Sometimes you will have a bad day no matter what when you go out to eat. This day I was looking forward to a nice meal at Cafe Bink in Carefree Arizona. I get weekly emails from Binkley’s (was the Mothership of Cafe Bink…now former mothership) Sometimes they sent information about Cafe Bink in their emails so I wasn’t expecting Cafe Bink to be closed for business. I (used to) look at  Cafe Bink’s Facebook Page every week too hoping for some kind of special to read about. However nothing new has been written there in a while. Today I thought was a good day to go to Cafe Bink. We drive into the parking lot and it’s oddly empty. We see a note on the door and read that Cafe Bink Closed June 21st 2018……..Wow…how sad….I enjoyed so many amazing things at that restaurant over the years.

Here are not all but a few of the dishes I enjoyed there.

You can see from my photos that Cafe Bink was a special place. Although it’s a painful good bye to Cafe Bink it is also soon to be a great big hello to a New Restaurant to be named Confluence. I expect that the new restaurant might be just as good since it is owned and run by a very experienced former Binkley’s Chef Brandon Gauthier.

Well it’s time to move on….I will go someplace else.

I’ll try The Bacan Restobar….It’s just up the street and is a Tapas Restaurant.

That sounds fun and different.

Oh my!

What’s this on the door.

They suddenly changed their hours and didn’t update their website.

Dang!

Now I have to find another place.

I end up here……somewhere in Metro Phoenix.

I don’t care to reveal the name of the restaurant.  The people working there were really nice and friendly………but The Forking Truth is that……It was the food………Somethings we ordered were good…….. but some things sucked too. I hope I just hit them on an off day?

I got the Walleye Platter because I really like Walleye and it wasn’t fried here! YEAH!

I have to admit the Walleye was pretty good.I got a nice big filet that wasn’t butchered (like the last walleye I had somewhere) The skin was removed and the fish tasted good and was light and flaky.  Nothing was wrong with the Walleye…..except that it shared a plate with this corn. The corn on my plate was very strange tasting with a strange texture. I have no idea on how such corn was prepared. Each kernel was like a little soft sac filled with strange tasting really soft loose sweet and sour mush that squished out of the little very soft kernel sacs…..The corn was not appetizing….. The potatoes were cooked nicely but didn’t taste like the rosemary potatoes I was expecting.  The sweet tomatoes would have been good but they picked up some of that corn taste that was weird. My stomach is still turning when I think about the corn from this place. I just keep thinking about that corn. Did I mention that I didn’t like the corn?

My husband ordered a Brisket Sandwich WITHOUT THE MAYONNAISE.

The sandwich comes out WITH MAYONNAISE.

The sandwich goes back to the kitchen.

The sandwich gets remade and returns.

Let’s start with the good.

The house made Carolina Sauce that the sandwich came out with is very good!

Nothing is wrong with the bread.

House made chips are crisp.

I taste a piece of brisket. WOW it’s dry and tasteless……………

My husband also didn’t like the breaded bacon on the sandwich…He said the breading just made the sandwich even more dry and the breaded bacon didn’t add the bacon flavor to the sandwich.

My husband was really grumpy from this sandwich.

That’s how it went.

First stop was Cafe Bink…found out they just closed for business this week so I didn’t get to eat there.

Second stop was Bacan Restobar…..just changed their hours and didn’t update their website so I didn’t get to eat there either.

Third stop was someplace somewhere in metro Phoenix. The Walleye was good but we left remembering the weirdest unappetizing corn ever and a really dry tasteless brisket sandwich.

Sometimes you are just going to have a FORKING BAD DAY when you go out to eat.

EVERY FORKING THING is subject to change and your experience may or may not differ.