Everything is perfect. Food is amazing! Service is very welcome. Environment is nice. I definitely want to go there again. Love this place
Amazing Find in Pensacola! My husband and I were in town and luckily we decided to give this place a try. Since it was a Sunday, they had live music which was a very pleasant surprise. The atmosphere was very lively and we were greeted by a very nice gentleman at the entrance. It was well worth the wait, because the food was excellent as well. I would highly recommend this restaurant, especially if you are looking for something different for a Sunday brunch.
We had just landed in Pensacola, on our way to Orange Beach, and needed a spot for dinner. My boyfriend is a big blues lover, so this seemed like the spot to try. We found parking easily in the back, and the inside of the café is really interesting with all the memorabilia to look at. We went full southern on our dinners with fried green tomatoes, cornbread, fried shrimp, and country fried steak. It was all so yummy and delicious! The servers were very friendly and efficient. Would highly recommend this restaurant!
Copper tables and ambiance was pleasing . This was the most fantastic thanksgiving dinner.
This downtown Pensacola soul food restaurant is nice and on the high end of most soul food restaurants. They have their own small parking lot next to the restaurant along with another one across the street. There is an outside covered patio for seating along with a spacious inside too, of course. The interior has a lot of character and was playing good blues music during my visit for lunch. During most evenings, they have live music along with a jazz brunch on Sundays. This restaurant combines a New Orleans bluesy vibe with down home southern cooking. I ordered Aunt Sara's southern fried chicken (3 pcs) with mashed potatoes and brown gravy along with green beans for $16.50. The food arrived quickly within 10 minutes and came with a cornbread roll. The chicken was the old fashioned southern fried cooked chicken that I love and isn't easy to find anymore due to the Nashville hot chicken craze. This bird was hot and juicy and satisfying. The mashed taters and brown gravy were homemade and tasted like it and the green beans were soft and flavorfully cooked with some bacon. It was a very good tasting meal and Grant, the waiter, did a professional job. 5 Sisters Blues Cafe is an excellent choice for a hearty meal in a nice and fun atmosphere. Come eat here! Prices here are reasonable.
GUMBO!!! was amazing. 3-cheese Grits, best I've had. Fried Pork chop was really good and the compliment of pineapple slaw made it that much better. The little blonde waitress, can't remember her name because I have CRS- Can't Remember Sh*t. She caught me in the parking lot because I forgot my glasses. She was geat at her job!! We will be back.
WOW! We went for restaurant week and will definitely be back. The chocolate cobbler, collard greens dip, and blueberry lemonade cocktail were the stars of the show. Minus one star as we were forgotten about after our entree and waited very very long for desserts and checks. The dessert was also wrong when it came out, after we had checked in on it twice. That said, maybe it was extra busy for restaurant week and the food was amazing so we'll certainly give it another try.
In my photo you see the Ox Tails. First time trying ox tails. I was scared. They were AMAZING!!! The macaroni on the side and corn bread was delicious with a little pepper. Yams very sweet. The fried green tomatoes, save yourself and do not order them. They have no flavor despite how they look . We also had drinks, they were ok, hope they get more craft makers. The catfish was amazing, it's just one piece however . The crab cakes amazing as well. Over all great experience LOVED IT. The manager was out cleaning tables and seating people. Great blues band on Sunday, Again most of the food was AMAZING the catfish and the ox tails along with the sides!! Can't wait to come back. Also great service!!
Pros: Very lovely, cozy little Southern joint. Feels very welcoming. And their patio was very spacious and had nice warmers. Service was great! Our waitress was very efficient and entertaining. Took care of our big party very well. Food was pretty good. A lot of good, varied choices. Cons: No real cons. The food didn't pop like it does at Southern places. I'm sure the new ownership probably has something to do with that. Tips: If you like chicken and waffles, don't get it here. It's not bad. It's just not unique enough to justify skipping over the other good-sounding items on the menu. Get the fried green tomatoes, though! Those were good.
I came home for a bit this past December to spend some time with my friends and family. I had to pick a couple places to have dinner at, and Five Sisters was one of my choices. I had come here about 15 years prior, and I remember it was really good. So I wanted to relive that and get some great Southern food, since there's not great Southern in the peninsula where I live now. I had heard that Five Sisters had recently got sold to a restaurant corporation that's currently swooping through Pensacola. So I was skeptical. I dove in head first and tried like four things. Five, if you count a bite of someone's oxtail. First of all, they got some brownie points for being able to accommodate me and my party of 12 on a busy weekend night. You just gotta call them and say you're ok with sitting outside, and you can probably get any sized party seated. That's nice. Can't say that about everywhere nowadays. So anyway, we ordered some apps. Fried Green Tomatoes (Sliced, green tomatoes with a crispy, crunchy coating, served with jalapeño ranch dressing) and Wings (Ten wings flash fried and tossed with choice of sauce: buffalo, BBQ or lemon pepper). The tomatoes were banging. Thinly sliced tomatoes with a delicate, well-seasoned breading, perfectly crispy. The ranch dressing wasn't particularly jalapeno-y, but it was nice. And the wings, they were interesting. I can't remember what flavor I got, because the pic I have shows them all on top of a mustard-y sauce and draped with jalapenos. Maybe it was a special that night. They were nice, though. A good crispy, a good amount of meat. I like putting things on my wing bites, like jalapenos, too. Good app. As for the entrees, I ordered the Chicken & Waffles (Fried chicken rests on top of a crisp waffle, and served with syrup). This was pretty good. I got my waffle first and my chicken came out about 10 minutes later. That's bizarre. But the chicken was hot and fresh. Pretty typical in terms of breading and seasoning. Waffle was fine. And the syrup came right out of the bottle, no maple here. I also got to try the Smokin' Blues Brisket Sandwich (Mesquite-rubbed, fourteen hour smoked brisket with sautéed onions, mushrooms and Swiss cheese, served on Texas toast). This was also pretty good. Overall, this place was good. Everything was hot and good and not of a bad quality. Authentic Southern food it is not anymore, but it was a nice place for a nice meal.