It’s incredibly hard to take good photos with a camera phone (even with an iPhone 4) in a restaurant at night. This was the best I could do, even with some tweaking in Aperture.
Bottom line: Five Spice is our new favorite Asian restaurant in Boulder. (This is very much in contrast to my last restaurant review.)
We’ve been hearing about Five Spice for a while, but due to its less-than-convenient location, we hadn’t checked it out. The food was great, the service was great, and, belying its shopping-center-and-next-to-Super-Cuts location, the ambience inside was nice.
We ordered mostly off the “secret” Chinese menu (which is also in English). We started off with some traditional American-Chinese fare—hot and sour soup and steamed dumplings. The dumplings were not hot, but the soup was great. For main entrées, I got mapo tofu, pictured here, and Susanne got basil eggplant. We ordered Xander a tropical fried rice, which was definitely one of the more interesting and flavorful fried rice dishes I’ve had.
We’re certainly going back—regularly! And they deliver! Five Spice is located on the north side of the shopping center that contains Safeway at the corner of 28th and Iris.
(Photo via my Flickr)
