Best Seafood Restaurants in Scottsdale
Scottsdale, Arizona — updated August 22, 2026
Six Scottsdale seafood spots ranked by how convincingly they pull it off, from a counter-service fish market in the 85257 to an underground steak-and-seafood room that has been packing tables for decades.
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Scottsdale is a desert city several hundred miles from salt water, which means every raw bar and every fillet here arrives by plane. That logistical fact sorts the field quickly: the places worth the drive are the ones with enough volume and enough turnover to keep the fish moving. The six below are ranked on how well they answer the seafood question specifically, with review counts used as a measure of how settled each rating actually is.
1. Ocean 44
The strongest combination of rating and evidence in the city: 4.7 stars across 2,207 reviews, which is a lot of people agreeing about a restaurant that is not cheap. It sits on Goldwater Boulevard in Old Town, walking distance from the Scottsdale Waterfront, so it draws both the reservation crowd and people wandering in from the district. High-end seafood rooms tend to slide when they get busy and this one has held its number through more than two thousand write-ups. Book ahead for weekend evenings, when Old Town parking becomes its own project.
2. Chula Seafood
The most purely seafood-focused business on this list, and the one that operates closest to a fish counter rather than a dining room. The Roosevelt Street location in south Scottsdale holds 4.7 stars from 402 reviews, a very good number on a sample that is respectable without being enormous. Call it strongly promising rather than fully settled. Because it runs on a counter model, the experience is closer to lunch than to an occasion dinner, and it suits anyone who wants the fish itself to be the point instead of the room around it.
3. Salt Cellar Restaurant
The Hayden Road institution, and the most tested restaurant in this guide: 2,561 reviews, more than any other name here. Its 4.4 average is lower than the top of the list, but a 4.4 built on that many visits is a proven quantity rather than a small crowd's enthusiasm. It is a longstanding Scottsdale steak-and-seafood room, subterranean and dim, and it fills late in a way most restaurants in this town do not. Go when you want the old-guard version of a Scottsdale seafood dinner rather than the current one.
4. Maui Fish House
Tucked into a Shea Boulevard shopping center in north Scottsdale, well away from the Old Town dinner circuit, with 4.6 stars from 664 reviews. That is a solid, mid-sized sample: enough to trust, not so much that the rating is bulletproof. The strip-mall address works in its favor for anyone north of the 101 who does not want to fight downtown parking for a plate of fish. Suite 110 is easy to miss from the road, so watch the numbers rather than the signage as you pull in.
5. Uchi Scottsdale
The raw-fish entry, on Scottsdale Road south of the Waterfront, holding 4.5 stars over 514 reviews. It is a dinner-out sushi restaurant rather than a neighborhood counter, and its sample size is moderate, so treat the rating as well supported but still accumulating. It lands here rather than higher because 4.5 from 514 is a step behind what the top three have already demonstrated over larger crowds. Reservations are the sane approach for a Friday or Saturday.
6. Modern Corner Grill
The thinnest case on this list, and worth saying so directly. It carries 4.6 stars from 413 reviews at the north end of Scottsdale Road, near the Kierland and Grayhawk end of town, which is a good rating on a reasonable sample. But it is a grill first, so seafood is one part of a broader kitchen rather than its whole identity. If you are already up north and want a well-reviewed room where fish is an option among others, it fits. If seafood is the entire reason for the trip, the five above are the surer bets.
What we left off
Eddie V's Prime Seafood, on North Scottsdale Road, rates well and runs a long happy hour, but it is a national chain with locations across the country and falls outside what this guide covers. Lure Fish House came off for the same reason: it is part of a multi-location group rather than a Scottsdale original. Both are easy to find if a chain is what you want; the list above is for the ones you can only eat at here.