Restaurants in Hallandale Beach

Nestled inside the Newport Beachside Resort, Kitchen 305 serves sea-inspired dishes in a modern dining room with linen-draped tables illuminated by vibrant blue lights. Chef Julius Brown, who brings talents perfected at Starwood Hotels & Resorts, directs the creative plating of seafood dishes including bluefin tuna, crab cakes, and steamed salmon. Turf options include chicken, rack of lamb, and skirt steak. On select evenings, a resident DJ pumps out tunes from the 80s, 90s and present day, and a master chef bestows expert sushi-making techniques during on-site culinary classes.

Pizza Volante's meat-and-cheese disks are fired to Roman-style crispy perfection in a wood-burning oven. The signature Volante pie is a margherita, stacked with prosciutto di parma and sun-dried tomatoes ($16). Dissolve the sea's ionic bonds with a Sicilian-sea-salted circle (marinara, garlic, anchovies, Sicilian sea salt, $12) or touch multiple types of cheese on the Bianca, crafted with fontina, chenel goat cheese, arugula, thyme, local cow's milk mozzarella, and bufala milk mozzarella ($15). As a mozzarella bar, Volante champions the soft, milky ropes and curdles; choose a type of mozzarella to try (Burrata D.O.P costs $15, locally made cow's milk varieties cost $8) and accompany it with zucchini salad, Florida tomatoes, olives, capers, organic arugula, and more. Salads, sandwiches, paninis, and a weekly changing selection of pasta (try gnocchi Bolognese for $12 on Sundays) round out Pizza Volante's menu into a melty cheese wheel rolling down a marinara hill and leaving rich cheese deposits in its wake.

Metro Bistro's executive chef artfully assembles a menu that focuses on the simplicity and seasonality of local, organic ingredients. Beef, such as the house-smoked NY strip carpaccio ($15), is organic and grass fed. Metro Bistro's chickpea cakes pile-drive organic avocado, butter beans, red onions, and tomatoes before delivering the knockout blow of organic lemon vinaigrette ($15). Grilled, wild-caught mahi swims in shaved organic fennel and organic watercress with organic cilantro drizzle ($17). A tongue-tickling selection of wine and organic beers slakes the thirst of parched humans and experimenting flamingoes.

For more than three decades, Cypress Nook Restaurant's owners Isle Wenttengel and Michael Gerike haven't changed much. Adhering to old-world traditions with a menu of rustic Bavarian cuisine, they still maintain their restaurant inside an old stucco house, exemplifying the kind of cozy familiarity apparent everywhere, from lacey curtains to plates of frankfurters. During evenings, the dinner menu catalogs handcrafted spaetzle, knockwurst with German potato salad and kraut, and slices of homemade key lime pie.

At Pita Paradise Cafe, pitas dress as they please in albacore tuna, fresh lamb, or a warm slathering of hummus, before leaping into guests' mouths. After sopping up the last of the tabbouleh, guests can enjoy flavored hookah smoke or chew on subtly mint-flavored tablecloths.

On Friday and Saturday evenings, the cascading notes of a live piano drift amid the Oak Room Restaurant's woodwork, interweaving with the flickers of candlelight to complete a distinctly romantic ambiance. Yet this live music isn't the only way the restaurant keeps things fresh. Select Wednesdays and Fridays trade their menu for the grilled meats and empanadas rooted in traditional Argentinean fare. Chefs shake up the cuisine yet again on Tuesdays' Napolitano nights, dishing out family-style Italian dinners to keep kids and parents in harmony. One of four restaurants at the Inverrary vacation resort, the Oak Room's fusion of classic gourmet and southern Florida regional delicacies has been known to lure hungry guests away from their golf tournaments and keep them from trying to eat the massage tables.