During the pandemic we are giving our support to as many restaurants as we can. These are the worst of times and all restaurants are hemorrhaging money. We’ve also noticed that some restaurants have already closed permanently.

First place that we did take out from was our long time favorite for take out….Banh Mi Bistro Vietnamese Eatery in Phoenix. It’s a Pho-Free eatery but does offer most of your other Vietnamese favorites. We packed up the dogs to come for the ride and they started licking their mouths in sync when we got there.

I got the delicious curry chicken.

My husband got a shaking beef banh mi.

We always enjoy Banh Mi Bistro Vietnamese Eatery.

Next take out was from Confluence Restaurant in Carefree. We also been to Confluence many times. The food is always astonishingly FANTASTIC!

OMG YUM! The food really is Forking Extraordinary!

I had the halibut tacos. WOW they are melt in your mouth amazing! Almost nobody prepares fish this great!

My husband had the pork belly Rueben on chocolate rye.

This was another YUM-DINGER! We both with with the side salads as our sides, shared some delicious Brussels sprouts and enjoyed macerated strawberries! This really was quite a treat!

Since we are dining at home we had to share the goodies.

We also did take out this week from Pita Kitchen in Glendale. It’s a little casual Greek Restaurant.

I got my usual chicken kabob Greek salad but I tried their jalapeño cilantro hummus for the first time.

The chicken is developed with flavors and has a nice char. The fresh baked pita breads are very good too. The hummus is creamy and taste like cilantro…..I’m not getting the jalapeño but sometimes jalapeños can be very mild sometimes.

My husband got his usual Gyro Greek Salad.

We happened to have help eating the large portions.

We thought it was time to treat ourselves and we did the 5 course take out from Binkley’s in Phoenix. ($$$$$fine dining restaurant) ((but take out was many times less than dining in there))

First course was green garlic and potato soup.

Next was marinated cucumbers with crab, kumquats, yogurt, dill and red onion.

Third course was spinach and sorrel salad with spiced hazelnuts, feta, cranberries and sherry vinaigrette.

Our main courses were house made corned beef with red wine braised cabbage, apple balsamic mustard, Irish soda bread and honey butter.

Dessert was mulberries with mint and maple quark…WOW what a treat!

Oh and we had some help with this.

My dogs don’t know that they are lucky dogs that eat better than most people.

Last take out this week was from Cucina Tagliani in Glendale.

I got the strawberry and goat cheese salad that comes with grilled chicken.

They always have really great strawberries and their house made dressings are very good.

My husband had a Stromboli today.

The dogs enjoyed sharing our meals.

That was week 5 of Take Out During the CoronaVirus Pandemic. The restaurants we did take out with this week were-

Banh Mi Bistro Vietnamese Eatery

Confluence

Pita Kitchen

Binkley’s

Cucina Tagliani

If you care about any restaurant you should at least do some take out from them.

Everything is subject to change and we hope it does for the better!