Zinc Bistro is a French Style Restaurant located in the Kierland Commons Shopping Center in Scottsdale Arizona. They offer a quaint little restaurant that looks like it’s been here for decades. Everything looks very old fashioned and formal. There’s a tin ceiling, some antiques, old fashioned fixtures.

Zinc Bistro also offers outdoor dining as well. The patio sort of wraps around the building and there is a sort of inside partial patio that’s relaxing to dine in.

I’ve been here several times mostly for dinner and almost everything was OUTSTANDING!

These are just some of the previous foods we enjoyed at Zinc Bistro.

These were all exquisite!

Today we decided to try Lunch at Zinc Bistro.

I went with the Curry Chicken Salad Sandwich.

My Sandwich is on pumpernickel bread.  This pumpernickel is a style that I am not familiar with but it reminds me of those molasses dark breads that certain steak houses serve. I do note they gave me a generous  portion of Curry Flavored Chicken Salad…It seemed very fresh and was full of tender chunks of chicken. This salad was embellished with a couple of sherried raisins and the sandwich ran on the sweet side. I can’t help to wonder why there’s a sticky brown spill down my plate? The brown spill doesn’t look appetizing to me. It looks like something horrific you might see in a gas station rest room.

I was looking at my old photos and I noticed I had this very same sandwich a few years ago at the Zinc Bistro airport location.

They might prepare the sandwich different now but the sandwich a had a few years back from the Zinc Bistro Airport location seemed more detailed. I do remember at the time that I really liked this sandwich from the airport location.  Or maybe it just tasted better without a brown drip down the plate.

On this visit my husband tried the Brisket Pastrami Sandwich.

It was a smaller sandwich made with high quality ingredients. My husband said the bread was good and the stock was very good full favored of beef. When he opened the sandwich I saw that it  had very little filling so I didn’t try any. My husband said the brisket had very little traditional pastrami flavor and when he dunked the sandwich he didn’t taste pastrami at all because it only tasted like beef. The sandwich also contained a small amount of high quality cheese and a thick slice of heirloom tomato. Although each and every ingredient in the sandwich was indeed quality…we both thought……..$16.00 was a lot for such a small sandwich that contained much less than a weight watcher’s allotment.

Most of the dinners we had here at Zinc Bistro were outstanding or even better than outstanding……but lunch…..I’m not feeling the same at this moment. Maybe it’s just me….? Perhaps the lunch menu offers better choices that I didn’t try?

I’d say Dinners at Zinc Bistro are worth a Fork!

www.ZincBistroAZ.com

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