Review:
Located in the shopping center adjacent to Muvico Paradise in Davie, Bistro 555 is the perfect place for a date night: dinner and a movie.

It's a little more upscale than your average strip-mall restaurant without being fancy. It tends to be quiet in the early evening, but if you plan to arrive after 8 p.m., make reservations.

If you end up waiting, Bistro 555 has a nice bar area with a view of the open kitchen and wood-burning pizza oven, plus the restaurant has three flat-screen televisions.

The menu is a mix of Italian favorites, gourmet pizzas, seafood and grilled meats. Value-minded diners will appreciate that a salad (house or Caesar) is included with every entree and pasta.

It's an accommodating place. They'll do half portions of any dish for children, and were happy to oblige our group's requests to switch sauces and pastas on several dishes.

We tried and liked the pesto linguine with chicken (sun-dried tomatoes add a nice complement), shrimp diavalo (five good-sized shrimp and a sauce just spicy enough, if a little oily) and chicken breast stuffed with spinach, mozzarella and ham (all the heartier with our red-sauce substitution). Next time we'd skip the bland fried-calamari starter.

Bistro 555 is the kind of place where you can spend conservatively and have a nice dinner for well under $20 a person or splurge on more expensive specials. Either way, it's becoming a neighborhood favorite.

Source: THE MIAMI HERALD