Author: John Curtas

Friday Snaps, Slaps and Snacks

It’s come to our attention that some of our more demanding readers expect full blown reviews with each of our posts — when (sometimes) the constraints of time, attention, energy, laziness, excessive imbibing, and actually having to earn a living to support our ourselves make such extensive prose difficult on a daily basis.

So instead of letting anyone down, we thought we’d begin a feature we’ll hereinafter (ELV loves talking like a lawyer-at-law) call Friday Snaps, Slaps and Snacks — a weekly compendium of places that, for one reason or another, do not merit much more than a cursory shout out or put down.

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The Top 100 Independent Restaurants 2010

R&I’s Top 100 Independent Restaurants 2010: The Rankings

The highest-grossing independent restaurants in the United States had combined food-and-beverage sales of $1.37 billion last year, significantly off from the previous year’s aggregate of $1.52 billion.

Kelly Killian — Restaurants & Institutions, March 29, 2010

(ELV note: Vegas has 18 of the top 100 money-making restaurants in the U.S. of A., including Tao, by far the number one grossing restaurant with over $59 mil in sales. Most of our big hotel behemoths — places seating between 200+ diners — shoot for revenues of around a $1mil/month. Recently closed places like Restaurant Charlie and David Burke were well under those projections . In Charlie’s case, his gross revenues for ’09 were under $4 mil. — not bad in any other city in America, but a death knell here.)

Click after the jump to view the entire list.

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