The 5 O’Clock Lounge

Awesome place! Super friendly staff and owners… one of the oldest bars in town, open since the end of prohibition!

My favorite dive bar! The bartenders are always great and the owner is a super nice guy! Love going there to drink after dinner on any night of the week!

This place is awesome. It’s a total dive bar when you walk in — which is great. However, to your total surprise, the patio is this incredible, updated area. They have a pool table in a room off the side.
The bartender is really nice AND they carry a 36 oz can of PBR. The largest can of beer I’ve ever seen.
This place is great.

One of favorite dives, nice patio area out back, cheap drinks, good music, bands play on some nights

It’s an excellent dive bar in that the alcohol is cheap, the limited snacks come in big bags (3 oz cheese curls are $ 0.75) and the tiny ladies room has never been out of toilet paper (though one of the two stalls currently lacks a lock). There’s a performance space off to one side, so there’s a 9:00 open mic comedy show every Monday night that starts between 9:30 and 10:00, so you’ve time to get a $ 2 Black Label and/​or a cheeseburger from the McDonald’s two blocks away. They also offer live music some Saturdays, but I’ve never been to one of those shows, so I can’t rate them.

Not just an ordinary bar. Basically a hipster type of bar with good music and dancing… It is such a different positive vibe compared to the rude people you will run into on W. 6^th… There was no hip hop or rap or r&b playing which makes me want to try this place out again… Definitely feel welcomed here :) great selection in craft beer and a shuffle board is available as well!

I stopped in here for the first time this past weekend and I honestly must say, I have never noticed this place. In all of my years in Lakewood, how could this place have hid it self from me all of this time? It was a 7 – 8 degree night as I walk up to the place, it was desolate just how I like my sub 0 nights.
Cool, chill starter bar if you are planning a night out.

It has been 10 years since my last visit. I decided to stop up at the Five O’Clock while attempting to kill time before the Capitol Theater’s midnight showing of The Warriors. Five O’Clock is a nice bar with all the original retro furnishings that I appreciate. It has a nice warm interior with a red hue. The curved bar is a sight to behold and the crescent booths are impressive. I don’t recall seeing any TV’s which is one of my favorite things for a bar to leave out of the mix. I don’t know why people fixate on a glowing screen when there are real life characters to engage with or observe. They have a decent beer selection as well. I hope that I can stay strong and not go with friends to W 25^th or any of the Animal Planet style watering holes where people try to assert dominance and lay claim to drunken prey. This is coming fresh off a Friday night where my friend should have DDT’d some jerk at Market Garden. Think I may need to reenact my weekend boycott of that clown show.

Great bands, great craft beer selection, and probably one of the cheapest places to drink in the area. I’ve been going there for about six years and love it. GREAT VIBES!

I’ve only been here a few times but I really like it. Super cheap and enjoyable. It’s like a dive but a little cleaner than most dives! Lots of space and friendly staff.

Great neighborhood spot, good bartenders, cheap prices, looks like and is a dive bar. No tvs but that’s what makes it fun is you actually have to talk to people, very rare in this day in age

Love this place! I have been going here for YEARS! The bartenders are cool & laid back and the owners are genuine and polite. I feel comfortable here at 5pm AND 2am!

I have never been treated worse. I went after work with a friend because it was within walking distance and I had been there once before. After one beer, we asked for a shot and our tabs. The bar tender said he didn’t have time to make any shots, it was too busy. We said ok then we’ll just leave, and he walked away and never brought our tabs. We asked again when he was cashing out the lady next to us, and he flipped out. He stormed back over, threw our cards at us and said I hope I never see you cunts again. My friend cried as we walked home. I have never been denied service because the bar tender is «too busy» and then been treated with such disrespect. I will never return to the Five O’Clock.

