Metro is all about that combination of bakery, café and restaurant in one big industrial space in Noord. As soon as you enter, you see and smell it: sourdough bread, focaccia and sweet baked goods from the in-house bakery determine the rhythm of the day here.
Metro was set up by the founder of restaurant Entrepot, and you can tell that the same down-to-earth focus on good produce has carried through here. No complicated fuss, but simple, accessible dishes using seasonal produce throughout the day. What comes out of the bakery is immediately seen on the table: bread at breakfast, focaccia at lunch, pasta as a snack with a glass of wine.
During the day, one half of the business slides in for coffee with something from the display case, while on the other side the first lunch tables are already set. The bar runs through the space like a backbone; there espresso, glass of natural wine and something stronger quietly alternate. The all-day idea here is not marketing talk, but really how the place is used: from early risers to late eaters, everyone falls in somewhere.
During the day, one half of the business slides in for coffee with something from the display case, while on the other side the first lunch tables are already being set.
With that, Metro feels like a logical next step in the development of North: a place where you're just as likely to spend a morning at your laptop as a long evening with friends, as long as there's something out of the oven and something in the glass.