What's New At Market Street In DC Ranch This Summer: A Sushi Debut, Elvira's Second Season, And Starlight Nights In The Park

The short walk from the north end of Market Street to the south end used to be a tour of a dozen different owners. Fleming's on one corner, Grimaldi's a few doors down, Jalapeño Inferno on the H building, Liberty Station tucked into the Pima side. You could get through a whole summer without noticing who signed the leases.

That is not the walk anymore. As of this summer, three of the restaurants inside a two-minute stroll of each other, on the same block off Pima Road and Thompson Peak Parkway, all trace back to one hospitality group and one operator who happens to live inside the community. That is the change worth knowing about, and it reshapes how a DC Ranch evening at Market Street actually plays out.

The block that quietly became one operator's

Tom Kaufman is a DC Ranch resident, and through Kaufman Hospitality, he now runs three concepts inside Market Street's core cluster. The timeline is tighter than most residents realize:

• The Living Room — the anchor, opened at Market Street in 2014 and now in its second decade there
• Elvira's DC Ranch — opened January 3, 2025 in the former Jalapeño Inferno space
• Tomu-San Sushi — opened at the end of 2025 in the former Liberty Station space

The Living Room sits at 20751 N. Pima Road, Suite D-120. Elvira's took Suite H-110 across the way. Tomu-San slid into Suite 100 at 20825 N. Pima directly across from The Living Room and adjacent to Elvira's. Whitestone REIT owns Market Street, and Kaufman has publicly credited his decade-long working relationship with Whitestone for the ability to string three concepts together on the same block without one competing against the next. The pieces are deliberately different: a wine bar, a fine-dining Mexican room, a Japanese room. The result for a resident is that one walk can now cover cocktails, dinner, and a nightcap without leaving the operator's care.

Tomu-San Sushi, the piece that closed the circle

The sushi room is the newest and the most talked about. Phoenix Magazine's coverage confirmed the debut in December 2025, and the room settled into full rhythm through the first quarter of 2026. Executive Chef Christopher George, a twenty-year veteran of Roy's, runs the kitchen. The design leans warm woods, bamboo, bonsai, and pale light, with an open sushi counter, comfortable booths, and a slightly recessed curbside patio with glass-topped natural wood tables.

The menu is organized under a Japanese frame. The opening section is Hajimari — appetizers and the house miso, which gets silken tofu, scallions, and button mushrooms rather than the standard build. The edamame comes in a spicy garlic-ginger shoyu, and the Szechuan BBQ spare ribs are hickory smoked and finished with a Mongolian sauce. Among the rolls, the Aloha layers spicy tuna, cucumber, avocado, salmon, and hamachi under a house Aloha ponzu. The Chuck Norris pairs spicy salmon and panko-fried shrimp with salmon, avocado, togarashi, and lemon. There is a lobster California roll on the menu for the classicists, and a hamachi jalapeño tiradito for the diners who want a lighter, plated dish.

For residents who want to try it without booking a full dinner, two windows matter this summer. Lunch runs daily from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. and offers bento boxes alongside full-menu access, which makes it one of the few sit-down midday options at Market Street that is not a wine-bar patio. Happy hour runs 4:30 to 6 p.m. with a shorter list of rolls and cocktails at more approachable prices. The beverage program is deeper than the room suggests, with rare Japanese whiskies, sake flights, and zero-proof pairings built to match courses rather than fill glasses.

Elvira's in its second summer

Elvira's is now a full year and a half into its DC Ranch life, which changes the calculus for residents who visited during the opening crush of early 2025 and found no open tables. The Scottsdale room is a two-story, 3,600-square-foot space with lime-washed walls, handcrafted glass chandeliers, antique mirrors, a walk-in wine cellar, and limestone sculptures. It is more elegant than the original Tubac location, a choice Chef Ruben Monroy made explicitly for the North Scottsdale clientele.

The menu that survived the move is the reason to know the room. The Frida Kahlo Chile Poblano — a poblano stuffed with a savory filling, topped with chipotle frijole sauce and Oaxaca cheese — remains the signature dish. The Mole Negro pulls its chile chilhuacle rojo, pasilla cascabel, chile mulato, and chipotle from suppliers in Oaxaca, Puebla, and Mexico City rather than local approximation. There is a hazelnut mole at $34, a flank steak molcajete at $35, cuitlacoche chicken tacos at $25, and a guajillo shrimp at $38. Cocktail highlights include the Hibiscus Margarita and the Guanabanatini.

Current summer hours are Tuesday through Thursday and Sunday from 4:00 to 9:00 p.m., Friday and Saturday from 4:00 to 10:00 p.m., closed Monday. Happy hour runs 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. For residents who found the room impossible to book in 2025, the second-summer reservation window is meaningfully more forgiving on weeknights.

The Living Room, still the anchor

The Living Room is the piece most residents already know, so the useful update is what it looks like now that it is not the only Kaufman room on the block. The wrap-around fire-pit patio still faces out toward Market Street, and the wine wall still holds more than 200 wines with roughly 30 pours available through the self-serve dispensers by the taste or the glass. The food menu has always run wider than a wine-bar list suggests, with sushi, steak, and shareable plates. What has shifted is the traffic pattern. The patio now functions as a natural before-or-after room for the two newer concepts across the sidewalk, which is why summer weekend evenings feel busier there even when the menu has not changed.

What actually changes about a summer evening here

The temptation is to describe three restaurant updates and stop. The more honest read is that the block now supports a walking rhythm it did not support in 2024. A DC Ranch resident heading out for a Friday summer evening can now do all of the following inside a five-minute radius of Market Street Park, with the same hospitality group carrying the reservations:

1. A 4:30 sake flight at Tomu-San during happy hour
2. Dinner at Elvira's at 6:30 without leaving the block
3. A wine pour on the Living Room patio at 8:30 as the temperature drops
4. A walk over to Market Street Park for the Starlight Concert Series

That last piece is the one that ties it all together. The DC Ranch community's Starlight Concert Series runs at Market Street Park through the shoulder-summer months, with residents encouraged to walk or bike, bring lawn seating, and park at the south end of Market Street when they drive. The concert nights are free, run under the stars, and pull a heavy resident turnout. The reason the new dining lineup matters this year is that the park does not stand alone anymore. A concert night now has a walkable pre-show and a walkable post-show attached to it, all in the same block, without a car move.

For daytime and errand-hour rhythms, the older mix still holds. Fleming's Prime Steakhouse remains at Suite 100 on the northern side. Grimaldi's is a few doors east. The Herb Box keeps its all-day breakfast, lunch, and dinner menus and its outdoor seating. Eggstasy handles the morning shift on the Q100 side. Midwestern Meats runs its butcher-plus-restaurant hybrid for residents who want a protein run without a grocery store trip. Boutiques like BabyLux and Scottsdale Men's Shoppe fill the retail bays between the food anchors.

The single-operator cluster is not a takeover of Market Street. It is a change to what one specific block on Market Street does after 4:00 p.m. through the summer of 2026. For a resident who has walked past those storefronts for years and stopped noticing them, it is worth another walk.

If you have been thinking about how a change like this reshapes the day-to-day feel of a neighborhood — and how that feel eventually shows up in what homes here trade for — I would love to talk through it with you. Shannon Pulsifer works with DC Ranch buyers, sellers, and long-time residents who want a calm, informed conversation about what is actually happening in the community. Let's Connect.