restaurants guides, can I beat them?

Hi guys. My cusiosity is: I have to remake a site for a restaurant and rank it in the first positions. Being a local activity, it shouldn't be difficult by ranking it on google places, because almost all of the keywords trigger that kind of results, where the first 3 organic results before the google places results are tripadvisor, and same for the organic results below it.
I'm planning on ranking the site on google places first, simply because there's not a lot of work, but I'm wondering. There are a lot of pages of groupon, tripadvisor and some other culinary guides, and even for long tail keywords the serp is always full of their pages. Can they be outranked for some specific keywords, with fully optimized pages, so my site can show up in the organic results at least under the google places listings, or it's a waste of time?

You can rank them in the top 3 if not at the top or in top 2 slots.

If your site is registered with one of those just-eat | yell | yp type sites, then too your site's name can be shown on the top but under that site's url. If you also have a separate dedicated site, then it will probably be shown below that result.

My 2 cents!

example: Google:

P.S.:
The above example is possible routinely, but imo you can beat those sites also through top-quality SEO.

Ok, got it, thanks!