Hello!
I founded MetroFresh with the notion that fresh, healthy, and creative food should not be out of reach for the casual diner. With a daily menu of soups, salads, sandwiches, breakfast entrees, “after work” small plates (Uptown), and dinner entrees (Midtown,) MetroFresh uses the freshest in-season ingredients, locally grown and organic when possible, to build unexpected flavor combinations you don’t often find at a fast-casual cafe.
Our mission has always been to create a friendly “oasis” where our guests can take a break from their hectic lives. “People are going to come for delicious, healthy food,” I told my original crew in 2005, “but they’ll come back because they had a great experience.”
You’ll notice alongside the “FOOD” below, a column of “THOUGHTS.” I’ve always believed MetroFresh would succeed because it’s a personal and communal experience. That very first day when I sent out a mass email with our daily menu, I began with a personal story about how I loved fresh food as a child. I’ve started every day after that writing down these random thoughts about food, family, and life. I’ve been doing it as a daily ritual for so many years I figure, why stop now? I hope you enjoy it. And I hope you come see us.
Mitchell Anderson, Founder and Creative Chef
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- M: Meat
- Gf: Gluten-Free
- D: Dairy
- Vn: Vegan
- Vg: Vegetarian
- F: Fish
- E: Egg
- N: Nuts
Thought
by Mitchell
Turns out we were the only game in midtown yesterday! Apparently when people Googled where to eat yesterday morning in Midtown Atlanta, we were among the very few that came up. It was amazing to see so many people enjoying the Peachtree Road Race, which hadn't been run all it's full on glory since 2019. Which sort of meant, we had no idea what to expect. I remember last year when we opened on the third of July, one of the two race days, we had a trickle of guests. Yesterday was more like a tsunami!
So that's great and all. But if you remember the episode of I LOVE LUCY when Lucy and Ethel got jobs in the chocolate factory and the conveyor belt kept going faster and faster, that's a little like how it was for me at the griddle around 10:15. We opened at 7am and for the first hour and a half, it was a nice steady stream. One ticket every few minutes. I'd complete an order then start on the next. Slowly I noticed the tickets coming out faster, then faster still, and faster and faster and faster... Oy! There was just so much I could do, so I tried as best as I could to methodically put out the food. It's a great life lesson. You can only do what's in front of you and you can't look at the future. So ticket by ticket, we got it done! It's just, at one point I think I had about 40 tickets in the queue. What a day! Everyone was great and worked their patooties off serving the peeps. Soledad was my hero since in between washing plates and silverware, she was able to scramble more eggs, chopped more chicken and make more pancake mix.
That was so yesterday, though. We're on to another one. Come see us. We'll be open in both stores as usual. Hope y'all had a great Fourth of July.