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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Open until 7:30pm Thursday
- M: Meat
- Gf: Gluten-Free
- D: Dairy
- Vn: Vegan
- Vg: Vegetarian
- F: Fish
- E: Egg
- N: Nuts
Thought
by Mitchell
It's the Summer Solstice and we're celebrating tonight with our annual Lobster Fest. We have lots of reservations and it's going to be an amazing night. If you didn't make a reservation, there is a chance by the end of the night I may have a few lobsters left. It's all a guessing game, of course, figuring out the formula of how many lobster vs. steak vs. vegetarian orders. So if you walk in and want a lobster dinner, it'll have to be on the back end of the evening - after 7:30. You can always give us a call around 7pm and I'll be able to do the math and let you know if we'll have extra.
We will be open tonight for take out from the deli case. So if you're just stopping by for a soup or salad and want to take it home, please feel free.
In other news, I now have THREE very expensive proposals to replace the HVAC unit on the bar side of the cafe. Apparently there is some sensor/switch deep inside the bowels of the unit, which lives in the ceiling above my walk-in fridge and is super hard to get to. It has been determined that it is impossible to fix and the whole thing has to be scrapped. It's a total bummer and I'm trying to get some help/guidance from the landlord. This process is taking forever! I am working on it though, and I hope to schedule the work in the next week or so. But in the meantime, we are trying to manage the A/C sparingly. If we don't run it all the time, it does work - until it freezes up and quits. So when we're super busy we can turn it on for a couple hours and it sort of cools us down from sauna-hot. Please be patient.
It's French Dip Friday! Come grab a French Dip Beef Sandwich. YUM.