5 Seasons Brewing

(404) 255-5911

5600 Roswell Rd NE
Atlanta, GA 30342 33.9059 -84.3787

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Years in business

Established in 2001

Price:

$$

Last updated 10.15.11

Category:

Restaurants, Brew Pubs, Brew Pubs, Brewers, Bars & Pubs, Wineries

Payment Methods:

American Express, Diners Club, Discover, Visa, MasterCard, Debit Card

Bar & Pub Special Features:

Notable Beer List

Restaurant Special Features:

Brunch, Bar Scene

Cuisine:

Traditional American

Smoking Permitted:

At the bar

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What People Are Saying About 5 Seasons Brewing

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The Scene – Five Seasons is more than a place to knock back beer. An elegant interior beckons with softly lit tables and an expansive dining area. The brewery, visible from the main bar and restaurant, adds a gilded note of coppery class to the swanky establishment. – – The Food – The menu, rightfully fawned over by patrons, includes delectable cuisine with dishes from Japan, Germany and America. The grilled pizza tops the list. If you're a daring sort, try the ostrich steak, or satisfy a seafood hankering with the spicy scallops. The local brewery has 13 beers on tap.…

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What to Drink:
Try the Munich Helles if you like light beer. If you prefer more flavor, go for the Nut Brown Ale with its distinctive earthy smell and little bitterness.
Where to Sit:
Relax in the laid-back downstairs bar, which has darts and pool tables.
Know Before You Go:
The kitchen closes at 10pm during the week and at 11pm on weekends, but beer lovers can stick around until the wee hours of the morning.
ambiance
100.0% positive
  1. “really enjoyed the atmosphere, since it doesn't have the midtown attitude and is not as morbid as Alpharetta.”
  2. “Five Seasns has a great location in the Prado Shopping Center just inside 285 on Roswell Road.”
  3. “Nice wood decor inside with a big open dining room.”
  4. “The atmosphere was wonderful but possibly a bit noisy (not bad for a bar, but not the kind of place I would want to have a meeting or a date with my wife).”
drinks
79.8199987411499% positive
  1. “Good line of brewed beers, 7 Sisters beer is awesome.”
  2. “The food is amazing and the selection of beer is impressive.”
  3. “The restaurant is big, with a bar and pool hall area separate from the main area, which it a haven for the smoker who wants to sneak a cigarette and not have to leave the premises while enjoying a beer.”
  4. “They serve the BEST beer in town - hands down.”
  5. “Handcrafted beers are the best in town and the menu is very diverse.”
  6. “The portions were very generous but even with my rich Copperhead ESB beer it was not able to cut the sauce/pepper on my filet.”
  7. “Just tapped at 5:55pm on Thursday 1/17/2008 (standard protocol there for new beers), it was a good tasting expresso imperial stout, but I wouldn't rate it as high as some others have.”
  8. “The atmosphere was wonderful but possibly a bit noisy (not bad for a bar, but not the kind of place I would want to have a meeting or a date with my wife).”
  9. “This place has great beer, but the food, as far as I can tell, isn't that great.”
  10. “And their coffee is the BEST.”
  11. “Good food at a decent value, their beer is okay and overpriced”
  12. “They craft fantastic beers and the food has always been delicious.”
  13. “best brewed beer and great food to match”
  14. “Their food was good and a decent value, but their wine selection was on the bottom of the totem pole (cheap quality wine for an expensive buck!)”
  15. “Great beer, wonderful service, but needed a snorkel for the sauces.”
  16. “Easily the best beer in Atlanta.”
  17. “The beer here is ridiculous.”
  18. “Grudging service, middling beers and expensive food”
  19. “and their beer was overpriced for what you get in my opinion.”
food quality
75.48999786376953% positive
  1. “Beer and pizza should always be this good”
  2. “Service is a little slow, but food is always FRESH.”
  3. “BUT, I would have rather had a great meal!”
  4. “The pizzas are wonderful.”
  5. “best brewed beer and great food to match”
  6. “Hubby, who is not a big fan of pasta or garlic, thoroughly enjoyed his salmon and asparagus angel hair pasta with creamy garlic sauce.”
  7. “The food is amazing and the selection of beer is impressive.”
  8. “and I don't like their sandwich, either.”
  9. “The lamb tenderloin was very tender and the demiglaze was perfect.”
  10. “Beers not to style, grudging service and expensive food”
