The main dining area is spread over two rooms on the ground/street level. One room contains a large bar/counter where you can eat and drink, and a few tables, and the other room contains a more traditional full-service dining space. The restaurant has a rooftop lounge on the third floor (with a bar and table seating) that is open-air in nice weather (and temporarily enclosed and heated in the wintertime for private events only), and two few tiny tables on the sidewalk outside the main entrance door. The second floor contains venue space. Handicap-accessibility might be a bit dicey in this restaurant, which was originally two buildings located side-by-side that were joined into one space. Near our table, we could see a long electrical/extension cord laid along the carpet and taped into place, which seemed to be a bit of a safety-code violation.
Because we had arrived in the late morning, we had hoped to order from the lunch menu, but we were limited to just the breakfast options (we were told that we would have to wait 20 minutes if we wanted lunch, an amount of time that seemed negligible). We ordered a breakfast flatbread pizza called The Hangover, and an egg and seafood scramble that was served in a miniature iron skillet. We are not big breakfast eaters, but we loved the flatbread - delicious and plentiful - but the scramble was a little disappointing. The lunch and dinner menus sound much more interesting to us; had we been able to order from the lunch menu, we would have spent a lot more time and money there because some of the dishes sounded great (shark tacos, short rib tacos, crab rolls, charcuterie, flatbreads - and those were just the starters!). Service was acceptable, but not as attentive as we would have liked.
Although we probably would not return to Metropolitan Kitchen to dine indoors, we might try their rooftop deck for a drink, and we might try another restaurant owned by the same people - Tsunami or Lemongrass (or Bier House, when it opens).
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