The Capital Grille
1000 Darden Center Dr, Orlando, FL 32837-4032
Ownership Hierarchy
Approximately 90-95% of the The Capital Grille restaurant locations are linked in the Atlas Research Platform.
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The Capital Grille is headquartered at 1000 Darden Center Dr in Orlando, Florida and is an upscale steakhouse brand. The business dates to 1990. The brand operates as a fine dining restaurant and steakhouse with African mahogany paneling and Art Deco chandeliers. Steaks are dry aged on the premises and hand carved by in-house butchers. Dining rooms are designed to create an atmosphere of refined sophistication, and some locations display notable historic architecture. Its parent company is Darden Restaurants. Only a small share of the system is franchised. Restaurants are upscale and serve lunch and dinner with steaks and seafood. A typical restaurant offers roughly 250 seats in about 7,000 square feet. The company's restaurants are located in major cities across the United States.
The Capital Grille Growth History
The Capital Grille Vector Profile
RestaurantData’s selected archived development trail for The Capital Grille begins with a January 2000 report in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The reports document a long multi-state history, with supporting opening-year research adding to later records and extending the selected view through 2026.
For sales teams and investors, these historical windows help compare current development with earlier activity and place individual locations within the brand’s longer expansion history.
Four selected historical windows
- 2000–2005
Early multi-state trail
10+ opening signals10+ states with signals
- 2006–2011
Continued development reports
5–9 opening signals5+ states with signals
- 2012–2019
Later archived activity
10+ opening signals10+ states with signals
- 2021–2026
Broader recent research
20+ opening signals15+ states with signals
The Capital Grille: development arc
Selected location history and opening signals, 2000–2026.
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Vector readout: The 2000–2005 house-report trail contains 10+ selected signals across 10+ states, plus the District of Columbia. The 2012–2019 window adds 10+ across 10+ states. The 2021–2026 combined history contains 20+ selected signals across 15+ states under broader research coverage.
The 2021–2026 window has a broader source mix than the earlier house-report windows. The 2026 segment is partial. Development report years may precede the opening year recorded for a restaurant.
RestaurantData source trail: Archived RestaurantData house reports provide the development-report trail. Supporting restaurant-location research contributes researched opening-year attributes to the dotted segment. A development report year and an opening year can differ for the same location.
Restaurant location examples along the expansion arc
- 2002Development report year
The Capital Grille
2502 E Camelback Rd
Phoenix, AZ 85016
Maricopa County - 2008Development report year
The Capital Grille
5340 N River Rd
Rosemont, IL 60018
Cook County - 2014Development report year
The Capital Grille
117 W 4th St
Austin, TX 78701
Travis County - 2024Researched opening year
The Capital Grille
2807 S Eagle Rd
Newtown, PA 18940
Bucks County - 2025Researched opening year
The Capital Grille
2380 Kuhio Ave
Honolulu, HI 96815
Honolulu County - 2026Researched opening year
The Capital Grille
9067 Westview Rd
Lone Tree, CO 80124
Douglas County
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Source: RestaurantData archived U.S. development reports and supporting restaurant-location research. Headquarters, franchisee offices, unrelated namesakes, renovations, transfers and unresolved addresses are excluded. Signal counts of 10 or more are rounded down to tens; counts from 5 to 9 use that range. State bands of 5 or more are rounded down to multiples of 5. Smaller counts are shown directly. The District of Columbia is identified separately.
The latest included dated evidence is 2026. The 2026 segment is partial. Development reports may describe planned restaurants. The six examples use the date basis shown on each card. A report year is not necessarily an opening year, and location verification dates are not used as opening dates. Historical locations may have closed.
The earlier solid segment uses report dates. Opening-year records enter the later dotted segment under the stated source periods. Markers identify years with selected dated evidence; connecting lines are illustrative between those years. Coverage varies across jurisdictions and years. These selections do not represent complete opening totals, current operating units or net growth. Gaps alone do not establish a pause or contraction.
Last updated November 2026.
The six displayed restaurant examples were cross-checked against Google Maps on November 3, 2026 and showed operating listings. Their year labels identify historical research periods or researched opening years, separate from this status check.
Read the Restaurant Vector™ overview for the research method and source definitions.
Historical reference: The Capital Grille in the 2018 Top 300 Restaurant Concepts report on RestaurantChains.net.
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