After having been dragged to his restaurant in Carefree with the freakish menu of bizarre food which the Coen Brothers on a good day could not dream up, I was really skeptical of Bink's Midtown. I must say that Binkley is starting to read his market or perhaps sees that the new is starting to wear off his \""fine dining\"" concept. Here, he seems to be trying to get it right. There are enough freakish things on the menu such as roasted marrow bone (gag!) and he's big on mussels. This is Arizona. I've had mussels out of the water in Nova Scotia and this is just too far away. I want to keep on living. No thanks.\n\nThose items aside, Bink's is making a stab at reasonable prices and food that is creative yet non-freakish and non-threatening. He can keep the cauliflower and Brussels sprouts. That's not food. That's what food eats. \n\nBink's hits the need for lunch and happy hour and in these areas he does pretty well. Portions are small as at any Bink's place but decent. He makes a good but not a great burger. Salads are really, really fresh with good accompaniments and dressings. The happy hour menu is very reasonable and can serve as a sufficient early dinner. His express lunch concept is to offer two broad categories with three selections within each and he promises you will be in and out in 30 minutes and he delivers on this. Express Lunch is $15 and you're done. Still kind of an expensive fast lunch but not bad to treat one's self. \n\nI still think he has a long way to go in order to leave behind the freaky menu of his anchor restaurant in Carefree but he is making a gallant effort to offer food that people have heard of without being strange just for the sake of being strange or avoiding comparison with other restaurants. This will never be a favorite of mine but I am glad I let myself be dragged there to see that Binkley is at least trying to accommodate the local market and not just well-heeled snowbirds who apparently will eat anything at any price.