Best Restaurants for Wine Lovers in Scottsdale
10 restaurants on this list hold a 2026 Wine Spectator award. Best of Award of Excellence covers Cafe Monarch, J&G Steakhouse, Mastro’s Steak House, Mastro's City Hall, Virtù, BOURBON STEAK, and Maple & Ash. Award of Excellence covers The Mick Brasserie, Luna By Giada, and Marcellino. J&G Steakhouse, in Camlback Corridor, also holds a Star Wine List from the same year.
The House Brasserie, in Old Town Scottsdale, serves modern American cooking with French influence, an exceptional wine program, and an extensive wine list. The Mick Brasserie in Scottsdale pours 80 or more wines by the glass, with strengths in California and France. Pescada, in Market Street DC Ranch, has an extensive European wine list. Roka Akor, in Resort Corridor, pairs an exceptional list and sake with Japanese Wagyu and Certified Kobe beef.
How this list is chosen: Restaurants with a Wine Spectator Restaurant Award or a deep wine list, listed alphabetically. Updated October 8, 2026.
BOURBON STEAK
Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence · Deep wine list
Bourbon Steak at the Fairmont Scottsdale Princess operates at the premium end of the North Scottsdale steakhouse tier, where resort-scale settings and serious wine programs define the competitive set. The kitchen puts butter-poached prime cuts at the center of the menu, with a format that rewards both celebration dining and deliberate solo meals. Address: 7575 E Princess Dr, Scottsdale, AZ 85255.
Cafe Monarch
Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence · Deep wine list
A family-owned prix-fixe restaurant in Old Town Scottsdale, Cafe Monarch serves four-course menus built around seasonal, locally sourced ingredients in a setting that prioritises formal elegance over casual accessibility.
Dominick's Steakhouse
Deep wine list
Dominick's Steakhouse on North Scottsdale Road occupies a specific tier in Scottsdale's competitive steakhouse market, where red-meat provenance and room presence carry more weight than tasting-menu theatrics. The address places it squarely in the corridor where Arizona's premium dining establishments cluster, making it a practical anchor for visitors navigating the city's north-end restaurant concentration.
J&G Steakhouse
Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence · Deep wine list
J&G Steakhouse pairs classic steakhouse and seafood with an extensive wine list; Wine Spectator gave it a Best of Award of Excellence in 2026.
Luna By Giada
Wine Spectator Award of Excellence
Luna By Giada brings Italian-American cooking to Old Town Scottsdale's restaurant corridor, sitting in the tier of television-celebrity chef concepts that have planted serious kitchens in secondary food markets. The address on North Goldwater Boulevard places it within walking distance of Old Town's core, positioning it against both neighbourhood Italian independents and the broader Scottsdale fine-dining circuit.
Maple & Ash
Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence · Deep wine list
Maple & Ash occupies a sharp position in Scottsdale's upscale dining tier, where wood-fired technique and a serious wine program define the room as much as the beef. Located on Camelback Road in Old Town, it draws the city's business crowd alongside destination diners who arrive specifically for the cellar depth and fire-driven plates that have made it a recurring reference in Arizona's fine-dining conversation.
Marcellino
Wine Spectator Award of Excellence
Marcellino occupies a quiet stretch of Old Town Scottsdale where the Italian dining tradition runs deeper than most visitors expect. The address on Stetson Drive puts it within walking distance of the area's gallery corridor, and the room draws a regular crowd that books ahead rather than walks in.
Mastro's City Hall
Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence · Deep wine list
Mastro's City Hall anchors the Camelback corridor's premium steakhouse tier, bringing the group's signature combination of dry-aged beef, live entertainment, and theatrical service to central Scottsdale. The room operates at a different register than most Arizona steakhouses, with a front-of-house program that functions more like a performance than a meal. Expect serious wine depth and a crowd that dresses for it.
Mastro’s Steak House
Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence · Deep wine list
Mastro's Steak House on Pinnacle Peak Road sits in Scottsdale's premium steakhouse tier, drawing consistent recognition from Opinionated About Dining in both 2023 and 2024. The format centers on the grill: high-heat technique, tableside energy, and cuts calibrated for a desert-city crowd that expects its beef serious..
