fisheries Dockside.

Top 100 Independents

Joe's Seafood, Prime Steak & Stone Crab

Dec. 31, 1969

A 30-ounce porterhouse is $80, but a cheeseburger can be had at the bar for just $18.95.

Top 100 Independents

Quality Italian

Dec. 31, 1969

A Quality Italian was opened in Denver in 2017, and a Quality Meats operates in Miami.

Top 100 Independents

Coffee Shop

Dec. 31, 1969

The Union Square fixture, featured in "Sex and the City," was slated to close in October 2018 after 28 years.

Top 100 Independents

Buddakan

Dec. 31, 1969

Starr Restaurants' flagship says it offers "a surreal atmosphere that marries the serenity of Asia with the flamboyance of 16th-century Paris."

Top 100 Independents

Beauty & Essex (New York City)

Dec. 31, 1969

The New York Times praised its "infectious playfulness," with a pawn shop at the entrance.

Top 100 Independents

Atlanta Fish Market

Dec. 31, 1969

Pano's Fish Market, inside the restaurant, is a retail market and caterer specializing in fresh fish.

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