Cinko

Pour une 2e visite en 12 mois, je suis surpris d’avoir droit à autant de saveur avec une assiette aussi simple à 5 $. Le burger végé et ses frites sont fameux. Comme gâterie, le pouding aux pains au caramel était décadent. Pour jaser, le DJ live nous a donné du fil à retorde, mais ses choix musicaux étaient très bien. Le personnel est adorable.

Le Cinko fait partie de la famille des restaurant qui vendent tous leurs plats à 5 $. Ou 7 $ ou 9 $ si vous avez une faim de loup et que vous voulez rajouter du bacon par çi ou du guacamole par là.
Nous arrivons avec 2 amies a 19h50… Il y a 3 personnes devant nous. Le temps passé et la plupart des gens qui arrivent après nous (peut importe le nombre) passent avant nous… 1h plus tard, (oui oui 1h!) enfin une table nous est attribuée! Nous commandons de la bière et j’opte pour un burger classique. Tout est dit! Classique ni plus ni moins, les frites sont bonnes mais je reste sur ma faim!
Alors je craque!!! Un dessert pour le moins atypique! Les Ferrero Rocher frits! Un délice! Mais si vous faites attention à votre ligne oubliez ça!
Rien à redire sur le service pas mal efficace de notre sympathique serveur!
Je né suis pas sûre de vouloir y retourner. Je préfère, et de loin, l’Entrepôt sur Mont Royal!

Parfait pour étudiants!
Tout prêt de l’UQAM et des repas à 5 $! Bonne musique, ambiance jeune et branchée et la terrasse l’été des parfaite. Restaurent toujours rempli! Pour les ventres creux cependant, les petits extras peuvent s’accumuler facilement et la facture grimpe rapidement avec l’alcool.

Personnellement je suis abonnée a ce restaurant! J’y suis aller plusieurs fois et il y a des jours où le service étais exceptionnel et un jour ils ont pris 35 minutes a me servir un simple hamburger/​frite. (la cause: il avais un problème avec l’imprimante de la cuisine). Pour conclure si vous voulez seulement un plat pour accompagner votre verre, Cinko est la place!

Hot dog & macaroni, pourquoi pas ?
Fish&ship + boeuf: miaam
2 plats, 2 délice buccales. Totalement abordable et dj merveilleux. Wow

Nothing like having a waitress hold a front door door closed, not letting you into a restaurant on the coldest day of the year because she doesn’t want «a wind» entering the dining area. I’ve had a lot of strange dining experiences but a waitress holding the front door shut on a paying customer? Very odd indeed — and then she has the nerve to give me attitude when I complain! Great restaurant, TERRIBLE employee to have greeting customers.

Love to come here with my friends whenever we’re broke. They offer few varieties of food at $ 5. I usually order their portuguese chicken, salmon salad, and sweet potatoes poutine and they are delicious for the price. Atmosphere is nice and fun! :) Plus, waiters are usually friendly and fast. Although, the portion may be small for some people, you can add extra portion for a few dollar which is great!

J’ai découvert le Cinko seulement mardi soir après une séance ciné. J’ai tout de suite aimé l’ambiance. La carte est attractive, le service efficace et rapide. J’ai opté pour le burger végétarien supplément fromage de chèvre, très bon.
Comme tous les plats sont à 5 $ la facture n’est pas très élevée, idéal pour les petits budgets :)

$ 5 (CA) for nearly everything?!? (NOTE: This does not include drinks) I had to check this out.
The atmosphere is fun and hip. Since I was solo I sat at the bar. Do this. The bartenders are fast, friendly and great people. (The servers with tables seemed over-​worked. Poor things!)
I had a burger and upgraded to sweet potato poutine. Do this. It’s worth it. Since everything was such a bargain — I treated myself to the bread pudding. WOWsers! It was tummy-​stuffing good. I almost licked the plate.
Check it out. The low prices are not indicative of low quality. You’ll get a great meal and enjoy some fun people watching.

