"Scottsdale's most playful tasting menu: Cory Oppold, a James Beard semifinalist, runs a technical, witty multi-course sequence with a lobster corndog that turned into the city's most-photographed bite."
Course opened in Scottsdale in 2023 and built a following fast, named Emerging Restaurant of the Year in the 2024 Arizona Foodist Awards and listed on Yelp's national Best New Restaurants. It is led by chef Cory Oppold, a James Beard semifinalist for Best Chef: Southwest, who runs a tasting-menu room at 7366 E Shea Blvd.
The cooking is technical without being austere, playful without being gimmicky. For the wider field see the Scottsdale dining guide.
The kitchen runs a New American tasting menu that changes with the season and leans on technique with a sense of humour. The lobster corndog, with sweet potato, corn, Thai red curry, coconut and lemongrass, has become the signature bite, and the rest of the sequence is plated with the same precision. The format is five courses on weeknights, eight at the weekend.
See more of the city's fine-dining tables in the Scottsdale guide.
The room is small and counter-focused, built around the tasting-menu service rather than a bar scene, so the meal plays out as a sequence watched at close range. It suits a couple or a pair of friends far better than a large group, and seats are limited. Service runs Tuesday to Saturday evenings only, so book ahead.
The format leads for you: take the five-course menu at 135 dollars on Tuesday to Thursday, or the eight-course menu at 175 dollars on Friday and Saturday, and let the lobster corndog land mid-sequence. A pairing is offered alongside. For other options, see the fine-dining picks across Scottsdale.
Course suits a first date or a small celebration: a tasting-menu counter where the cooking is the entertainment and the room seats two comfortably. See more first-date tables and the Scottsdale dining guide.
Not for a large group, a quick dinner or a budget night: Course is a small tasting-menu counter at 135 to 175 dollars a head, paced across many courses, not a place to drop in or seat a crowd.
Course is led by chef Cory Oppold, a James Beard semifinalist for Best Chef: Southwest, who opened the restaurant in Scottsdale in 2023. He runs a New American tasting menu that changes with the season and leans on technique with a sense of humour. The lobster corndog, with Thai red curry and lemongrass, has become his signature bite.
Course is at 7366 E Shea Blvd, Suite 106, in Scottsdale. It is a small, counter-focused tasting-menu room rather than a large dining room with a bar scene. Service runs Tuesday to Saturday evenings only and seats are limited, so booking ahead is essential. The restaurant was named Emerging Restaurant of the Year in the 2024 Arizona Foodist Awards.
Course serves a five-course menu at 135 dollars on Tuesday to Thursday and an eight-course menu at 175 dollars on Friday and Saturday, with an optional pairing alongside. The menu changes seasonally and is plated with precision and humour. The lobster corndog, with sweet potato, corn, Thai red curry, coconut and lemongrass, is the most-photographed course.
Course is known for chef Cory Oppold's technical, playful tasting menus and for the lobster corndog that became its signature. It opened in 2023, was named Emerging Restaurant of the Year in the 2024 Arizona Foodist Awards and made Yelp's national Best New Restaurants list. It is a small counter-focused room serving set five- and eight-course menus rather than a-la-carte plates.
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