  11. “If you like your food with no spices, no salt, no pepper, nothing.”
  12. “Their food was good and a decent value, but their wine selection was on the bottom of the totem pole (cheap quality wine for an expensive buck!)”
  13. “Grudging service, middling beers and expensive food”
  14. “The grilled rice ball was still very good and just as impressive as I remember.”
  15. “Great service but bad food.”
  16. “He gushed that the garlic sauce had just the perfect combination of flavors.”
  17. “Good food”
  18. “ordered the quail appetizer, and I had about enough meat with all of the pieces to obtain a full bite.”
  19. “The portions were very generous but even with my rich Copperhead ESB beer it was not able to cut the sauce/pepper on my filet.”
  20. “Also ordered the grouper sandwich which is not impressive.”
  21. “Prices were reasonable, less than $10 for each dish.”
  22. “They were still great scallops as long as you avoided too much sauce.”
  23. “interesting pizzas”
  24. “Honestly, if you want amazing food go to Taco Bell.”
  25. “This place has great beer, but the food, as far as I can tell, isn't that great.”
  26. “Overall though, this out of the way brew pub has become one of my top 3 choices for an outstanding meal.”
  27. “My ahi tuna salad was delish.”
  28. “The food is outstanding, the menu can very well please pretty much anybody,from rib eye steaks, fish and chips or the suggested "pan seared red snapper with chives and a lemon zesty foam.”
  29. “Their pizzas really are quite good and they have some interesting combinations.”
  30. “The kids' food was cool and nothing spectacular.”
  31. “The all natural steaks are good, fried blue crab fingers.”
  32. “They craft fantastic beers and the food has always been delicious.”
  33. “Good food at a decent value, their beer is okay and overpriced”
  34. “Many other patrons complained of poor service as well which made the meal somewhat uncomfortable.”
menu variety
93.33000183105469% positive
  1. “The food is amazing and the selection of beer is impressive.”
  2. “Their food was good and a decent value, but their wine selection was on the bottom of the totem pole (cheap quality wine for an expensive buck!)”
  3. “Handcrafted beers are the best in town and the menu is very diverse.”
  4. “The food is outstanding, the menu can very well please pretty much anybody,from rib eye steaks, fish and chips or the suggested "pan seared red snapper with chives and a lemon zesty foam.”
  5. “Overall though, this out of the way brew pub has become one of my top 3 choices for an outstanding meal.”
service
61.11000061035156% positive
  1. “Anyways, this place was crowded and the bartender was nice and attentive, but go during the week and I guarantee you will get AMAZING service.”
  2. “Great service but bad food.”
  3. “Though I will add that the staff was nice, nothing wrong with the people working there.”
  4. “Great beer, wonderful service, but needed a snorkel for the sauces.”
  5. “Grudging service, middling beers and expensive food”
  6. “Many other patrons complained of poor service as well which made the meal somewhat uncomfortable.”
  7. “The wait staff were very friendly and knowledgeable, with some real character working there!”
  8. “Beers not to style, grudging service and expensive food”
  9. “told the manager that I would like a new waiter.”
value
52.3799991607666% positive
  1. “Grudging service, middling beers and expensive food”
  2. “The portions were very generous but even with my rich Copperhead ESB beer it was not able to cut the sauce/pepper on my filet.”
  3. “Their food was good and a decent value, but their wine selection was on the bottom of the totem pole (cheap quality wine for an expensive buck!)”
  4. “used to be a huge fan of The 5.”
  5. “and their beer was overpriced for what you get in my opinion.”
  6. “Good food at a decent value, their beer is okay and overpriced”
  7. “Beers not to style, grudging service and expensive food”
wait time
75.0% positive
  1. “Service is a little slow, but food is always FRESH.”
  2. “They were still great scallops as long as you avoided too much sauce.”
1 Star Rating: Poor

02/09/12

This was horrible

by suanjones

after going here a year ago and enjoying the great pizza and beer, what a disappointment to go tonight and feel like I got leftovers from the night before. It was horrible. Our waitress was great but my pizza was nothing but a warmed over flatbread. Sandwiches were tiny, pimiento cheese appetizer was horrible and fish taco's were warmed over. What happened to our neighborhood brewery ! We won't go back...I'm going somewhere where the food is fresh and people care...

