Confluence is a small restaurant that serves an ever changing menu of farm fresh modern elevated American cuisine located in Carefree Arizona. They offer patio dining with a view of the mountains. They also offer a cozy dining room and bar seating.
They always start you off with a house made bread.
Today it was a generous slice of crusty sourdough served with oil and white balsamic vinegar.
We started out with a hot appetizer of gnocchi.
The gnocchi were pan fried and were elevated with morel mushrooms, cured goose egg yolk, ramps and thyme.
For dinner I usually go with a fish dish because Confluence serves some of the best fish dishes in the valley and it’s hard to get super great fish dishes in the valley…….(but really everything they serve is always excellent)………. Today I went with the filet mignon. This is the first time I ever ordered a steak from here for dinner.
The fillet is very flavorful and is tender like butter. For me it’s a very large portion too. The flavors of the vegetables next to the steak go magically well together. They are fiddlehead ferns, white asparagus, black eyed peas, basil creme fraiche and a fried green tomato. This plate cost much less than filet my husband had from a well known steak house and is so much better and a million times more flavorful. This has to be maybe the nicest best filet mignon plate that you can get anywhere. Prices for filet mignon start at what this steak cost and sometimes are $25. MORE and DON’T come with sides……and if you buy the sides they sure won’t be this nice……….. That is part of the reason on why it’s a great fine dining value to eat here. The tasting menu options are the other reason. They just knock it out of the park with them.
My husband got the Iberiaco pork loin.
It’s as pretty as a picture.
It was also prepared to perfection and came with corn grits, caulilini, brussel’s sprouts, and pomegranate.
For dessert we went with the lemon curd with shortbread, elderflower macerated strawberries and fresh mint.
Everything was equally stupendous!
That was just a Taste of Confluence in Carefree – Great Value Fine Dining
Worth a Fork!
www.RestaurantConfluence.com
Everything is subject to change.
