Upscale Restaurant and Lounge. The goal of our business at Number 5 is to please all of you, our customers. The simplest way to do this is to provide you with the finest food, service and atmosphere possible. The way to insure that is to purchase the very best ingredients in the market, to hire and train the very best employees and to start each day with the attitude that yesterday is history...
The history of the Number 5 Restaurant began with its inception as Fire Station Number 5 back in 1897. For more than 75 years the Number 5 served the South Side of Binghamton, N.Y. With the new onslaught of fire station construction in the early 1970s, Engine House Number 5 became surplus property and was auctioned off. An Ithaca, N.Y., developer bought the property and began the transformation...