Confluence is a small casual restaurant that serves upscale, elevated modern cuisine. This photo might look familiar and that is because Confluence is the former location of Cafe Bink. There’s a fresh new paint job and new modern fixtures. They offer lunch and dinner indoors or outdoors with mountain views.

A sort of new but familiar opening. The Chef and Owners are Chef Brandon and his wife who have worked for Chef Binkley for many years. There’s a lot of locally sourced offerings and some that are exotic too on the menus such as finger limes and white flesh salmon this week.

Dinner is meant for dining and plates are smaller and are meant to be enjoyed in multiple courses. Confluence offers a quality wine menu and glasses are generous pours.

They started us off with hot from the oven herbed focaccia bread with quality oil embellished with some vinegar..

We started with the Farm Egg with Farro, Cured Red Pepper Yolk, Brown Butter Crumbs and Grilled Leeks.

This is a very unique plate and is an interesting beginning. For me this dish runs too high with salt ( because the red pepper yolk is cured in salt) but for my husband it is just right.

For dinner I had the Red Snapper with Cucumber, Grapes, Flowers, Lentils, Fennel and Calabrain Chili.

WOW! This plate was extraordinary!

There are multitudes of perfect flavors going on here!

The fish is stunning, perfect light and flaky.

The skin has several different seasons but nothing is overpowering and this is the FORKING CRISPIEST Fish Skin I EVER HAD ANYWHERE! It is hard and crunchy like really crisp kettle chips.

This all rests in a masterfully prepared delicious broth with the most careful application of Calabrian Chili.

Next to the fish is a ring of fennel……I don’t know how they prepared this fennel but they zapped it with some kind of magic that makes it taste much better than normal fennel.

This ring of this amazing fennel contains well seasoned chewy beluga lentils with some embellishments of flowers, grapes, fresh herbs and crunchy cucumber.

This plate was Forking Awesome and it exceeded my expectations.

My Husband got the Duck.

My husband said that this was really good Duck.

I won’t eat a duck so we have to take my husband’s comment that this was really good duck. I note he really meant what he said….”Really Good Duck!” This plate was made of a seared breast, pastrami, a braised leg, cherries and melon.

Next we both shared the Caramelized White Chocolate Mousse.

It was a journey and adventure of textures and flavors that wasn’t too sweet. Mousses had this very delicate moist light as air texture. The plate was embellished with a caramelized topped fresh banana, macadamia nuts and banana bread.

That was my first taste at Confluence.

I’d say Confluence is Worth a Fork!

www.RestaurantConfluence.com

Everything is SUBJECT TO CHANGE and your experience may or may NOT differ.