This year’s Restaurants and Institutions list of the nation’s 100 highest-grossing independent restaurants contains the same four San Francisco establishments as last year’s, but their places have shifted, with The Slanted Door topping the local list.
The Charles Phan flagship, which brought in $15,495,332 in 2008, came in at no. 27 on the latest list, up from no. 70 last year. Scoma’s ($15,229,280), which last year topped the local list and came in 23rd nationally, got bumped down to no. 30. Boulevard ($12,697,753) ranked 57th overall this year, up from 59th last year, while The Cliff House ($11,500,000) fell to 83rd this year from 79th last year.
The highest grossing restaurant in the country is Las Vegas’s Tao, with an overall income of $68,406,696. New York has 30 restaurants on the list, while Vegas claims 25.
Check out Grub Street’s analysis of the New York picks, and pop over to MenuPages blogs in Chicago, South Florida, and Boston, for a look at the list-toppers in those markets.
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