Three friends and a dog sitting together in a cozy, dimly lit restaurant or bar decorated with string lights and neon signs. One person is holding a tan and white dog, others are smiling or relaxing, and there are colorful lights in the background.

Welcome to 5BAR, your new second home filled with friendly faces and good drinks.

Our drink philosophy

We drink to celebrate. We drink to connect with friends, old and new. We drink to discover. With each menu, we strive to share unique things, humorous metaphors, and comforting concepts. Giving you, your friends, and every one a reason to visit again, and again, and again…

Fresh-squeezed citrus, house made syrups, and local produce (when possible) all make an appearance in our cocktails.

When we make a cocktail we pay attention to the balance. All the elements should be present, but not over-powering. It’s a sort of dance. Anyone can do it at home, but like a puppet show, it’s always entertaining when someone else does it.

Our space philosophy

We like to think of 5BAR as a shared second house or living room. Our mission is to be a safe space for all to enjoy — so much so that when you leave you feel you’ve made this space yours too. In the front room, you'll find a chill, living-room-style bar with couches bellied right up to the counter. The back room hosts everything from karaoke and live shows to drag bingo. Outside, the patio offers lawn games and a relaxed atmosphere—and yes, we’re dog-friendly inside and outside! Our house corgi, Lady, is usually sniffing around saying hi.

We host lots of events and you can rent out part or all of the bar for any kind of public or private event you would like! We’ve hosted weddings, after parties, engagement parties, birthday parties, shows, music videos, and a variety of photoshoots. We love helping local non-profits and our goal is to be as community centric as possible.

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Or learn some more fun facts…

  • We think she’s the best bar dog around. Here are some facts about her!

    Birthday: 11/29/2020

    Breed: Pembroke corgi

    Origin of name: Levi waited nearly a month for this lovely creature to show its personality. With many customers offering ideas, slowly it became apparent that this cutie was in everyone’s hearts and she was a little Lady.

    Favorite customer: Woodchuck, it was the first person she saw as a puppy at 5BAR

    Favorite snack: bacon bits (please don’t feed her though!)

    Routine: Morning time is full of yawns, stretchies, back to bed while Levi gets ready, light meal, light walk, yawns, back to bed while Levi takes care of computer work over coffee. In the mid afternoon Lady might get a walk up to the Castle to catch up on more work for Levi, where she gets a nice nap on the big couch. Early evening its time for a big dinner, big walkie towards Buchel and a Peck then back. If its light outside she will likely give a few welcome ‘borks’ to customers with a light tail wag. Then its smooth sailing resting near a couch and begging for ice cubes from the bartenders until she falls asleep.

    Favorite other dog: TBD

  • It was an auto-text gone wrong. Levi texted an old drinking pal “When are we going to buy a divebar?” and the ‘dive-bar’ populated to five-bar. They spent the rest of that day floating the Sugar River and talking about a dive-bar that had great cocktails.

    The more they talked, the more the number 5 showed up. $5 would be a fine price for a nice rail spirit drink. There’s 5 senses: hearing, seeing, smelling, tasting, feeling. There are also 5 perceptions of flavor: sweet, sour, bitter, salty, umami. Then the big idea came, for rotating a menu each month with 5 different drinks around a centralized themed. Boom, 5BAR was on its way to becoming a real thing.

    That was summer 2017, the concept kept evolving till the soft opening in October 2020. The concept went through a few good ideas and many bad ideas. Ultimately landing on 5BAR being a comfy bar with a menu to touch all 5 senses, rotating cocktail menu that has 1 theme and 5 drinks.

  • The bar is supposed to feel familiar and cozy, like a place you’ve already been to. We also call the vibes ‘divebar-chic,’ which implies a more fancy and feminine ambiance.

Illustration of a hand holding chopsticks, with a citrus slice and a cocktail glass hanging from strings, along with a small bottle and a spoon hanging from strings.

ABOVE: Lady, 5BAR’s official mascot and bar dog, in her first photo at 5BAR

It was a bitterly cold February day in 2021 when she walked into the bar. Little snow flakes slowly melted from her nose. She didn’t know it then, but that bar would become her second home. And the people she would meet would turn into lifelong friends.