2 Star Rating: Below Average

06/12/11

Beer is the only attraction here

by Sunshine36616

We went to 5 Seasons Brewery because I had a gift certificate that I had to used before it expired. The setting is casual and fun. My husband had a beer, he enjoyed it. We got an appetizer, the pimento brulee with toast points. It tasted exactly like what you get in the deli at Kroger. For my entree I chose the Hash, poached egg over corned beef hash and hollandaise sauce. It was mediocre at best. My husband had a grilled portabello mushroom sandwich which he described as average. The hand cut french fries were very good.

The service was friendly, quick and good.

We went $2 over the gift card and after a full tip, we spent $8 out of pocket. While it was the best $8 dinner and beer we've had, we will not be returning for (seriously) over priced mediocre food.

1 Star Rating: Poor

01/23/11

Drink elsewhere; NOT a friendly bar

by Techy

We met here for Friday happy hour and this place really didn't want our business nor did they care too much about their service. We didn't plan to sit and eat and there is no place to stand and talk that you are not in the way of the staff. VERY poor layout for a bar and we didn't want to stay long enough to eat. (There is a ''cellar bar", but it's basically a smoking room)

The staff has dealt with this before and they put up with it when they weren't being borderline rude. The beer was not that great to put up with the snotty staff. The first and only visit for me.

1 Star Rating: Poor

01/02/11

Would have been good... if they hadn't run out of food!

by abianchi

Sandy Springs Location: Made reservations for a New Years Even dinner. My date and I were looking forward to treating ourselves to a great meal, as we don't do so very often. To our surprise the kitchen was literally out of everything we tried to order! Apparently they had run out of steak and lamb, which are the only meats other than chicken on their menu. On top of that, they ran out of certain beers (umm, isnt this a brewery??). Needless to say, my date ordered his 3rd choice and left hungry and I ordered a side salad and an appetizer and was hungry again by the time we left. The staff was great and probably horrified that they had to tell others that there was no food left (the restraunt was still busy at this time), but I could not believe a manager didn't have the guts to apologize in person. Very poor management and planning, will not be returning. Next time we will instead be going to the steak house next door. I would recommend the same if you want to actually eat.

1 Star Rating: Poor

10/17/10

Severe Food Poisoning

by dcam29

I ate at the 5 seasons brewery on Old Milton Pkwy in Alpharetta a couple weeks ago, and got severe food poisoning that was so bad I had to be hospitalized. I then filed a complaint with environmental health, who then started an active investigation on the restaurant. They sent someone out to perform a random sanitation check, and the resulting score was a 59, which goes without saying is very poor.

I am currently trying to settle the matter of my medical bills with the owner of the restaurant, who is taking a very reluctant stance on admitting fault, despite the overwhelming evidence. So, as I told the owner on the phone today, If they are reasonable, and do the right thing over the next month as my insurance company starts kicking back bills to me, then I will let sleeping dogs lie and let it go.

If not, then I will take things to the next level and put up gruesomely detailed write ups about my experience, complete with uploaded links to the PDF copy of the sanitation report. It's a real shame that businesses always want to take the "admit nothing, worry about the bottom line only" approach when it comes to situations like this, because word of mouth is highly viral, and there is no amount of PR that will erase the detrimental effects of bad word of mouth. Enough said.

The Details on 5 Seasons Brewing

Place Categories:

  • good food
  • best copperhead esb beer
  • amazing place
  • great service
  • somewhat uncomfortable meal
  • recommended highly
  • nice wait staff
  • perfect combination
  • wonderful atmosphere
  • just as impressive grilled rice ball
  • decent value
  • overpriced beer
  • nice bartender
  • not like grouper sandwich
  • huge fan
  • cool patio
  • love seas
  • awesome sisters beer
  • great pleasure
  • highly recommend sisters
  • good olives
  • like new waiter
  • expensive buck
  • very good calamari appetizer
  • quite good pizzas
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