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| - Salt, salt, salt.
Went to Café Bink last night, for the first time, for dinner with my parents and in-laws. Let me start off by saying that we are huge fans of Binkley's and think that it is one of the best restaurants in Arizona.
The service at Café Bink was very nice. Our waiter was attentive and responsive and actually seems to enjoy his job. Food on the other hand, well, judging by the other reviews here, they must have been having an off night.
Our table started with some appetizers and soup. I had the mushroom soup, which I thought was very good. Probably one of the best things that I tasted there. My wife ordered the mussels. Multiple people at the table tried them and they all agreed that they didn't taste right. They didn't taste 100% spoiled, but they just didn't taste fresh either.
We brought this to the attention of our waiter and he quickly removed the dish and brought it to the attention of the chef. I was able to see the chef taste the mussels (in the reflection of the window) and his response was that they taste fine. Strange, but it was appropriate that they removed the dish from our bill.
Next up was Amy's Bolognese. Everyone has raved about how great this is so both my wife and mother ordered it as their main course. I could not believe how over salted the dish was. It wasn't as if it was a little bit of salt. Salt was the predominate taste of the dish and it was terrible. We were now starting to actually feel guilty about sending back another dish, but it had to be done as the Bolognese was not edible.
Our waiter was very nice, again, when we brought this to his attention. He had the manger come over as well. We told her that it was very salty and she said that they actually get that complaint pretty often. Really? You are told that your food is over salted and yet you continue to cook it that way? Her response was that since many people don't cook with much salt at home they aren't used to it when they go out to a restaurant that uses salt.
While that may be true, I have never had this problem at any other restaurant and I don't think that a quality chef should be using that much salt to define their dishes.
I ordered the Steak Frittes and asked to have it cooked medium rare. I would have appreciated knowing up front that the steak is actually only a quarter inch think and therefore cannot really be cooked to order. While the steak wasn't salty, it definitely wasn't anything great. Bland and boring are the best way to describe it.
My father ordered the Beef Stew off of the waiter's recommendation. Guess what? Way over salted. The other two dishes that the table got were the Scallops and the Fried Chicken. At least the chicken was supposed to be salty.
While I feel bad for writing such a poor review, I can honestly say that our party was extremely disappointed with the meal last night. For those prices the food was not worth it. The presentation was boring and the flavor was totally ruined by all of the salt.
We might try it again, but probably not anytime soon.
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