Chef Matt Carter's second-act Italian next to his flagship — Sicilian technique meets Scottsdale mesquite. Handmade pasta, mesquite-grilled whole fish, prime steaks for the table everyone thinks is ce...
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Ocean 44
Seafood / Steakhouse · Old Town Scottsdale
The Mastro's family's seafood-forward restaurant on the Scottsdale Waterfront — luxury fish program, extensive wine cellar, piano bar, the full fine-dining-steakhouse-but-seafood package. Chilean sea ...
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Chula Seafood
Seafood · Uptown · Eater Phoenix 38
The Heflin family runs a sustainable San Diego fishing operation that became one of the best seafood counters in Phoenix — Uptown fishmonger up front, kitchen out back. Fish burrito with fries and gua...
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Nelson's Meat + Fish
Seafood / Fishmonger · Arcadia · Eater Phoenix 38
Chris Nelson runs what most chefs in town will quietly tell you is the best fish counter in Phoenix — an Arcadia retail case sourcing from around the world, plus a tight rotation of ready-made plates....
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Mariscos Playa Hermosa
Mexican Seafood · Garfield · Eater Phoenix 38
Two decades in, the Maldonado family's Garfield cantina is still the room you go to when you want Mexican seafood served loud — octopus tacos, aguachiles, lobster enchiladas, and michelada-class drink...
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Marisco Boys
Mexican Seafood · Central Phoenix · Eater Phoenix Best New Fall 2025
Mariscos follow-up from the Taco Boys team, drawing from Puerto Penasco and the Gulf of California in a Hermosillo-glam dining room in Central Phoenix. The charola seafood tower makes a statement, and...
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Buck & Rider
Seafood / Steakhouse · Arcadia
Buck and Rider is a seafood-forward Arcadia restaurant that also sends out serious steakhouse cuts, including a 32-ounce bone-in ribeye. A dual-threat kitchen that doesn't phone in either side of the ...
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Mastro's Ocean Club
Seafood / Fine Dining · North Scottsdale
Mastro's Scottsdale-at-Pinnacle-Peak seafood sister to the Camelback Road steakhouse — a larger seafood tower, same piano-bar DNA, and a North-Scottsdale Pinnacle-Peak-view patio that delivers the Mas...
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Eddie V's Prime Seafood Scottsdale
Seafood / Steakhouse · North Scottsdale
The upscale seafood-and-steakhouse chain that anchors North Scottsdale's fine-dining set. Live jazz in the V Lounge every night, dry-aged steaks, and a Chilean sea bass that regulars put on top of the...
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C-Fu Gourmet
Chinese / Seafood / Dim Sum · Chandler
A Chandler Chinese seafood-and-dim-sum house — live-tank seafood pulled fresh-killed to the wok, cart dim sum on weekends, and a Cantonese menu the East Valley's Asian-food obsessives have ranked abov...