Patti’s Bistro

Excellent food awesome waitstaff restaurant is underwhelming from the outside (strip mall) bot warm and inviting inside
The fish is fresh the German food passed my native German wife’s taste with 5 stars
A new favorite for us — thanks to the local fishing charter captain for the recommendation !!

My girlfriend and I ate here last evening for her birthday. She had the roast chicken special — we had wanted Lobster for this special occasion, but apparently, they don’t stock lobster during the week. I had the herb-​crusted tilapia.
When my dish arrived, it had rice with green beans and carrots. The vegetables were outstanding. The fish was undercooked — very wet. I asked it to be sent back and cooked thoroughly. When it came back, there was no noticeable difference between the dish I received after I requested it be cooked thoroughly and the dish I initially was given. My biggest complaint with far too many restaurants in Florida is they don’t know how to cook fish — especially tilapia and grouper. These are flaky fish and need to be cooked thoroughly — so the meat flakes. Too many restaurants, and Patti’s is one of them, cook the fish so that the inside is wet. Not sure who they’re catering to — perhaps the snowbirds who are here only 6 months a year — but those of us who know how seafood should be prepared resent wet fish. If I wanted sushi, I’d go to a sushi restaurant. I’m very disappointed in the dish I received. Patti’s is not an inexpensive restaurant, so I left knowing I had overpaid for a bad meal.
In fairness, I had tried other non-​seafood dishes at Patti’s and these were marvelous. If we return, I won’t order the seafood…

Patty’s used to be one of my favorites. No more. Stale bread. Sloppy preparation & presentation. Very disappointed. I won’t be going back.

After 18 years in Micco, Patti’s owned and operated Bistro — it is actually quite continental and understated, quiet — has been on US1 for almost five years.
Patti is good-​spirited she and her staff know their stuff. I think she said that Mr. Patti is in the kitchen.
Four of us shared escargot en croute — delicious — and a sold quality and quantity of dark bruschetta.
Grace and I had the German sampler for two. I not an expert on schnitzels and weiners but they were all (6 types?) delicious and more than ample; four could have shared, including spaetzle and rottkohl. Dinner came with salad or soup (FANTASTIC sweet potato/​spicy sausage bowl) and dessert (light chocolate sponge cake with praline sauce, or a light appel-​strudel with cider sauce — both super) and coffee. We took home several little separate doggy boxes.
Our guests (a pair of fun, unfussy lady Brits) were very pleased by their herb-​crusted tilapia and lightly breaded chicken plates with very fresh green beans and pilaf or mashed potatoes.
I’m just a little bit biased because this was an easy meal for a memorable date anniversary, and because this sweet little place is right around the corner from where we live.
$$-$$$, excellent value.
We’ll be back; glad we finally checked it out. Reservations might not have been necessary tonight, but I’ve seen the lot full so I recommend it.