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Top 25 Chef owned restaurants worldwide
RevenueBase identified 828 chef owned restaurants worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 8,783 professional contacts across them, including 746 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and Paris the largest hub.
This list covers chef owned restaurants worldwide, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 19, 2026. Country and city lists for chef owned restaurants follow the table.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest chef owned restaurants worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 273 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Tender Greens is a group of restaurants where super talented chefs get to run each kitchen like their own-and that’s why we call it a chef’s kitchen.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 232 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Fabio Trabocchi is an internationally acclaimed chef and restaurateur based in Washington, D.C.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 188 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Since opening Alinea, we’ve built and operated Next, The Aviary, and Roister, wrote and produced two award-winning books, developed and implemented dynamically priced booking…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 174 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “En 2008, Yannick Alléno fonde le Groupe du même nom afin de fédérer autour de sa vision une équipe de talents, cheffes et chefs, femmes et hommes de salle.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 170 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Quality Branded is a Midtown-based restaurant group in New York City, founded by Michael Stillman in 2006.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 151 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Led by Chef Daniel Humm, Eleven Madison Park is the flagship restaurant of Daniel Humm Hospitality.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 132 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Altamarea Group (AMG) is a globally renowned hospitality company led by founder and CEO, Ahmass Fakahany.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 125 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Spirited, Rugged, and Romantic.Redstone is for people who know how to celebrate great food.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 119 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Our restaurants are driven by a deep dedication to the art of craft.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 89 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A graduate of the Culinary Institute of America and a student at Ecole Lenotre Pastry School in Plaisir, France.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 88 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We currently hold 15 Michelin Stars in our restaurant group.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 83 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Ron Blaauw, chef and restauranteur, has more than thirty years of experience in the world of hospitality.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 76 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “El 6 de mayo de 2009 se abre la taberna Arzábal en el número 2 de la calle doctor Castelo en el madrileño barrio de Retiro.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 71 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “O Grupo Irajá tem à frente o chef / restaurateur Pedro de Artagão e reúne sete restaurantes (Irajá, Formidable Bistrot, Cozinha Artagão, Azur, Irajá Redux, Boteco Rainha e Galeto…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 70 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Bastion Collection is a modern haven of community, creativity & quality.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 69 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “MJMK Restaurants own and operate 7 London-based restaurants.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 69 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Crafted Hospitality was founded by Chef Tom Colicchio with the opening of Craft restaurant in New York in 2001.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 66 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Created in partnership with hospitality icon Nick Di Donato of the Liberty Entertainment Group, Don Alfonso 1890 Toronto is the first North American location of world renowned…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 47 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Le chef Greg Marchand a commencé son voyage culinaire dans l’ouest de la France à l’âge de 15 ans.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 46 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “FAR Out Hospitality was founded by restaurateur and chef, Felipe Armenta.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 46 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Simon Rogan Restaurant Group owns, partners and manages restaurants across the United Kingdom, Malta, Thailand and Hong Kong.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 46 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Todd English is a renowned chef, restaurateur, author, entrepreneur, and television star based in Boston, Massachusetts and New York City.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 42 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Poetic Culinaria An expression of taste, scent and vision.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 40 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Under the culinary leadership of renowned Executive Chef Lorenzo Loseto, GEORGE has become a top-rated and best restaurant for the city of Toronto’s fine dining.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 40 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Il ristorante Piazza Duomo di Alba è il regno creativo di Enrico Crippa, nato dalla liaison con la famiglia Ceretto.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: chef owned restaurants. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names chef owned restaurants.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of chef owned restaurants, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name chef owned restaurants. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Chef owned restaurants worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency is reported on each country list linked below.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among chef owned restaurants, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- Coverage
- Every country. Country and city lists for chef owned restaurants are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “chef owned restaurants”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names chef owned restaurants), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among chef owned restaurants, and records with no verified work email.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 746 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 19, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Chef owned restaurants by location
3 lists · largest firstEvery Chef owned restaurants list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
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Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names chef owned restaurants, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many chef owned restaurants are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 828 chef owned restaurants worldwide as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Tender Greens, headquartered in Los Angeles, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most chef owned restaurants?
The United States leads with 171 companies, followed by the United Kingdom (63) and the Netherlands (56). Every chef owned restaurants list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most chef owned restaurants?
Paris leads with 34 headquartered companies, followed by London (20) and New York (16).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 746 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 828 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 19, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.