The Top 81 Restaurants in Scottsdale
The best restaurants in Scottsdale, by the professional record: The Pinnacle Guide, USA Today, and Foodist Awards have all weighed in, and their honors are what rank this list. Course comes out on top.
FnB and The Stand hold the next two places. Foodist Awards and Phoenix New Times show up on more of this list than any other guide.
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A strip-mall address in Scottsdale is doing its best to throw you off, but step inside Course and it's a full tasting-menu restaurant, white-tablecloth intentions and all. The kitchen runs a rotating seasonal menu, five courses on weeknights and eight on weekends, with a James Beard semifinalist nomination for the chef and another for pastry. The Pinnacle Guide awarded it one Pin for 2026.
- The Pinnacle Guide 1 Pin
- USA Today Restaurants of the Year
- Foodist Awards 2024 · Winner · Top Chef · Cory Oppold
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Rank 2. FnB
Sonoran New American
The chef still works the line most nights, which tells you something about a creative restaurant that's been an Old Town Scottsdale fixture long enough to feel inevitable. Vegetables are taken seriously here, pulled from Arizona farms and steered through a menu that drifts from the Sonoran Desert to the Levant without announcing itself. The wine list leans hard into Arizona producers, and the tucked-away bar is a fine place to work through both.
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Rank 3. The Stand
American
- USA Today Restaurants of the Year
- AZ Central The 100 Best Metro Phoenix Restaurants
- Phoenix New Times 2025 · Best Milkshakes · Best of Phoenix
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Rank 4. Andreoli Italian Grocer
Italian
The shelves of imported flour, olive oil, and canned goods are the first thing you navigate on the way to ordering lunch, which about sums up what Andreoli is: a north Scottsdale Italian grocer where the sit-down dining room is just as serious as the pantry. The chef hails from Calabria but ranges freely across the regions, and the whiteboard specials tend toward the kind of dishes that take some explaining. A James Beard nominee.
- James Beard Awards 2022 · Nominee · Best Chef: Southwest · Giovanni Scorzo
- Phoenix New Times The top 50 restaurants in Phoenix right now
- AZ Central The 100 Best Metro Phoenix Restaurants
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- Foodist Awards 2025 · Finalist · Phenomenal Fast Casual Concept
- Foodist Awards 2024 · Finalist: Thai Peanut Poke Bowl · Standout Signature Dish
- Phoenix New Times The 12 best restaurants in Scottsdale
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- Foodist Awards 2024 · Finalist: Thai Peanut Poke Bowl · Standout Signature Dish
- Foodist Awards 2025 · Finalist · Phenomenal Fast Casual Concept
- Phoenix New Times The 12 best restaurants in Scottsdale
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- Foodist Awards 2025 · Finalist: In-Good Spirits · Outstanding Hospitality Group
- Phoenix New Times 2025 · Best Salad: The Original Chopped Salad · Best of Phoenix
- Phoenix Magazine Lucky 7 Cereal Bowl · Top 100 Dishes of Arizona
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Rank 7. Citizen Public House
American
The Original Chopped Salad has its own Facebook page, which tells you something about the regulars here. Citizen Public House is a polished American restaurant in Old Town Scottsdale that manages to feel genuinely comfortable despite looking like it shouldn't. Classic dishes get quiet, confident upgrades, the room runs warm without trying too hard, and the kitchen keeps the kind of hours that make it useful for more than just dinner plans.
- Foodist Awards 2025 · Finalist: In-Good Spirits · Outstanding Hospitality Group
- Phoenix New Times 2025 · Best Salad: The Original Chopped Salad · Best of Phoenix
- Phoenix New Times The 12 best restaurants in Scottsdale
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Rank 7. Hush Public House
American
The oxtail Italian beef sandwich, melting with cheese and spiked with giardiniera, tells you right away what kind of chef is running this upscale New American kitchen. Hush is an intimate room in a Scottsdale strip mall, open kitchen sending smells out front, nostalgic rock at a volume that invites conversation. The menu shifts often, but the kitchen's touch with vegetables, fish, and meat stays constant. Reservations through Tock are a smart move.
- Foodist Awards 2024 · Winner: Cast Iron Concepts · Outstanding Hospitality Group
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- Phoenix New Times The top 50 restaurants in Phoenix right now
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- Foodist Awards 2025 · Winner: Double Burger · Most Crave-Worthy Burger
- Phoenix New Times The top 10 burger joints in Phoenix
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- Foodist Awards 2024 · Winner: Hush Burger · Standout Signature Dish
- Foodist Awards 2025 · Finalist: Hush Burger · Most Crave-Worthy Burger
- Foodist Awards 2024 · Winner: Cast Iron Concepts · Outstanding Hospitality Group
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- AZ Central The 100 Best Metro Phoenix Restaurants
- Phoenix New Times The top 10 burger joints in Phoenix
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- Foodist Awards 2025 · Winner: Genuine Concepts · Outstanding Hospitality Group
- Foodist Awards 2024 · Finalist: Genuine Concepts · Outstanding Hospitality Group
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- Foodist Awards 2025 · Winner: Genuine Concepts · Outstanding Hospitality Group
- Foodist Awards 2024 · Finalist: Genuine Concepts · Outstanding Hospitality Group
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Rank 16. The Mission
Mexican
Old Town Scottsdale runs heavy on sushi and gourmet burgers, so a candlelit Mexican restaurant with a serious tequila program reads almost as contraband. The Mission leans modern Latin rather than strictly regional, but the street tacos and bacon-wrapped hot dogs hold their own against the fancier plates. The room is dark and unhurried in a way that makes a second round of $15 cocktails feel inevitable.
