🥩 Durant’s Steakhouse, one of the Valley’s most iconic restaurants, officially reopens today, welcoming diners back through its legendary back door and into a dining room steeped in red leather, low lighting, and decades of political deals, power lunches, and celebratory martinis.
The 75-year-old Phoenix restaurant was sold in February to the Mastro family’s Prime Steak Concepts (Steak 44, Ocean 44, and Dominick’s Steakhouse) and closed for “two to five months’’ of restoration and kitchen improvements that stretched to 10 months.
The building near the northeast corner of Central and Virginia has a fresh coat of pink paint, and diners still enter through the back and walk through the kitchen. The reupholstered booths still are red, and porterhouse club plaques and neon signs still adorn red walls.
The most noticeable change is the menu, which upgrades many of the old favorites – including the signature 36-ounce porterhouse for two ($175) – and also adds more options, especially for appetizers, sides, and caviar service.
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