five restaurant bistro

crowd pleaser. ambience: we love the decor. it's hip and comfortable, but not stuffy! it's obvious that the owners put a lot of thought into the design. it's great for a casual date, dinner with friends or a family outing.
menu: we like the clever idea of having five items in the different food categories (as the name would imply). we always prefer fewer menu items that are tried and true!
our favorites: the scallop appetizer is crazy good...so good that our friend turned around and ordered it again as her entree. the farm pizza is super addictive..you'll be back for more! the pizza crust has a hint of salt that makes it irresistible (even for the anti-crust crowd). the dinner size chop salad was plenty large to share. kids will love the mac-n-cheese. and, don't get us started on the gelato topped with an espresso shot. the stumptown espresso served here is the best in town. treat yourself to a croque madame for breakfast one day. you will not be disappointed!

so wanted to like this restaurant. very disappointing and $$$$$. i am just home from our first visit to five and we all so wanted to like it!! i am sad that it was so disappointing. there were 4 of us. we ordered a bottle of the house red. at $24, it was more like a gallon wine....you know, the kind by the jug for $5 a gallon. ok, we can get past it. so we ordered 2 salads to share and 3 pizzas to share. the salads for $10.95 were smaller than a jack in the box salad with far less flavor. we were enticed to order the one with fennel and fresh basil, cherry tomatoes and mozzarella. it was called an entree salad but it was so not that. no flavor, very bland and very small. ok, let's move on to pizzas. still having our hopes up, we ordered the one with arugula and prisciutto, the sausage one and the pear one. the only one with any flavor was the sausage one (with 3 small pieces of sausage). boring, bland and expensive. the bill for 4 of us came to $93. portofinos would kick it's behind or even the new ebulo restaurant's pizza in edmonds. so sad. we won't be back. it's not often that you are disappointed with every single item you ordered and we ordered a lot. sorry five......

being appreciative. last night was our first try there and we'll be back. the servers were fine but brought all our food at once. the manager was very nice and gave us a free pizza, slowed down the food to match our 'euro' pace and allowed us to really have a nice dinner. food good, normal, not huge portions, a little noisy but cleverly decorated and we'll go back for lunch or maybe breakfast too! house wine, lovely.

great neighborhood addition. had lunch at five bistro in edmonds today. the food and service were simple and excellent. this will be a favorite spot for my family and i. great addition to our neighborhood.