Japanese / Fine Dining · Old Town Scottsdale · James Beard Award (Tyson Cole) | Eater Phoenix Best New Fall 2025
Austin-based chef-owner Tyson Cole's seventh rendition of Uchi ('home' in Japanese) — crudo, carpaccio, wagyu beef hot rock, rare fish from Toyosu Market, and a 10-course seasonal omakase. The buzzies...
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Hai Noon
Japanese / Cocktail Bar · Scottsdale · James Beard Award (Chef Nobuo Fukuda) | Eater Phoenix 38
James Beard winner Nobuo Fukuda's return is the kind of restaurant news that resets a city — a low-lit bar-and-omakase room on McDowell where Japanese technique meets cocktail-program ambition. Panko-...
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Shinbay
Japanese / Omakase · Old Town Scottsdale
Scottsdale's most serious omakase — eight-seat counter, chef-driven pacing, fish flown from Toyosu, and a sake list built with the same specificity as the nigiri. The argument for Scottsdale as a Japa...
Chef Jason Alford cooks everything over flame — a handmade wood-fired oven and a Japanese robata grill, with plates pulling from Mediterranean, Japanese, and South American traditions. East Phoenix's ...
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Nobu Scottsdale
Japanese / Peruvian · Old Town Scottsdale
Nobu Matsuhisa's Scottsdale outpost at Fashion Square — the same Japanese-Peruvian signature menu that launched a global empire, now serving the Valley. Black cod miso, yellowtail jalapeño, rock shrim...
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Hana Japanese Eatery
Japanese · Melrose · Eater Phoenix 38
Lori Hashimoto's family-style Japanese spot in Melrose covers a wide spread — sushi, cooked dishes, the works. The kind of neighborhood place where regulars trust the kitchen to handle everything on t...
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Minnow
Japanese / All-Day Cafe · Arcadia · Eater Phoenix Best New Fall 2025
Bernie Kantak took over a glassy, ceramic-tiled space in Arcadia and built an all-day Japanese cafe around it. The menu runs from morning coffee through evening. Different bet than his other Phoenix r...
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Hiro Sushi
Japanese / Sushi · Scottsdale
A tucked-into-a-strip-mall sushi counter running since 1994 — the quiet benchmark the Valley's serious sushi obsessives point to instead of the higher-volume Old Town rooms. Omakase with the chef, edo...
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Squid Ink Sushi
Japanese / Sushi · North Scottsdale
A North Scottsdale sushi counter since 2015 — a creative-roll program that has quietly earned the Valley's most-ranked sushi lists, omakase seats at the bar, and a strip-mall setting that is the relia...
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Obon Sushi + Bar + Ramen
Japanese / Sushi / Ramen · Old Town Scottsdale
Old Town sushi-and-ramen hybrid — a tonkotsu ramen that has a serious following, a proper sushi bar for the end-of-bar omakase seat, and a cocktail/sake program that keeps the room moving on a 5th Ave...
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Kauboi at The REMI
Japanese Steakhouse / Whiskey Bar · Old Town Scottsdale