5 A's - Harvest

I LOVE visiting 5 A's Restaurant!!! The food is always beautifully put together, fresh and absolutely delicious! For years now, I have always had top notch customer service and my food has been right every single time I have ordered, it's up there! OUTSTANDING!!! Thank you for the high quality that you continue to give to our community year after year!

Man, I've been wanting to try this place out for *years* after seeing and hearing so many rave reviews. Finally got my chance over the weekend, and I have to say...I was disappointed. Maybe underwhelmed is a better word. I dunno. Currently, they're open for carryout only. Everyone is masked up and the restaurant is clean, which I appreciate. The bathroom is even blocked off, which I appreciated a little less, having stopped in at the tail end of a road trip. Wound up going across the street to the gas station to use the bathroom, but oh well, it's their restaurant. Service was good enough not effusively friendly or helpful, especially the younger folks actually preparing the food, but our dinner came out fast enough and no one was rude or anything. We ordered a gyro combo plate and a chicken gyro plate with some garlic hummus and baklava for dessert. Portion sizes are very ample and the pricing is good; it was a touch over $30 for piles and piles of food. Meals come with meat on a bed of white rice, a large portion of salad, and two small soft pita triangles and an extremely small container of plain hummus. I'm glad we got extra. The food itself was...okay. I think I got overhyped for this place and wound up feeling disappointed. The meat in the gyro combo plate was better seasoned and more flavorful. Not sure if it's lamb and beef or just beef, but regardless, it was the clear winner. Salads were okay and we liked the dressing provided. The plain hummus was pretty unremarkable; maybe not as smooth as we really like but still enjoyable. The bed of white rice really would've benefitted from some more seasoning or spices, though it was cooked well. The garlic hummus appetizer we got came with both soft pita and pita chips. Really wish you were allowed to choose because I'd pick soft pita only every time. The pita chips were hard and stale. The garlic hummus was waaaaay too garlicky for me personally and we had some buyers remorse there, lol. The baklava was solid enough, sticky honey goodness. The low point was definitely the chicken gyro meat, though. It had a really unpleasant, spongy, moist texture. If I were to give this place another try, I'd definitely get something else. I have to believe this place is almost universally beloved for a reason, though, so maybe I just got the wrong thing.

Surprised! The food was really good. The environment was very comfortable. It is a hole in the wall restaurant going north to 53. You order at the counter and the food is served in Styrofoam, but unlike that, this place was great. I want to go back.

DIES is THE GREAT FOOD I?ve seriously had never a better gyro and the rice is amazing. The owner is a great person 10/0 recommend

So I didn't get to eat there, but my car broke down and I managed to pull into their lot. The owner was so nice about it and even identified the problem as well as had recommendations to fix it. I will be frequenting this place. (My sister did eat there and is also a vegetarian like myself and said it was awesome) 5 star, 10 star