Top 100 Independents

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

Top 100 Independents

Prime Steakhouse

Jean-Georges Vongerichten’s throwback formal steakhouse in the Bellagio hotel...

Top 100 Independents

Blue Fin

A bustling spot for seafood, sushi and cocktails in Times Square’s W Hotel...

The venerable steakhouse’s Pub Room serves Oysters Rockefeller, Prime Rib Hash and Miss Keens Burger...

New hand-crafted cocktails have been a popular addition...

Jean-Georges Vongerichten’s take on Southeast Asian street foods, but at New York City prices...

Beyond cheesecake, Junior’s serves three meals a day and offers full bar service...

Of the 12 restaurants among the Top 100 Independents that are located in Chicagoland, nine are in the city and three are in the suburbs. Two of those suburban restaurants—and three in the city—are operated by Gibsons Restaurant Group.

Mario Batali’s sprawling 220-seat dining room and 100-seat patio opened in February 2016; this year the bar became the Tapas Bar.

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

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

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