What is STK Scottsdale?
STK is a steakhouse that would rather be a nightclub, or a nightclub that serves very good steak, depending on when you walk in. Its parent, The ONE Group, calls the format “vibe dining”: wagyu, prime New York strip and surf and turf in a lounge-style room with live DJs and a cocktail list that does as much work as the beef.
The Scottsdale version has had two addresses. STK first arrived in January 2021 at 7134 E Stetson Dr, near the Waterfront, with a rooftop terrace. That location closed in 2025. In October 2025 the brand reopened on Scottsdale Road at 3815 N Scottsdale Rd, the corner where The ONE Group’s other Scottsdale-born brand, RA Sushi, had opened in 1997 and closed that August after 28 years.
The swap was a business decision, and the company has been open about it. The ONE Group’s quarterly report called it “our first RA Sushi to STK conversion”; the remodel took about eight weeks and cost roughly $1 million to $1.5 million; and by spring 2026 the CEO was telling investors the room was running at about $7 million a year, the model for converting more of the company’s sushi and grill restaurants.
So the corner that taught Scottsdale to party over sushi now does it over steak. Next door is Uchi, a block behind it The Mission and the Old Adobe Mission on Brown Avenue, and the idea that dinner can be the night out is the same one RA bet on here in 1997.
How to eat at STK without overspending
Start at happy hour. STK runs two: 2:30 to 6:30 p.m. weekdays (2:30 to 5:30 on weekends) and 9 p.m. to close Sunday through Thursday, with a menu priced at $3, $6 and $9. It is the cheapest way to see the room, and the late one comes with the DJ already playing.
Steak Night is the value dinner. The three-course Steak Night menu is $49, well under the cost of an à la carte dinner. Otherwise, order the steak you came for, the wagyu or a prime New York strip, and let the table share sides.
Book for dinner. Weekend tables fill, and the room is built for groups, birthdays and the occasional bachelor party; our bachelor party guide explains the economics. Private events take up to 250 guests for cocktails or 184 seated.
Know what kind of steakhouse this is. If you want white tablecloths and quiet, our steakhouse guide has the classic rooms, from Mastro’s City Hall to Bourbon & Bones up the road. STK competes with the loud-dinner set instead: Maple & Ash, Toca Madera and The Guest House, which counts STK’s founding chef in its parent group.
From party sushi to vibe dining
The Scottsdale Road corner a block west of the Old Adobe Mission has been a party restaurant since October 1997, when RA Sushi’s founders turned a failed Mediterranean concept into happy-hour sushi with a bassline. That formula went national after Benihana bought RA in 2002, and when The ONE Group acquired Benihana and RA in 2024, the Scottsdale original came with it.
STK was The ONE Group’s own invention, built on the same premise RA had proved in Old Town: that people will pay restaurant prices for a night out if the restaurant feels like the night out. When the company brought STK to Scottsdale in 2021, it chose Stetson Drive, the edge of the entertainment district near the Waterfront. Four years later it closed that room and put the brand into the older, better-known RA corner instead.
The conversion is a neat summary of 2020s Old Town. A national company owned two of its own concepts on two Scottsdale streets, decided the steakhouse earned more per square foot than the sushi bar, and moved one into the other. The press release reported a roughly eight-week remodel; the investor calls reported the payoff.
Honest assessment: STK is a chain, and it does not pretend otherwise. It is a good steak in a loud room with a DJ, at steakhouse prices, and the happy hours are the best deal in the building. Diners mourning RA Sushi’s corner should know that the party was always the point there; the menu just changed.