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| - I had heard rave reviews of the Bink restaurants and was excited for my first foray.
Well, that excitement was soon tempered by a less-than-stellar experience.
We arrived and were seated. I took a good 7 minutes for us to even be acknowledged at our seats. Finally, we asked for some water which was brought to us with a perfunctory "sorry." Then, we had to ASK for bread. Finally, our drink orders were taken, and we waited for our drinks in the time it would've taken to ferment a glass of wine. The gimlet I had was just meh. I've had better.
Then, it took forever for the waiter to take our food order. Once he did, we waited, and waited.....and waited. He then told us that they were short-staffed that night and was profusely apologetic. That helped ease the experience, but frankly not enough. The butternut squash soup was good, but overall the food wasn't great. The cauliflower tasted like they had haphazardly emptied their entire artisanal salt shaker onto it. It wasn't worth complaining about, because by the time we could get anyone's attention and a new order it would've been a good hour.
I recommend the push-pop dessert which was made with lime sorbet and oatmeal ice cream. It tasted like a key lime pie. It was made ahead of time so was actually brought out rather quickly.
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