So I ventured into the Five O’Clock on a Saturday night on a date, not knowing what to expect. I had read some of the reviews on here, and it seemed like the kind of place I would like, so I was excited.
First of all, it was a special night because the Virginia Marti School was having a pirate themed fashion show, so all of the hipsters were out in full force. I liked the curvy booths set up against the wall, and they had little candles on them to create an «ambiance» of sorts.
However, I did find their prices a little too pricey. 6 bucks for a pitcher of PBR? I can go to a different bar in town and get the same thing for 4 dollars. They were busy, so the bartenders seemed a little too distracted to deliver prompt service.
I think I need to try this place out on a night that isn’t so crazy, and is a little more chill. I’ll go and report back!

Hands down the best bar in Lakewood. It may not be everyone’s cup of tea but if you’re into cheap drinks, great music that doesn’t drown out your conversations, friendly bartenders & an overall laid back atmosphere this is the place for you.
On almost every Friday & Saturday there is either a DJ playing mostly indie rock (w/​some classic/​punk mixed in) or live bands. There is rarely a cover charge for the live music. Sunday is import night, all bottles are $ 2.
They have a shuffle puck table (best bar game ever), foosball & 2 pool tables. Plenty of seating and a very large outdoor smoking patio w/​cornhole.

Conversations with weirdos, cheap beer, big round booths, giant patio, within walking distance of my apartment.
This is pretty much what it takes to make me re-​visit a bar. I have, and will continue to, no matter what.
The last time I was there someone played so much At the Drive-​In on the jukebox I thought I was transported back in time to 2000 when I’d wear studded belts constantly. Those were the days.

If you ask me, there isn’t a better way to spend a Sunday afternoon with your softball team than at the 5 O’Clock Bar — playing foosball, cornhole and drinking a few beers. If I remember correctly they had a pretty crazy deal on imported beers last time I visited. Fun place!

5 O’Clock will always stand in infamy. I am pretty sure the smoke in the air is still lingering from someone’s cig they puffed in 1977. I like to imagine her name was Cherry and she was wearing tight black jeans with silver zippers on the legs. Her permed, sticky Aqua-​Net hair pulled high onto her head with tendrils dripping. She sat at the corner stool waiting for her guy Dom to finish up in the restroom. They had a long night ahead of them. She was trying to keep him distracted to slow down his drinking by cigarettes and cleavage. Dom had helped more than one dump earn the title of punch palace after too much to drink.
Ah, the 5 O’Clock. I don’t care how many creepy men are hanging around the bar, I love this place.

Like the others, I write this review based on fond memories of what once was. And while it seems like nothing has changed, it also seems like everything has changed. In my mind it is Cleveland’s version of Cheers. In reality, it is now just a little worn down place on Detroit.

There is a portion of my life that I hold very dear but I can’t seem to remember very much of it. I place thanks and blame on the Five O’clock in Lakewood. I spent nearly all of my free time from age twenty one to twenty seven inside of its soft, welcoming embrace. I loved all of her: the cheap Pabst draught, the Big Buck Hunter game (RIP), and the local ripper dudes playing The Hellcopters, Dead Boys and all of the other good drinking music. I will not, however, stand up for what the bar is like now, my time with it has passed, but my last few visits have been low key with local weirdoes barely speaking over the televisions hanging over their beers.
I have walked there in the rain, the snow, and left tons of shows early just to walk through those ugly swinging doors. Wednesdays used to be out of control what with eighties night at the Chamber being right next door. But pretty much every night could turn into the best of black outs if you were smart enough to let it go down that way. And if you were looking to have relations with a stranger this was an easier (and cheaper) place to make that happen than any brothel in Nevada. I said it and a lot of people are still regretting it. The best.
Go inside the men’s room and use the urinal (guys and gals) because the carving of the initials TFA still reigns supreme. Go inside for whatever reason because this was the place for a time but other places took its place. Most of the original cast still works there, for better or worse, so you can make your memories as vague as I made mine. All in all, this place is a total winner but I can’t remember all the reasons why, and that’s the best reason why. You’re turn!