Under owner Nino Aidi, Five Palms Steak & Seafood aspired to be a wine and cigar bar, a nightclub and a Mediterranean restaurant.
It had a reputation for being spendy in a town not known for forking over $40 for the cheapest steak on the menu. But it was more likely the outsized ambition of owner Nino Aidi that led him to close his upscale fine-dining restaurant Five Palms Steak & Seafood in early September.
The 12,800-square-foot restaurant, perched on a hill at 3500 E. Sunrise Drive that was once home to Terra Cotta, had several concepts β a wine and cigar bar, nightclub and Mediterranean restaurant in addition to the upscale main restaurant β vying for customers attention. No reason was given for calling it quits after five years in business.