J’adore le Cinko!
Il y a plein de choix de plats, vraiment pas chers (5 $ de base, et on peut rajouter des ingrédients pour 1, 2 ou 3 $)
L’alcool n’est pas si cher, il y a des verres de vin pour 6 – 7 $ et du cidre pour 4 $ le grand verre
Il y a toujours du monde et de l’ambiance
Souvent, il faut faire le line up (quand on est 2, c’est pas si long mais 3 ou + ça peut etre assez long l’attente… genre 20mn et +…)
La musique est assez forte, surtout dans la salle dans laquelle on entre (ça me parait moins fort dans l’autre salle, en haut)
Serveurs très sympas et polis
Je recommande vivement! Super expérience pour pas cher!

Oh my gosh!
The food is absolutely delicious and it’s so fun for only $ 5 a meal, you can get two things and keep your taste buds happy and be full! The portions are decent and the taste is great. I love the variety, some may say it’s not much variety, but each dish is so different, you have to be able to find something.
Enjoyed a great meal of Portuguese chicken and Fish Tacos with a glass of champagne :)
Vegetarian friendly*
Fun environment for younger crowd and fun, up to date, music.

I wanted to like this place. I ordered the chicken entrée and it was literally like 2
Bites. 2 pretty good tasty bites. If you’re going to serve it as a tapas use a smaller plate. I know it’s supposed to be cheap eats but presentation still matters!

What an awesome place. For the price you can’t go wrong. I had 2 items off the menu for my girlfriend and I and I felt like I needed to order more of something just to bump up the bill. So we did. She ordered a mojito and I ordered a chai tea. It doubled the bill and I was cool with that and it felt more right…(I know… poor English)
I would definitely hit up this place again for sure!!!

This place has it figured out! As the name implies, each dish runs for $ 5, with options to upgrade to larger, more spectacular meals. They keep the portions small to make this possible, and by piling on their tasty matchstick fries.
That said, I mostly return so often because you can get good, but not excellent, food for cheap. Their sausage and mac & cheese is great, but slightly underseasoned and very tricky to eat. You might have the best luck ordering a few different things to share. They have tons of options, and they’re very vegetarian-​friendly.

Food was amazing. Service was fantastic. The bartender was super friendly. The DJ was really good. The hostess was efficient. I enjoyed myself. The atmosphere is energetic. GREAT place.

J’ai rétiré une étoile pour le service! Mais je vais donner une deuxième chace! La bouffe est bonne et n’est pas cher!

J’étais curieuse d’essayer un resto m’offrant des assiettes à 5,00 $ alors j’ai testé.
Dès qu’il fait froid dehors, il fait également froid en dedans. Je n’ose pas imaginer en plein janvier. Le problème c’est l’entrée non fermée alors dès que la porte s’ouvre, on gèle. Côté ambiance et bien c’est chouette, style loud bar avec disque vinyle en guise de napperon, belle idée. La musique est quand même forte ceci dit. Ce qui augmente le volume des conversations et le niveau sonore y est très élevé.
Côté menu, il est plutôt varié de style snack de resto-​bar et du végé se trouve dans les choix. J’ai essayé le saumon de l’Atlantique au pesto accompagné de riz: très bon, mais nécessite une 2e assiette puisque le morceau de saumon faisait 6 bouchées. J’ai pris aussi le sandwich végé au tofu grillé avec frites: ordinaire voir médiocre, aucun plaisir en bouche, frites mollasses et tièdes. J’y retournerai probablement pour essayer d’autres plats, à une heure de moindre affluence lorsque moins de bruits et en demandant une table au fond du resto, loin de la porte d’entrée.
Mon verdict: correct sans plus, pour le moment.

I must say I’m not a fan of crowded restaurants with loud music, however, this place is packed with university students. The service is okay, nothing to complain about or to compliment. The food is probably the best thing about this place, I really liked my tacos and the burger was good. The price is another great thing about this place, if you’re on a budget and not a big drinker, then you should like their $ 5 dollar menu. Overall, it was an okay experience, but I probably won’t go there on Friday night again due to the long waiting lines.

