The restaurant Five Doors North used to be five doors north of Gio the lively restaurant which only had a big nose protruding onto the street as it's sign. I took my mom to Gio's a few years ago where decor included a washing line of women's bras and panties over our table, graffiti on the wall and other interesting bits and bobs hanging around the restaurant (we really loved it).
Now the restaurant Five Doors North is just that - a restauarant with no link to its interesting name. It is actually not five doors north of anything except another restaurant that opened after Gio's - which has now shut down. Five Doors North does have interesting decor -crazy vintage lamps hanging from the ceiling - and great service - our waiter was superb, lovely and overall truly wonderful!
Well at Five Doors North we had a lovely birthday celebration with some lovely Aussie wine and some great antipasti and mains. I ordered the crab cake starter and the eggplant main (see pic). The crab cake was lacking in some wow-inducing flavour but the eggplant was lovely with an interesting red pepper puree and a pesto sauce which gave the large chunk of Sicilian eggplant flavour.
Sis and the Brit got the spicy seafood stew with mussels, calamari, shrimp & stripe bass which they raved about while the other guests got salmon encrusted with pumpkin and sunflower seed and the ravioli with a veal jus. Yummy!
It was all very well made and fresh which is always good. My only comment is that some things were a bit salty which for me is a big comment as I do like to have more salt than others on my food.
I recommend it and it is only a hop, skip and a few doors south of the corner of Yonge & Eglinton.
And... it's old neighbour Gio's is now on Queen St. East in Leslieville and is called Gio Rana's Really Really Nice Restaurant - it still has no sign, just the big nose!
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