Confluence is a small casual but upscale restaurant located in beautiful Carefree Arizona. They offer Painstakingly detailed farm to table elevated modern cuisine.
The atmosphere is classic with modern touches.
Seating is available at traditional tables, the bar or on the patio with mountain views.
Tonight they started us off with delicious crusty complimentary house made country bread with house made black pepper and lemon ricotta cheese.
We picked a cold appetizer of Ceviche.
The Ceviche was very unique and full of delicious changing flavors with different textures. It was made with a mild New Zealand Fish with black garlic, yucca, black beans, cilantro, onions that were turned into crisps, avocado, tomato and guajillo chili.
Next we shared the Sweet Potato Ravioli.
Wow! What an amazing dish. Even the radicchio is ridiculously DELICIOUS….I really had no idea how it was made to taste so good..The waitress told me that the radicchio was cooked with red wine and brown sugar….who knew…? Same thing with the leeks….they taste better than leeks…I should have asked how they make leeks taste that good. Everything on the plate was better than very good…it astonishingly spectacular food………This plate was pure bliss.
I had the Red Sea Bream with moscato raisin, turnip, jicama, haricot vert, meyer lemon and gnocchi.
Not only is this a stunning plate visually……..The Flavors are mind-blowing. The fish is perfect and seasoned perfect. The little green things are the green beans…….They aren’t like anything I can describe…….They almost pop or burst in the mouth with this most amazing slightly sweet pickled kind of taste that is very complex….And then when you hit another vegetable it just adds another interesting layer. Then there are the gnocchi….They really do melt in your mouth…They have a toasted exterior and inside is just melty cheesy goodness.
My husband had the Grilled Pork Tenderloin, pork ragout, pine nut, beet, polenta, bacon.
My husband just kept saying, “this is really good!” and “This guy can really cook!”
Dessert is just as great as the food courses so you have to get dessert.
Was torn between all four offerings but went with the one called Peanut.
It’s a mix of all kinds of things Peanut, Strawberry and Port. There’s semifreddo, brittle, fresh strawberries, crunchy strawberries, cold smooth peanuts, peanut crunch, peanut dust…the port….every bite taste different.
Service was friendly and efficient!
Dinner at Confluence really is like from another planet delicious….The way things get transformed into mind-blowing is thrilling! It seems like magic!
Confluence is always Worth a Fork!
www.RestaurantConfluence.com
Everything is subject to change and your experience may or may not differ.
Some prior dishes from Confluence