Gosh I am so full and so blissfully spaced out now after all the good food and drinks, and phunky music I wanna just rate this and attach my comments from my Instagram

Long overdue review!
Went there because I was on a budget, and wanted to go on a date. So i Unilocaled a cheap spot and Cinko came up! Why not try it? Okay so there was a line up, and it was raining, not fun to be waiting in line for what seemed an eternity, but it was only 15mns. I guess on a Saturday afternoon that’s not long at all!
The place it self is quite small, but I didn’t expect much for a 5 $ din din. We sat in the back very close to a nice couple. mind you the place is very small. The menu had different things which is really good for indecisive people like me! I thought everything was 5 $ but the more you add things the price will either go up to a 1 $-4 $. Cool thing is that they had free refills on fountain drinks! That’s a total plus in my books.
I ordered a Burger Surf and Turf (beef patty and I believe 2 Panko fried shrimps) 5 $ with a side salad instead of fries, my boyfriend had
Burger classique with a poutine instead of fries which came to 7.50 $, his fountain drink was 3 $.
It took forever to get our food, but since im a chatterbox I was able to use my talent to kill time! The waitress was nice, and gave us our refills fast enough.
The food tasted good nothing to go crazy about but it was good and the atmosphere was chill. The place mats are old vinyls I dig it!
Since I never order desert I decided to go for the fried hazelnut chocolate donuts. I don’t recall the exact name. Ohhhhh it tasted like heaven! There was a mint mousse which I wasn’t too fond of it. Total was about 25 $
Yes this place is a must go if you are on a budget and just wanna go to a decent place with an inviting atmosphere! I suggest ordering 2 things if you have a big appetite as the portions are small.
I will definitely go back!

Love the concept here. I love trying a bit of everything so small $ 5 portions is perfect for me. The portions are large enough that 1 – 2 of anything will fill you and a small dessert shared with friends is the best way to end it off.
On a side note: The wait staff here is extremely attractive. I would come again just to see that eye candy.

This place needs to exist in every city in the world. $ 5 Canadian for everything, which in US dollars is like free. Add on a bit more depending on what you want (ie fries make the meals $ 6, add something else makes it $ 7 etc) but we filled up for real cheap. Quality food. Sandwiches are pre made so they said they can’t take special requests but your standards shouldn’t be that high as a human being anyway.

C’est 5 $, la nourriture est super bonne. Il faut prendre en considération le prix, je le répète! Possibilité de manger comme un roi pour 15 $. Meilleur endroit pour se restaurer entre potes! Regardez les photos elles parlent toute seule!

Excelent value for money.
Great service, good food and nice ambiance.
We ordered a hamburger, a salad and, a tempura. We liked all three dishes.
The food took a while but they warned us as we sitted that the kitchen was slow.

3 Étoiles et demi!
Meilleur que L’Entrepôt.
Concept similaire. Choix semblables, mais mieux exécuter.

1ère fois: service super lent +1h pour avoir son plat. Le couple à côté à commandé en même temps que nous et a finit son plat alors qu’on avait pas encore reçu les notre. Je né conseille pas de prendre les salade pour 5 $ sauf pour les petites faim. Très déçue des salade.
2ème fois: pain ciabatta tofu: service encore une fois très long, le plat un peu meilleur.
NE SURTOUT PAS Y ALLER EN HEURE DE POINTE

3 stars and a half ! The concept is really good! Les portions sont parfaites afin de pouvoir essayer plus qu’un plat. Je teiuve juste qu’il manqué une explosion de saveurs quand on prend une bouchée, mais c’est vraiment pas mauvais! Essayez le tacos antillais !

I went here attracted by the rumour that all their dishes are served at 5 $!!!
With the atmosphere of the place, i was not disappointed. Not sure what the theme is but its funky, hip, and cool!
With the menu, it is true that their dishes are offered for 5 $, however usually portion isnt that big. Well, its adequate for 5 $! You can choose add ons and that will augment the price. They also have all you can drink fountain drinks for 3 $ i believe.
The drinks are NOT 5 $ however. I didn’t order any drinks so i cannot comment on that.
I ordered the tacos (pretty good, has rice in it, unusual but pleasant flavour), the sweet potato poutine (SO GOOD, hope the size could be a bit bigger tho), and salmon salad (this was the miss of today’s order. Although salad was fresh and dressing was ok, salmon was way way way too salty. So unless you reaaaally like eating salty, i would not recommend it.)
Service was quick and pretty good.
Overall, pleasant experience, i want to try l’entrepôt next time to see which place i prefer, but I prob will come back to try their burgers next time!

