 FEBRUARY 6 • 2020 | 61

Standout menu continues to 
bring back customers.

5th Year for 
5th Tavern

the best of everything
Raskin

T

he recently passed 
5th anniversary of the 
5th Tavern restaurant 
marked one of the biggest 
dreams an eatery can attain. 
 The beginning of 2020 tells 
the owners and 
employees what 
is thrillingly in 
store for them 
in the new year. 
It helps to 
have so many 
customers who 
love it with 
extreme passion.
Operated by partners Jerry 
and Louis Sanchez … and 
largest in the small chain 
owned by George Lukaj, 5th 

Tavern has presented them 
with diners continuou 
sly 
crowding the eatery from 
wall to wall with come-back 
regularity. 
Of course, being across 
the street from Costco on 
Telegraph Road, Bloomfield 
Township, and the huge 
shopping mall next to it may 
have something to do with 
the crowds, but dining at 5th 
Tavern itself has much to do 
with the reason … Case in 
point, a former restaurant at 
the very same location had 
to close.
Another reason could be 
the relaxation that comes 
with such dining spacious-
ness … and the seemingly 
constant additions of want-
ed items to its menu that 
already has new selections 
like American Kobe Burgers 
made with Wagyu meat 
chargrilled on a brioche bun, 
black bean chipotle veg-
gie burger, zip burger with 
Havarti cheese, quinoa and 
kale salad, also with apples, 
mandarin oranges, grapes, 
chickpeas, sunflower seeds, 

scallions and feta, with or 
without chicken … Tuna tar-
tar, chicken marsala, mango 
mahi, 20-oz. bone-in ribeye 
with caramelized onions and 
mushrooms, steak au poivre 
and others … Eight steaks 
and chops that include chef’
s 
vegetable and choice of pota-
to, eight sea farin’
 dishes with 
potato or rice and vegetable, 
12 entrees with soup or salad, 
etc. … The stone-cooking 
sensation by the customer is 
still a much-wanted choice.
Seating is for 360 indoors 
with 10 surrounding tele-
vision sets … another 120 
people fit in the banquet 
room … Seven-day hours 
are Monday-Thursday, 
11-11, Friday, 11-midnight, 
Saturday, 10-midnight and 
Sunday, 10-10 … Its sump-
tuous brunch is two days, 
Saturday, 10-2 and Sunday, 
10-3.
The front doors at 5th 
Tavern are opening and clos-
ing many times more than 
ever before … Going into its 
sixth year, the odds are that 
future will surpass even the 

record amount it is having 
these days.
OLDIE BUT GOODIE 
… Two Jewish women were 
speaking about their sons, 
each of whom was in the 
state prison.
The first woman says, “Oy, 
my son has it so hard. He is 
locked away in maximum 
security. He never even 
speaks to anyone or sees the 
light of day. He has no exer-
cise, and he lives a horrible 
life.”
The second lady says, 
“Well, my son is in minimum 
security. He exercises every 
day. He spends time in the 
prison library, takes some 
classes and writes home each 
week.”
“Oy,” says the first woman. 
“You must get such wonder-
ful nachas (pleasure) from 
your son.”
CONGRATS … To Jeff 
Sharpe on his birthday … To 
Selma Steinhardt on her 40th 
birthday. 

Email dannyraskin2132@gmail.com.

Danny Raskin
Senior Columnist

Jerry and Louis Sanchez

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