Burbank’s Castaway, West Hollywood’s Boa Steakhouse, and Santa Monica’s two-Michelin-star Mélisse are among the many high 100 grossing impartial eating places within the nation, in keeping with commerce publication Restaurant Enterprise. Regardless of being the second largest metropolitan space within the U.S., the Los Angeles space solely has seven eating places on the publication’s annual listing, which is usually populated by companies in Chicago, New York Metropolis, Las Vegas, and South Florida. In comparison with these locales, Los Angeles eating places merely don’t have the massive footprints or large dinner expenditures that the likes of Maple & Ash in Chicago, Lavo in New York Metropolis, or Prime of the World in Las Vegas can garner.
The best-ranking LA-area restaurant on the listing, Castaway, is available in at quantity 35 with round $18.3 million in gross sales. Castaway combines an enormous house with indoor and out of doors venues, plus a swanky new cocktail space known as the Inexperienced Room, which provides unfettered views of the town beneath. Castaway can also be one of many area’s hottest wedding ceremony and occasion areas, which provides to its estimated income. Boa Steakhouse, a bustling meat specialist in West Hollywood that additionally operates in Santa Monica and Manhattan Seashore, comes subsequent at quantity 40 with $17.7 million in gross sales. A supply aware of Boa Steakhouse confirmed that Restaurant Enterprise’s estimate was inside vary of its precise gross income.
Nevertheless, Mélisse chef Josiah Citrin had a distinct response to his fantastic eating restaurant’s placement at 100 on the listing with an estimated $11.05 million in income. Restaurant Enterprise estimates its verify common to be $425 per particular person with about 26,000 annual company, which appears extremely unlikely provided that the eating room consists of solely 14 seats. The upper determine is perhaps conflating the a lot bigger eating space of Citrin, which shares an area with the smaller tasting menu-focused Mélisse, although Citrin has a a lot decrease per-person verify common. “We lastly made a Prime 100 listing, and it’s not even true. No concept the place they bought that from. I want it have been the case. We’re removed from that,” mentioned Citrin in response.
Downtown LA pastry emporium and all-day Italian spot Bottega Louie will get the 58 spot at $15.7 million in income, Malibu’s Paradise Cove Seashore cafe sits at 71 with $13.9 million, and Gladstone’s in Pacific Palisades is available in at quantity 90 with $11.7 million. Additionally of curiosity, Coalinga’s Harris Ranch Inn & Restaurant, positioned about halfway between Los Angeles and San Francisco alongside the 5 freeway, earned $18.8 million and landed at 33 on the listing.