Je suis allée plusieurs fois au Cinko et j’ai été déçue à chaque fois.
La 1ère fois, le service était extrêmement lent et confus (ça s’est amélioré depuis).
Par la suite, les portions étaient souvent décevantes. Les assiettes sont trompeuses. La poutine au chorizo (qui n’est plus sur le menu) était garnie de seulement 3 minuscules morceaux de chorizo…
Les linguine bacon et ciboulette manquent de saveurs.
Toutefois, le taco de fish and chips était bon.
Bref, je vous conseille plutôt le restaurant L’entrepôt qui a le même concept, est meilleur et plus généreux!

Wanted to give this place a 3.5 (if rating just the food), but the service was great and they have really nice décor as well, so I rounded up.
At five dollars an entrée (hence the name), this place is a steal, and definitely a good option when looking for good but cheap food.
I had the Portuguese chicken, which came with a side of either salad or fries. It was pretty good, and beautifully presented, but the bottom of my chicken was kind of charred):
I also had the bread pudding which was pretty tasty. I’ve never had bread pudding before, so I can’t compare but I thought the bread pudding was a bit hard. Still, the sauce was good.
Will probably come back to check out their other selections!

Great food for 5 $ especially when compared to the McDonald’s and Subway close by.
I visited twice in under 24h.
The first time, it was Monday evening, at like 9:45. The place was packed but we were seated real fast. We had a braised beef poutine, a classic burger, and a red curry soup.
The braised beef poutine was tasty, but it didn’t contain much beef. I was told today that we could add more beef for 2 $ extra.
The classic burger contained good flavors. I could clearly taste the garlicky sauce, the homemade ketchup, the bacon, the american cheese. But the patty. It was burnt and dry as hell. It literally had a thick crust of cremated beef on the outside and dried out mince on the inside… like really really ‘well done’, except ‘well done’ beef = no good beef. Now, for all you food police out there, don’t hate: beef is supposed to be eaten medium rare. You only eat your steak well done when the meat is not fresh.
Anyway, the red curry was very average. Nothing particular, you can probably invest that 5 $ elsewhere… like on a cinko hot dog hahahaa…
So I just had the cinko hotdog today and well… it was good for the price. It’s basically an average tasting hot italian sausage on ciabatta bread, with a scoop of mac n cheese spread all over the plate. Oh, and there was raw beetroot on the bread. Eating it was a mess so if you’re there on a date, AVOID AT ALL COST! Otherwise, pig out like no one’s watching (everyone’s prolly too damn drunk to notice anyway).
I also happened to have tried the braised beef pappardelle. In one word: salty. Granted the portion was relatively small, but the density of salt in that little pot of pasta was too damn high. I wouldn’t take it again.
Hope this review helped you indecisive eaters choose: P

I dropped by Cinko last night with my husband and a friend of ours. The restaurant was jampacked and on the noisy side, with music playing so loud it was difficult to hold a meaningful conversation; definitely more a bar atmosphere than a restaurant.
The food at Cinko is cheap; as the name hints it, all the food items on the menu are $ 5 each. Furthermore, it’s possible add extras (cheese or jalapeño for example) to your plate for $ 1 to $ 2 more a piece. May it be noted that there are several vegetarian options on the menu, so that’s definitely a plus for veg people out there.
The food itself was very decent; not the most amazing food I’ve ever tasted but certainly good, especially for the price.
On the noteworthy side, Cinko uses vintage records place mats, quite a unique use of these artifacts! The décor was original too; lots of black and white seemingly hand-​drawn patterns and art on the walls, a design which can also be found on the bathroom sinks and even on the toilets themselves!
The main part of the Cinko experience I find regrettable is the loud music and the lack of space. Perhaps the formula of cramming as many people as possible in a locale and cranking up the volume works well in some bars to get the alcohol flowing, but it’s not so nice when you are hoping to eat a meal and catch your breath.
I don’t know if I will ever be back. I wish good fortune to the owners nonetheless. They have an interesting business in their hands and good waiters.

