The single most common question about Scottsdale steakhouses isn’t which one is best. It’s whose they are. Six of the city’s big-ticket steak and seafood rooms trace back to one family, the Mastros, and only some of them still belong to it. Here is the short answer, then the long one, then how to pick.
The short answer, as of October 2026
- Mastro’s Steakhouse, Mastro’s City Hall and Mastro’s Ocean Club are owned by Landry’s, Tilman Fertitta’s Houston company, which bought the Mastro’s chain in May 2013. The Mastro family sold it in 2007 and has no stake in it.
- Dominick’s Steakhouse, Ocean 44, Steak 44 and Durant’s are owned by Prime Steak Concepts, the family’s company: brothers Jeff and Mike Mastro, their father Dennis Mastro, and longtime partner Scott Troilo. The same company runs Steak 48 and Ocean 48 in other states.
So: the restaurants with the Mastro name aren’t the Mastros’, and the ones without it are.
How it got this way
Dennis and Jane Mastro moved their four children from New Jersey to Scottsdale and opened a steakhouse called What’s Your Beef in the 1980s. In 1991 Dennis, his son Mike and family friend Scott Troilo opened Maloney’s, a pub that grew to nine Valley locations. In 1999 Dennis opened Mastro’s Steakhouse at Pinnacle Peak and Pima roads, and the family built it into a seven-restaurant group, including the seafood-heavy Mastro’s Ocean Club.
In 2007 they sold the group to private equity firms Kinderhook Industries and Soros Strategic Partners, for a reported $150 million, and signed a noncompete. When it lapsed, the brothers came back with their father and Troilo as Prime Steak Concepts and opened Dominick’s at Scottsdale Quarter in 2011. Mastro’s owners sued, calling Dominick’s a copycat; the case was dismissed in 2013, the same year Landry’s bought Mastro’s. Steak 44 followed in Phoenix in 2014, then Steak 48 in Houston and Chicago (the 48 is Arizona’s place in the order of statehood), and Ocean 44 beside Fashion Square in December 2018. In 2025 the family bought Durant’s, the 1950 Phoenix steakhouse, and reopened it on December 17 after a ten-month renovation.
The six rooms, one by one
Mastro’s Steakhouse, the original (Landry’s). 8852 E Pinnacle Peak Rd, in the Pinnacle Peak and Troon country of north Scottsdale. The 1999 room that started it: sizzling plates, a piano lounge, the warm butter cake. The one to visit if you want the history; the long drive from Old Town is the price of admission.
Mastro’s City Hall (Landry’s). 6991 E Camelback Rd in Old Town. The same formula with a busier bar and a later crowd, and the Mastro’s you can walk to from most Old Town hotels.
Mastro’s Ocean Club (Landry’s). 15045 N Kierland Blvd at Kierland Commons. Seafood towers first, steak second, butter cake always.
Dominick’s Steakhouse (Prime Steak Concepts). 15169 N Scottsdale Rd at Scottsdale Quarter. The family’s 2011 comeback, a traditional steakhouse with the strangest amenity in town, a rooftop pool you can dine beside. Ask for the roof when you book.
Ocean 44 (Prime Steak Concepts). 4748 N Goldwater Blvd, on the old Harkins Camelview site across from Scottsdale Fashion Square. The seafood version of Steak 44, though it serves steaks too: a wood-burning oven, an 18-foot shellfish display and the most dressed-up dining room on Goldwater.
Steak 44 (Prime Steak Concepts). 5101 N 44th St, Phoenix, at 44th Street and Camelback, ten minutes west of Old Town. The family’s flagship steakhouse, and the reason both “44”s are called that.
Durant’s (Prime Steak Concepts since 2025). 2611 N Central Ave, Phoenix. Not a Mastro concept at all, but a 1950 institution you enter through the kitchen, now in the family’s hands and freshly restored.
Which one, which night
- First time in Scottsdale, want the legend: the original Mastro’s near Pinnacle Peak. Order a bone-in steak and the butter cake and you’ve had the meal the whole genre copies.
- Walking from an Old Town hotel: Mastro’s City Hall for steak, Ocean 44 for fish. Our trolley guide covers getting between them without a car.
- Seafood tower for a table of six: Ocean 44 if you want the room, Mastro’s Ocean Club if you’re already at Kierland.
- Warm evening, want the outdoors: Dominick’s, for the rooftop. Confirm the roof when you book, because that’s the whole point.
- Old Phoenix, not new Scottsdale: Durant’s.
- A client dinner where the room has to behave: Steak 44.
All six are expensive and all six book up on high-season weekends two weeks out. Dress is resort-evening at every one of them, which in Scottsdale means nobody will stop you in nice jeans and half the room will be in a jacket.
What’s next
In 2025 Prime Steak Concepts bought the former Chart House on Camelback Lake at 7255 E McCormick Parkway, which closed after four decades, and announced a new restaurant built from the ground up, targeted for fall 2026. Jeff and Mike Mastro grew up a few blocks away in McCormick Ranch. As of mid-October 2026 we couldn’t confirm a name or opening date; we’ll add it when there is one.
For the full Scottsdale steak picture, including the resort rooms and the lost cowboy steakhouses, read our steakhouse field guide. For the other restaurant family that runs half the city’s dinner reservations, see every Fox Restaurant Concepts restaurant.