Orange Sky
Deep wine list
Orange Sky occupies a distinctive position in Scottsdale's fine dining conversation, drawing from the desert Southwest's ethical sourcing traditions and a commitment to environmental consciousness that shapes the menu from procurement through to plate. Located at 9800 East Talking Stick Way, the restaurant sits within a setting that rewards the kind of deliberate, unhurried dining that sustainability-minded kitchens tend to produce best.
Pescada
Deep wine list
Pescada occupies a suite-style address on North Pima Road in north Scottsdale, where the dining culture skews toward precision and restraint rather than spectacle. The name signals a seafood-forward identity in a city whose restaurant conversation is often dominated by steakhouses and desert-Southwest fare. It sits in a corridor increasingly populated by serious independent operators.
Reserve
Deep wine list
Reserve occupies a discreet address on East 1st Avenue in Old Town Scottsdale, operating in the tier of the city's more considered dining rooms where the format and progression of the meal take precedence over volume and spectacle. With sparse public data and a low public profile, it draws a regular clientele that appears to value that anonymity. Read our editorial assessment before booking.
Roka Akor
Deep wine list
Roka Akor sits at the northern end of Scottsdale Road, where the city's restaurant corridor thins out and the dining proposition shifts from scene-driven to destination-driven. The robatayaki format, live-fire Japanese grilling over binchōtan charcoal, places it within a specialist category that Scottsdale has historically underserved, making it a reference point for the city's more technically ambitious dining options.
Spiga Cucina Italiana
Deep wine list
Spiga Cucina Italiana brings Italian cooking to Scottsdale's North Pinnacle Peak corridor, where the city's sprawl gives way to quieter residential dining. Located at 7500 E Pinnacle Peak Rd, Spiga sits within a neighbourhood known for occasion-driven meals, placing it alongside a small group of Italian and European-leaning independents that serve the area's dinner-out crowd.
The House Brasserie
Deep wine list
On East Main Street in Old Town Scottsdale, The House Brasserie occupies a section of the city's dining corridor where European brasserie format meets the specific conditions of the Sonoran Desert. The kitchen draws on classical technique applied to regional produce, placing it alongside Scottsdale's more serious independent dining rooms rather than its resort-driven steakhouse circuit.
The Mick Brasserie
Wine Spectator Award of Excellence · Deep wine list
Wine Spectator 2026 Award of Excellence winner. Cuisine: French / Tapas. Wine strengths: California, France.
Virtù
Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence
Virtù pairs modern Mediterranean fine dining with craft cocktails and a terrace, and Wine Spectator gave it Best of Award of Excellence in 2026.
Planning restaurants for wine lovers in Scottsdale
- Which Wine Spectator tier shows up most on this list?
- Best of Award of Excellence is the Wine Spectator tier that appears most often on this list, on seven restaurants: Cafe Monarch, J&G Steakhouse, Mastro’s Steak House, Mastro's City Hall, Virtù, BOURBON STEAK, and Maple & Ash. Award of Excellence appears on three: The Mick Brasserie, Luna By Giada, and Marcellino. Those Spectator awards are dated 2026.
- Which neighborhood on this list has the most wine restaurants?
- Old Town Scottsdale has the most wine restaurants on this list, and the most Wine Spectator awards among them. Cafe Monarch, Mastro's City Hall, and Virtù hold Best of Award of Excellence, and Marcellino holds an Award of Excellence. The House Brasserie, also in Old Town Scottsdale, is on the list with an exceptional wine program.
- Which restaurant on this list states a 3,000-bottle collection?
- BOURBON STEAK, in North Scottsdale, is the restaurant on this list with a stated 3,000-bottle wine collection. It is chef Michael Mina's modern American steakhouse, served a la carte, with prime aged cuts. The wine program is exceptional and extensive. Wine Spectator gave it a Best of Award of Excellence in 2026.
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