- Foodist Awards 2024 · Food Pioneer · Matt Carter
- Phoenix New Times 2023 · Best Tequila Selection · Best of Phoenix
- The Infatuation The Best Restaurants In Scottsdale
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A globe-hopping dinner spot in Old Town Scottsdale built as a love letter to Anthony Bourdain, which means handmade pasta shares the menu with egg yolk nigiri and bison ribeye without any of it feeling like a theme park. The warm, conversation-friendly room earns its vibe. The bar team applies something closer to lab technique to the cocktails, and the mocktail program picked up a Phoenix Magazine Best of the Valley nod, which is a sentence Bourdain would have found deeply funny.
- Phoenix New Times The top 50 restaurants in Phoenix right now
- Phoenix Magazine 2025 · Best Mocktail: Smartest Cocktail in the Room · Best of the Valley
- Phoenix New Times The 12 best restaurants in Scottsdale
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Rank 23. Persian Room
Persian
- AZ Central The 100 Best Metro Phoenix Restaurants
- Phoenix Magazine Kash O'Bademjan · Top 100 Dishes of Arizona
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Rank 24. Élephante
Mediterranean
- Phoenix New Times 2025 · Best Espresso Martini · Best of Phoenix
- Phoenix Magazine 2025 · Best New Pizza Hot Spot · Best of the Valley
- The Infatuation The Best Restaurants In Scottsdale
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Rank 24. Hai Noon
Japanese
- Eater Sashimi Spoons · The Most Iconic Dishes in Phoenix
- Phoenix Magazine Sashimi Spoons · Top 100 Dishes of Arizona
- Eater The 38 Best Restaurants in Phoenix
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Rank 24. Zinc Bistro
French
- Foodist Awards 2024 · Food Pioneer · Matt Carter
- Phoenix Magazine Dungeness Crab Salad · Top 100 Dishes of Arizona
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- Foodist Awards 2024 · Finalist · Top Chef · Alex Trujillo
- Phoenix Magazine Carpaccio · Top 100 Dishes of Arizona
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A private cottage across the street from its louder sibling, Reserve runs on dress codes, flickering candles, and soft piano, which tells you exactly what kind of evening this is. The tasting menu leans into caviar, dry-aged duck, and wagyu, while an enormous wine cellar offers options at most price points. The service team controls the pace deliberately, so no one is rushing you anywhere. Note that it operates seasonally.
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- Phoenix Magazine Date Shake · Top 100 Dishes of Arizona
- Eater Date Shake · The Most Iconic Dishes in Phoenix
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Rank 32. La Zozzona
Italian
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At Sizzle, the servers run the grill, so you can just sit there looking relaxed and cosmopolitan while someone else does the work. This Korean barbecue spot builds its menu around pork or beef sampler platters, with different cuts arriving in waves alongside banchan, salad, and steamed egg. Soju cocktails filled with fresh fruit handle the drinks side. Phoenix New Times named it the top Korean barbecue in the area.
- Phoenix New Times The top 50 restaurants in Phoenix right now
- Phoenix New Times 2024 · Best Korean Barbecue · Best of Phoenix
- Phoenix New Times 2025 · Best Korean Barbecue · Best of Phoenix
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- Phoenix New Times 2025 · Best Upscale Indian Food · Best of Phoenix
- Phoenix New Times The 10 best Indian restaurants in Phoenix
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- Phoenix New Times 2024 · Best Vegan Restaurant · Best of Phoenix
- Phoenix New Times 2025 · Best Vegan Burger · Best of Phoenix
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- Foodist Awards 2025 · Winner · Outstanding Bar/Nightlife Experience
- Phoenix New Times The Top 100 Bars in Phoenix
- The Infatuation The Best Restaurants In Scottsdale
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Rank 41. Cala
Mediterranean
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Rank 41. Di Maggio’s
NY Italian
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Rank 41. Francine
Mediterranean French
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The whole room is built around the idea of Anthony Bourdain, which sounds like a gimmick until you see how it plays out. Warm lighting, close tables, and a menu that wanders from handmade pasta to egg yolk nigiri to a Japanese Wagyu sando without apologizing for any of it. The drinks menu leans into clarified and precisely mixed cocktails. A global restaurant in Old Town Scottsdale that earns its ambition more often than not.
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Rank 58. Elvira’s
Innovative Mexican
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A 17,600-square-foot pool area anchors this sprawling dayclub and nightclub on Scottsdale's main party corridor, where the outdoor scene runs on cabanas, three bars, and a taco stand beneath what's reportedly the Valley's largest LED video wall. When the sun goes down, the indoor club takes over with a vortex-shaped dance floor and the kind of bottle service that keeps the staff very busy. The crowd skews young, attractive, and aware of both facts.
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Rank 58. Pescada
Coastal Mediterranean
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Rank 58. Tapas Papa Frita
Spanish
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Rank 76. Diego Pops
Mexican
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Rank 76. Franco's Italian Caffe
Old-School Italian
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Rank 76. Marcellino Ristorante
Classic Italian
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Rank 79. Call Her Martina
Modern Mexican
A black-and-white dining room tucked into the Scottsdale Waterfront strip mall, where the guacamole arrives studded with pomegranate seeds and warm steak cubes, which sounds like a gimmick until it doesn't. This modern Mexican restaurant runs from quesabirria tacos to charred octopus, and the cocktails come dressed with flower petals and charred cinnamon sticks, because subtlety is apparently optional. The flan, cracked with caramel shards, lands the ending.
- Phoenix New Times 2024 · Best Guacamole · Best of Phoenix
- Phoenix New Times 2023 · Best Guacamole · Best of Phoenix
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Rank 79. Goldman's Deli
Jewish American
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