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| - I visit Phoenix at least twice a year, and go out with one of my best friends who lives in Phoenix at least once each visit; I can always count on her to take me somewhere great, and she took me to Bink's Midtown last night with her partner. I LOVED IT!
ATMOSPHERE... comfortable and pulled together.
I liked the light colors on the walls (mostly white), high ceiling, and the photography. It felt airy and open and pulled together and comfortable yet classy. As others have written, it's in basically a remodeled house, which is a great feel for a restaurant -- comfortable and cozy. Given its location, you feel as if you stumbled upon a gem.
We were there on a Monday night. The restaurant was about half full, not at all crowded. Of course, there was a huge storm that night, so perhaps that kept some people away. The people should flock to Bink's!
FOOD... amazing!
Between the three of us, we shared the following:
SMALL PLATES:
Deep Fried Baby Back Rib (tamarind, sesame, yogurt)
Green Chile Pork Pupusa (salsa verde, apple, radish)
Sweetbreads Nuggets (sweet & sour sauce, peanuts, scallions)
Burrata (pistachios, fruit crostini, peach preserves)
Melons (pumpkin seeds, chili piquin, ricotta salata, mint, sangria granitè)
Corn (shallot, jalapeno, clamshell mushrooms, epazote, sumac)
Fried Red Potatoes (herbs, garlic, poached egg, brava sauce, crème fraîche)
ENTREE: Pork Chop (garlic fennel sausage, green tomato chow chow)
DESSERT: Chocolate Pudding Cake (toasted graham cracker marshmallow fluff)
My cocktail: a melon gin and tonic
Everything was good, so good, difficult to explain how good. This type of restaurant is my favorite -- lots of small plates with local ingredients. I love eating a variety of foods when I go out, so it's very fun to go out with close friends and share.
I also prefer restaurants that prepare foods in ways that I would not think to prepare at home. For instance, the melon salad was garnished with frozen sangria! It melted as we ate -- what a great touch (and flavor). It was so fun to experience combinations of ingredients that I would not have combined myself -- and they all worked for me!
WE LOVED THE GREEN CHILE PORK PUPUSA. I can't say enough about how good it was. The shredded pork went well with the chili sauce and the crispiness was just right.
The poached egg was a fun touch with the potatoes and I liked the flavor of the brava sauce.
I was full before the entree came -- sharing the small plates would have been enough -- but the pork chop entree was still worth having -- delicious, juicy, and well seasoned.
I would have reordered everything except the sweetbreads and the pork chop. The sweetbreads just reminded me of sweet and sour chicken, which isn't my favorite thing, and the pork chop was good, but just tasted like a standard pork chop. Everything else was both unusual and delicious -- my two favorite qualities in dishes.
My cocktail was a lot of fun, because the ice cube was a frozen ball of honeydew melon, which I appreciated because the drink did not get watered down and it added a nice dimension of flavor.
I would go back! Yum!
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