A Midtown Phoenix steakhouse that has been a Central Avenue anchor since 1950 — known equally for its prime dry-aged beef and for the Durant's ritual: entering through the kitchen rather than the front door, a tradition that's become one of Phoenix's most enduring restaurant rituals. The room is unreinvented mid-century clubby (red booths, dim lighting, mirrors, signed celebrity photos) and that's the point. Less reinvented than the newer Phoenix steakhouse destinations, more about over seven decades of consistent execution of the classic American steakhouse format. For genuinely institutional Phoenix steakhouse dining where the back-door entry ritual is the central act.