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2032 Main St. Dallas, TX 75201

214-741-2233

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Best Reason To Live Downtown
Award Winner 2009

2032 Main St. Dallas TX 75201

Cuisine(s): Eclectic

Hours: Mon-Fri 7:30am-5pm

Price: $ $
Payment Types: MasterCard, Visa, American Express, Discover, cash

Attire: Casual

Features: Smoking, Patio/Sidewalk Dining, Takeout, Private Party, Order Online
Serving: Breakfast, Lunch

Reservations: Not Accepted

Parking: Lot Available

Description

This clean space with a simple menu offering sandwiches, bagels and croissants plus coffee drinks and Italian sodas serves up the kind of fleeting food downtown Dallas craves.

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2009 | Best Reason To Live Downtown

It's a testament to the obsessive persistence of owner Michael Vouras that he could plant his culinary flag on the iffy eastern landscape of downtown Dallas nearly nine years ago and grow his small mom and pop (and grandma) shop into a destination restaurant for so many downtown lunchers. Then again, the food didn't hurt either. Vouras dishes out family recipes that once graced the tables of the high-end Chateaubriand (1958-1982). Wednesday is reserved for crab cakes, and you'd best come... More »
2005 | Best Soup

Never pit a cooking mom vs. a canned good. There's no point. Especially when it comes to split pea soup. Bordering on stew, it's a tough soup to get right (not too salty, not too chunky) and it'll never be right if it comes from a can. Mom will always win. Christine Vouras proves this with a hearty, savory concoction that sticks to your ribs in a way that somehow feels healthy. It may be the fresh ingredients she uses each day to prepare her two or three soup selections for the Main Street... More »
2004 | Best Breakfast Sandwich

Give us no doughnuts, bagels or bear claws. It ain't breakfast without at least one chicken ovum. We prefer a large meal of eggs, bacon, hash browns, pancakes and other artery-clogging dishes, but most days, time constraints demand a meal that demands no flatware. To other one-handed breakfast eaters, we recommend the Meeker--an egg, juicy ham, cheese, a slice of ripe tomato, firm cucumber and a sprinkling of scallions on a puffy croissant. It's tasty but not time-consuming, early-morning... More »
2003 | Best Crab Cakes

Better get to the Metropolitan Cafe early on Wednesdays, because the lunch special is crab cakes, and they sell like hotcakes, whatever that means. Unlike many Dallas restaurants that buy their crab cakes from food distributors, Metropolitan's Momma Christine makes these oval morsels from scratch, having divined her recipe from a dream, she says, as she did for many of the soups, salads, sandwiches and such that find their way onto the menu of this hot downtown spot. These babies are... More »
2002 | Best Soup

It's the kind of mouthwatering soup that would make Seinfeld's Soup Nazi (admit it, you watch the reruns) jealous with rage. Only it's prepared by a soft-spoken, gentle mom (Christine Vouras), using family recipes that she once served at one of Dallas' swankiest restaurants, Chateaubriand (1958-1982). Her only problem is selecting two soups a day from among her 21 recipes to meet the desires of the regulars at the Metropolitan Café, an urban outpost along downtown's edge, next to... More »

Corner Pocket

By Mark Stuertz | Thu, July 31, 2003

Dallas restaurant legend Gene Street, chairman of Consolidated Restaurant Operations, confirms he's set to gobble the servings of another Dallas magnate: Scott Ginsburg. According to Street, Consolidated is close to sewing up a deal to pick up... More »
Taking It Downtown

By Mark Stuertz | Thu, August 22, 2002

It's easy to imagine The Metropolitan on any corner in downtown Boston or Chicago. Unlike most Dallas restaurants parked in strip malls, high-rises or on thoroughfare frontage roads, The Metropolitan is in a structure older than your average... More »

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Main Menu

Main

12 Oz New York Sirloin Steak And Eggs

12 Oz. Steak Sandwich

American Or Canadian Bacon

Angel Hair

Baked Eggs Basquaise

Baked Potato

Banana And Pecan Pancakes

Black And White Sesame Crusted Tuna Steak

Braised Lamb Shank

Buffalo Chicken Salad

Caesar Salad

California Sandwich

Charred Filet Mignon

Chef Salad

Classic Grecian Salad

Cobb Salad

Cold Sesame Noodles

Cornmeal Coated Calamari

Corn Meal Crusted Calamari

Crab Cake

Crab Meat Crusted Mahi-mahi

Egg White Omelete

English Muffin

French Fries

Fresh Mozzarella Wrap

Fresh Roasted Turkey Club

Garden Salad

Grilled Jumbo Shrimp

Grilled Pork Chops

Grilled Steak And Arugula Salad

Grilled Tuna Sandwich

Home Fries

Home Made Granola

Home Made Ground Beef Meatloaf

Italian Chicken Sandwich

Jumbo Gulf Shrimp Cocktail

Large Caesar Salad

Linguica Sandwich

Linguini

Linquica Sausage

Market Garden Salad

Mashed Potatoes

Metro Burger

Metro Cheff Salad

Metro Cobb Salad

Ny Steak

Oven- Baked Eggplant Parmesan

Oven-baked Tilapia Fillet

Oven- Roasted Vegetable Plate

Pan-roasted Atlantic Salmon

Penne Pasta

Petite Caesar Salad

Poached Eggs On Phyllo Pastry Shell

Porcini Dusted Sea Scallops

Potato Pancakes

Quesadilla

Roasted Chicken Wrap

Roasted Pear And Green Salad

Roasted Vegetable Hash

Salmon Teriyaki Salad

Sauteed Spinach

Seafood Chowder

Shallot Marinated Roast Chicken

Shrimp And Avocado Salad

Shrimp Cocktail

Silver Dollar Pancakes

Sizzling Mussels And Clams

Smoked Atlantic Salmon Plate

Smoked Salmon Eggs Benedict

Smoked Salmon Platter

Smoked Salmon Scrambled Eggs

Steamed Broccoli

Steamed Rice

Stuffed Chicken Breast

Three Egg Frittata

Toasted Bagel With Cream Cheese

Traditional Buffalo Wings

Traditional Eggs Benedict

Tri-colored Salad

Tuna Nicoise Salad

Tuna Salad Wrap

Vanilla French Toast

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The Metropolitan Cafe

2032 Main St. Dallas, TX 75201

214-741-2233

Description

2009 | Best Reason To Live Downtown

2005 | Best Soup

2004 | Best Breakfast Sandwich

2003 | Best Crab Cakes

2002 | Best Soup

Corner Pocket

By Mark Stuertz | Thu, July 31, 2003

Taking It Downtown

By Mark Stuertz | Thu, August 22, 2002

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