After the evening service this Saturday, the crew at Five Bistro will be taking a two-week break before reopening on September 13 with more tasting options and a special late-night menu.
For some time now, chef-owner Anthony Devoti has offered 3-course tasting menus for $25 on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays (Check out a sample menu here.). Soon, this increasingly taste-centric eatery will include the addition of a 5-course prix fixe for $55 on Fridays and Saturdays as well. Devoti hopes this “unbelievable deal” – both for the price as well as the product (90 percent of which is locally sourced) – will be well received and that it will pave the way for two distinct 5-course tasting menus at the restaurant in the future. For the moment, an à la carte menu will still be available at the restaurant, located at 5100 Daggett Ave., on The Hill, when it reopens next month.
Also in September, Devoti will launch a late-night menu at Five, which will be available Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays from 10 p.m. until midnight. Moonlight revelers can rest assured that the restaurant’s famed Five Burger will be available, along with other pub-grub-with-a twist items like fried deviled eggs and poutine, a Quebec specialty consisting of French fries and cheese curds topped with gravy. “We want to give people more late-night options,” Devoti explained.
This article appears in Aug 1-31, 2011.