Attn all tourists: Flock here for reasonable food at reasonable prices.
It’s like the $ 5.00 store for food, and the food is decent.
Walking in the snow like a Whitewalker from the Game of Thrones I came across this place and decided to try it just to get out of the cold weather.
They serve their meals on a coaster that’s actually ahold LP record, and they have a good selection of $ 5.00 items.
Like the American I am, I had a bacon cheeseburger, and a side of their poutine fries.
All were decent and good.

I went to this place with my friends for the first time. Very good environment with TV’s and music. Styled place for a late night restaurant.
Their foods are very tasty, specially the salad. I ordered salad & Poulet Portugaise. The portion is too small (but only 5 $ each plat). You have to order 2~3 orders with a drink for a personal if you are really hungry.
So the bill can easily go up over 20 $ if you add some extra stuffs. I have to say the real price is $$
I suggest this place for after bar since they open until 4 AM if you are looking for snacks.
Also they don’t have takeout. Better order one at time to make sure no waste.

Tout est à 5 $ mais certains plats ont des portions pas grosses. Si la faim est là miser sur les poutines, burger et le dessert le pouding au pain, ça cale. Mon amie a mangé dans mon assiette car ses choix avaient donné place à une assiette quasi vide, et concernant les desserts «verrine» il y a une grande différence entre les photos et la réalité, la portion est minuscule… il y a des restos concept 5 $ à Montréal bien plus intéressants.

Difficile de trouver un meilleur rapport qualité/​prix !
Ce n’est pas de la grande cuisine, mais ça se laisse manger, c’est plutôt copieux et bien présenté.

Un resto où tout est à 5 $ (avant taxes), qui propose un menu varié, comment né pas aimer?
J’ai été surprise par la variété et la créativité du menu. Les portions sont petites, ce qui est normal pour le prix, donc prévoir un peu plus si vous avez un gros appétit.
La déco est «funky».
Seul point négatif, j’y suis allée à la 2e semaine de la rentrée, et ils n’étaient pas du tout prêts pour le retour des étudiants. Le service était désorganisé, on a pris notre commande 15 minutes après notre arrivée alors que toutes les tables autour (arrivées après nous) avaient déjà commander. La cuisine né fournissait pas les plats sortaient au compte goûte.
Bref, on y retourne mais pas avant un mois ou deux, question qu’ils s’adaptent à l’augmentation de la clientèle.

Belle place sur St-​Denis le concept est plus qu’ intéressant des plats variés tous a 5 $. Les portions sont tout de même raisonnable et il y a tout de même une bonne variété de plats. Les boissons et cocktails sont on peut plus dispendieux et il est possible d’acheter une bouteille de vin. La place est tres belles a l’intérieur comme a l’extérieur ou il y a une terasse qui longe la ruelle.
Mon amie a prix le poulet a la portugaise et moi g prix le hamburger les deux avons changer la frite pour une poutine au chorizo. La portion était petite 3 a 4 bouche au plus mais pour une portion d’accompagnement et le prix ça vaut largement la peine. La mousse au chocolat a été partagé à deux et le mojito framboise vaut le detour.
Je nirai plus au mcdo a coté ! Les 2 avons été satisfaite et avons mangé à notre faim.
Endroit à revisiter.

Je suis retourné au Cinko! Wow quel différence de la première fois! Nous avons commandé un plat de Tacos, une poutine et le hot-​dog avec macaronie au fromage. Le tout délicieux! Le service super rapide. Et ce n’est pas chère.
On aime quand on a une petite ou une grosse faim et qu’on veut éviter de manger au Mcdo avec les gens louches sur St-​Denis, ou qu’on est trop tanné de manger des sandwich au Vua, ou que notre budjet né nous permet pas d’aller manger aux restos de Sushi à volonté!!

Tous les plats sont à 5 $. Déjà, en soit, ca vaut le détour. Comble de bonheur un taco aufish and chips à 5 $, quoi d’autre pourrais-​je ajouter?
Excellent service, vraiment.