Maple & Ash

Steakhouses aren’t the most electric places to eat these days, but Maple & Ash jolts fresh life into the old American concept. An import from Chicago, the massive, modern, glitzy, 250-seat meat temple a gem’s throw from the Scottsdale Waterfront uses a wood-fired grill to sear steaks from affordable hangar to $175 dry-aged tomahawk rib-eye. […]

Marcellino Ristorante

Classy, upscale Italian spot where you’ll find some of the best house-made pastas in town. Everything from gnocchi in tomato sauce and saffron linguini with clams to red and white strozzaprete (priest-stranglers) and black fettuccine with lobster. Fish and meat entrees are more expensive, but if you stick to the pasta, you won’t be disappointed, […]

Mastro’s City Hall Steakhouse

Another offering from the Mastro’s Group, with the same USDA Prime steak, chops and seafood menu, but a more modern decor. Meat portions are huge (33-ounce rib chop) and slathered in sizzling butter. Everything is à la carte, with one-pound baked potatoes and vats of creamed corn swimming in half-and-half. It’s not healthful, but it […]

Mastro’s Ocean Club

High style, high prices. Ocean does for seafood what Ruth’s Chris has done for steaks. Everything is à la carte and served in big portions from white-jacketed, black-bow-tied servers. First-class fish isn’t entirely different from many other good seafood shops around town (at half the price), but for a place to impress on an expense […]

Mastro’s Steakhouse

A smart-looking, high-end steak house, featuring USDA Prime-grade beef. The 22-ounce bone-in rib eye is a thing of beauty, a marvel of taste and texture. The New York strip and T-bone are just about as powerful. Excellent appetizers and desserts (not to mention well-trained waiters) add to Mastro’s charms. Read our review.

Maya

Either by design or happenstance, the cluster of bars and clubs making up Scottsdale’s most popular portion of its downtown entertainment district on Saddlebag Trail is centered around Maya. It makes sense, considering that come the weekend, most clubgoers are likely heading to the combination dayclub and nightclub. Aimed squarely at the young-and-beautiful crowd, it’s […]

McDonald’s

The world’s largest fast food chain, McDonald’s does business on an almost unimaginably massive scale: 1.7 million employees serve nearly 60 million customers daily at more than 34,000 locations in 119 countries, including plenty in Phoenix. Founded as a single drive-in in San Bernadino, California in 1940, the mega-corporation represented by the Golden Arches has […]

McDowell Mountain Ranch Aquatic & Fitness Center

We’re not sure what we like more about this place: the pools, the views, or the architecture (considering we spent more time admiring Phil Weddle’s rusted steel and glass aquatic center building than we spent actually swimming). Not only does this place feature myriad aquatic options – including an eight-lane lap pool, a diving well […]