Pastry Chef Shares Restaurant Desserts Ocean 44 is known for fresh seafood and premium steaks, but our desserts are just as delicious! Our house-made Triple Layer Key Lime Pie and Ultimate Warm Vanilla Caramel Cake are both popular choices for guests to finish their meal with something sweet. Chocolate lovers can treat themselves to our incredible Triple Chocolate Bombe or [...]
Sometimes things don’t go as planned. Ocean 44 executive chef Marc Lupino flew to the remote fishing village of Cordova, Alaska, to take part in the “first fish” of the Copper River salmon season. Chefs fly out yearly to “take some glamour photos of them with a fish in their hand, they’ll bring it back and act like they caught it,” [...]
In 2014, Jeff Mastro and his brother, Mike, embarked on a brainstorming tour of elite East Coast steakhouses. It had been seven years since the Mastro family sold its namesake chain of high-end restaurants, and the non-compete clause that prohibited them from launching new ventures was off the books. Consequently, the siblings were looking for inspiration to take back home [...]
I’m sitting at a high-top with three friends in the swank, glass-walled lounge at Ocean 44, the hardest place to get a reservation in all of Scottsdale, and life is tasting pretty sweet. Built from the ground up over the carcass of the old Harkins Camelview 5 near Scottsdale Fashion Square, the stunning Judi Testani-designed space thrums with energy, the [...]
Restaurateurs and brothers Jeff Mastro and Mike Mastro will be returning to the fine-dining seafood segment with the opening of Ocean 44 in Scottsdale, Ariz., in November. Restaurateurs' Industry Success The brothers are following a modernized blueprint of their success. The family first launched the Mastro’s Steakhouse and Mastro’s Ocean Club brands in 1999. In 2007, they sold those properties to Kinderhook [...]