What is 11:11 Scottsdale?
Most of Old Town’s nightclubs share a soundtrack. On Saddlebag Trail and Stetson Drive the default is Top 40 and EDM, with country in the honky-tonks. 11:11 Scottsdale, on Drinkwater Boulevard at the southern edge of the district, plays something else: hip-hop, R&B and dancehall, with hits and house mixed in. That alone makes it one of the most distinctive rooms in Old Town nightlife.
The club occupies Suite 100 at 4280 N Drinkwater Blvd, the space that was previously INTL Nightclub, and it opens three nights a week, Thursday through Saturday from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. It is a bottle-service room. VIP sections and table reservations are booked through the website, and the biggest nights are built around celebrity and influencer hosts, who, as one Valley nightlife guide puts it, host there “on a regular basis.”
It also has a kitchen, which most clubs do not. The menu runs to wings and fries, a lamb chop dinner with mac and cheese, and Cajun shrimp with mac and cheese and candied yams: soul-food plates for a late crowd. The club offers catering and books private events, and its calendar includes theme nights such as National Taco Day, Halloween and New Year’s Eve.
Reviewers who like it describe a packed, high-energy room with an involved owner and a dress code worth respecting. Reviewers who don’t mention the crowd. Both are describing the same club.
Planning a night at 11:11
Choose the night with care. Thursday, Friday and Saturday are the only nights, and they vary. Hosted nights with a celebrity guest draw the biggest crowds and the highest table prices; an ordinary Thursday is looser. The club’s Instagram is the most current guide to who is on and when.
Book a section if you are a group. VIP sections and bottle service are the main way groups use 11:11, and reservations go through the website. General admission works for couples and small groups, but the room fills, and it is not built for people who dislike crowds.
Dress for the door. Listing guides describe the dress code as “smart and elegant,” and reviewers say it is enforced. Leave the golf shorts and the bachelorette sashes for the patio bars. The club is strictly 21 and over.
Eat there, or eat first. The kitchen is a real option: lamb chops, Cajun shrimp and wings are on the menu, which saves the walk to the late-night taco windows. For dinner beforehand, Pistoleros Parrilla is a short walk away on Civic Center Plaza.
Getting there. Drinkwater Boulevard is the northbound half of the Goldwater and Drinkwater couplet, so drivers approaching from the north will need to loop around. Rideshare is the sensible choice, and the Scottsdale Civic Center is just to the south if you need a landmark for a pickup.
A different lane in the Entertainment District
Old Town’s Entertainment District reinvents itself about once a decade, but its musical center of gravity has stayed remarkably stable. From the ultra-lounges of the 2000s through the day clubs of the 2010s and the upscale supper clubs of the 2020s, the biggest rooms on Saddlebag, Stetson and Indian Plaza have leaned on Top 40, EDM and, more recently, country.
11:11 went the other way. It took over the former INTL Nightclub space on Drinkwater and rebuilt it around hip-hop, R&B and dancehall, hosted nights with recognizable guests, and a soul-food kitchen. Valley guides to hip-hop and R&B nightlife now list it among the area’s options.
The location fits the strategy. Drinkwater Boulevard is the northbound half of the couplet the city built to move traffic around downtown without widening Scottsdale Road, and its blocks near the Civic Center are quieter than the club rows on Saddlebag and Stetson. Sitting at the edge of the grid gives the club its own door and its own crowd, without leaving the rideshare zone that makes Old Town nights work.
The honest assessment: 11:11 is a bottle-service nightclub with a dress code and a hosted-night economy, and it is priced accordingly. It is not the place for a casual drink. But for a crowd that wants hip-hop and R&B in Old Town rather than another night of the same playlist, it fills a gap the district left open for a long time.