What is Catch Scottsdale?
Catch Scottsdale is what happened when the luxury wing of Scottsdale Fashion Square went looking for a restaurant to match its tenants. It opened on Friday, September 19, 2025, at 7014 E Camelback Road, Suite 612, on the mall’s south-side porte-cochère facing Camelback Road, with its own valet and street entrance next to Cartier, Louis Vuitton, Rolex and Bottega Veneta. It is the seventh Catch, after New York, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Aspen, Miami Beach and Dallas, and the brand’s first in Arizona, in the Downtown and 5th Avenue blocks north of Old Town.
The company is Catch Hospitality Group, whose partners are Tilman Fertitta, the Houston billionaire behind Landry’s, and Mark Birnbaum and Eugene Remm, the nightlife operators who opened the first Catch in the Meatpacking District in 2011. They announced Scottsdale in August 2023 with a first-quarter 2025 target that slipped by two seasons. “Scottsdale is a natural next step for us as we continue to evolve the brand in exciting destinations,” Birnbaum said when the date was set.
Rockwell Group, which designed Catch Miami Beach and Catch Steak LA, did the room: about 11,700 square feet of dining room, bar, sushi bar and private space, including the jewel-toned Emerald Room with green leather banquettes and floral wallcoverings. The palette is described as desert modernism with a West Coast accent, limestone, terracotta, wood and oil-rubbed bronze with the brand’s green. A doorman opens tall frosted-glass doors.
The food is the brand’s seafood, sushi and steak with the fish flown from Tokyo’s Toyosu Market: the Catch Roll, Truffle Sashimi, Spicy Gigli, Cantonese lobster and Japanese Wagyu cooked tableside on a hot rock, plus seasonal sushi the company says is inspired by Arizona. Phoenix New Times, which has reviewed every flashy Scottsdale opening of the decade with a raised eyebrow, decided this one was different: “Catch is worth the price tag, and it earns every bit of its hype.” Our verdict: it is the best of the Fashion Square imports and the only one where the food outruns the scene.
How to eat at Catch
Sit in the bar. This is the most useful thing New Times’ review established. The open-plan dining room, gold-lit under a wood-lined ceiling, is loud with big round tables; the bar, through two archways, is darker, quieter and lined with four-seat high-tops along the back wall. The critic ended up there because it was the only Thursday reservation left and called it perfect for two. Ask for a high-top, not a stool.
Work the menu from cold to hot. It is laid out in sections that grow in size and temperature. Start in the “From Japan to Scottsdale” raw section with the Madai Crudo, tight rolls of Japanese red snapper with pickled green peach, pomegranate and a sharp amarillo sauce, eaten as one composed spoonful. The Truffle Sashimi ($37), tuna and hamachi with chile ponzu, black truffle and caviar, is the brand’s calling card. Move to rolls: the Catch Roll ($25) is crab, salmon and miso honey, the Hellfire is spicy tuna two ways with pear, and the Wagyu Surf & Turf ($37) is Maine lobster under a torched slice of Wagyu with truffle aioli, the dish the review called an experience.
Then order the branzino. The herb-roasted branzino over creamy, lemony vegetable basmati was, in the review’s words, “hands down, one of the best dishes we’ve tried this year.” The Miso Glazed Sea Bass is $59, Roasted Maine Lobster Frites $55 or $110, and the Angry Lobster Mafaldine $42. Steaks go from an 8-ounce filet at $69 and a 14-ounce prime ribeye at $89 to A5 Wagyu on the hot rock at $68 an ounce; the Wagyu Fried Rice is $64. The Spicy Gigli is a good vodka pasta and the one dish the critic found generic. Dessert is the “Hit Me” chocolate cake ($23) and warm ricotta donuts ($18).
Drinks and brunch. Cocktails run $17 to $22: the Filthy Martini ($20), the clarified piña colada made with whey, a Mango Mezcalita the review found too close to Sunny-D. Weekend brunch, Saturday and Sunday 10:30 to 2, is a $75 set price with a bakery station, raw bar towers and sushi, plus an $80 ossetra caviar add-on. The Emerald Lounge inside the restaurant runs late Thursday through Saturday with a $100 A5 Wagyu sando.
Logistics. Dinner is Monday through Thursday 4:30 to 9, Friday and Saturday 4 to 10, Sunday 4 to 9. Book on OpenTable or the Catch site; the house says to call if nothing shows. Valet is on the Camelback porte-cochère. Under-21s are refused after 8 p.m., as are hats and athletic wear. The phone is (480) 919-0084.
The L.A. invasion of Fashion Square, and why this one stuck
Fashion Square has been importing restaurants from the coasts for a decade, and the record is mixed. The first wave landed on the reconceived north side in time for the pandemic: Nobu in 2016, then Zinqué, the Los Angeles cafe that taught the mall to lounge and closed in 2026. Ocean 44, the local seafood heavyweight, held the Goldwater side. When Macerich renovated the south wing around Cartier and Louis Vuitton, it went back to the same playbook with a bigger budget: Catch and the Santa Monica import Élephante on the porte-cochère in 2025, Sam Fox’s Society Swan on October 15, 2025, Telefèric Barcelona, and Din Tai Fung in 2026. Phoenix Magazine called it an “invasion of L.A. restaurants” and quoted the state restaurant association on why: building and labor costs in California are “out of control.”
Catch’s delay tells its own story. Announced in August 2023 for early 2025, it opened in September 2025, more than two years later, which is roughly how long a Rockwell Group build-out of nearly 12,000 square feet takes when the landlord is remodeling around you. The brand had been through this before; the group’s 2023 release listed Miami Beach and Dallas as recent openings and two more under construction. Scottsdale fit the pattern of destination cities with a luxury-retail anchor and a year-round visitor base.
What is different here is the reception. New Times’ food editor went in expecting the usual Scottsdale trade, “businessmen shaking hands” and Louis Vuitton bags at the table, and found all of that plus food she wanted to go back for. The paper named Catch a Best New Restaurant of 2025 and put it on its Top 50, and its guide to eating at the mall calls it “splashy and spendy” but backed by substance. The Emerald Lounge, added in March 2026, moved the restaurant into late-night territory the mall had never had. What the record does not say is how the Scottsdale room performs against its siblings, who the local chef is, or whether the Arizona-inspired sushi amounts to more than a line in a press release; the group publishes none of it.
Honest assessment: Catch is a chain, a loud one, with a dress code, a doorman and prices that New Times compared to a car payment. It is also, on the evidence, the best-executed restaurant in the Fashion Square orbit and the first import since Nobu that a critic has praised for the plate rather than the scene. If you are choosing one expensive night at the mall in the 2020s, choose this one, sit in the bar, and order the branzino.