Metro Diner

Had a fantastic milk shake, Veggie burger put a over rated hot spot” By Chloe” to shame. And no chocolate exploding from my pants either. The waiter was friendly smart, very efficient. My friend said for a non upscale place the simple food was up to par. Prices are reasonable, and the waiter was extremely fast from ordering extra to check. The only downer was Pepsi, I like coke, the fountain Pepsi seemed weak, but maybe it’s the drink. All in all deserved 5 stars.

I have not been to this diner in a while but I’m sure it hasn’t changed over the years! It’s your typical Manhattan diner, nothing special or objectionable but there is really no reason to come here in less you are right in front of this place; I do recommend it over diners located closer to the university

Solidly 3 star. Not spectacular, but good fast service, acceptable coffee and no ugly glares from the staff if you sit lingering over your coffee as the line backs up. Can’t say the same about the waiting customers of course.

Unfortunately, I was very disappointed with my Unilocal delivery order from this establishment.
Asked for salt and pepper, did not receive it. Ordered two $ 2.75 fountain drinks, received two 12 ounce cups of soda that were flat. Toast was not toasted, it was just bread. Asked for home fries, received a cross between hash browns and scalloped potatoes.
The food was okay, but if I had received the salt and pepper that I requested,

Enjoyed a solo breakfast at Metro. Very good flavorful and large pancakes that covered the plate. Fresh-​squeezed OJ. Bacon was okay. Sat at the bar, where the service was decent. Never got my coffee refilled. At one point the server said loudly, «who took the napkin from here,» referring to the seat next to me. I didn’t have a clue what he meant.

The atmosphere is homey, vintage, a traditional no-​frills American diner. Cream, butter and smuckers jam comes in self serve packets. I know it’s breakfast, brunch, diner food, so I don’t expect bougie but the quality isn’t that great at the price with most mains being $ 12+. The menu is extensive but perhaps they’d do better at paring it down and nailing a few dishes. The food tastes really bland and flat in flavor. Waiter was fairly nice and refilled my coffee quickly. They were fast at getting the food out quickly with no errors after we ordered. I didn’t experience any sourpuss waiters, he was quiet, not too pushy, and nice.
I ordered the special lunch, goat cheese, and asparagus egg white omelette. The portion size is generous with a heaping pile of sweet potato fries. Ingredients tasted dull and not fresh or flavorful. The best part was the goat cheese filing inside, savory light but very salty and perhaps too much of. My friend’s frittata seemed overcooked and similarly flat as well. Egg dishes aren’t that overly complicated and if I’m paying for convenience, there’s got to other diners on the scene that can nail the basics.

One nasty waiter can ruin the entire meal. I called and spoke to the owner and complaint about the treatment
We received during breakfast a few weeks ago. He goes on to say next time you come back let us know. Ok, so we came back and let them know. Nothing changed. Food is good, a little pricey. The serves is really bad.

Solid diner food. I order breakfast from Metro 2 – 4 times per week. Pancakes are large and tasty; turkey sausage is good; eggs are always cooked precisely as ordered; muffins are tasty. Delivery guys are friendly and deliveries are timely. I make a lot of substitutions and special requests, and they are always honored and accurately prepared. In-​house, it’s a good diner atmosphere – incredibly fast service, noisy and crowded but you can still have a conversation; free refills on fountain drinks!

Food was Good and service was fast. The only thing wrong was the homophobic wait staff. Who couldn’t believe there were two gay men sitting at a table and having breakfast. Unfortunately for them I can understand Spanish. They kept giving us dirty looks. Hey news flash you’re in New York. Cut that crap out. A good number of your patrons are gay and lesbian or have relatives who are. I won’t come back.

Ce dinner est super ! La carte est large, le choix de petits déjeuners excellent et les plats sont bien aussi. Le personnel est sympathique et le cadre est top :)

stopped in to have a brunch with my family. Rosa our waitress was friendly and efficient. the coffee was delish. it’s a Dinner and a typical new York
daughter had a Belgium waffle with pure maple syrup I had the housemade veggie burger which was very good but very fulling. nice local place.

It’s a solid breakfast, lunch or dinner place in this Upper West Side neighborhood. Metro has always been my go-​to-​place for breakfast or lunch with friends or family. Their breakfast items and blue plate specials are standard selections.
The space is huge and there are some great booths in the back with the cool retro décor. Last time I visited for lunch with a few friends I sat close to the entrance in a circular table sitting six people.
The menu is huge. For any classic diner, you can order anything under the sun in regards to standard diner fare. I suggest people to look for the blue plate special which is an American diner’s standard low priced daily special item.
I am not sure if they have blue plate specials on the weekends because I usually go to Metro on the weekdays.
My sister-​in-​law who visited from outside of NYC loved their pancakes. Over the years, I have taken many out-​of-​town relatives and it has always been a hit.
Service is spotty. They can have attentive servers and there are also some bad ones. Most of my experiences have been positive. It is a diner so my expectations are usually pretty low. This past lunch was relatively friendly and efficient.
Finally, the food is always pretty large portions. My blue plate special, eggplant parm was very tasty and I even took some home because it was such a large portion.
Very solid option. Hopefully I will be back soon.

Looked crowded so I was optimistic. Good location on Broadway. But numerous problems:
1) 10 min to be asked for coffee. If I’m up at 9 on a Saturday, I want coffee STAT!
2) no sweetener, and I could not get waitress’s attention to get some.
3) waffle I ordered came lukewarm at best. Butter I put on the waffle never melted. How do you mess up a waffle?
4) Never was offered a refill. I had to stand up, look over a half wall, to ask another waiter to refill my cup.
Do yourself a favor. Save your time and money and go somewhere else.

I love this diner. It’s a true NYC diner.
Classic atmosphere, friendly serving staff, efficient service, comfortable and clean.
Is the food the best in the city? No, but it’s good enough, and that’s not the only reason to come. You come here to feel at home away from home and enjoy some comfort food without being rushed off your table the minute you finish eating, any time of day or night.

Great breakfast food. Fresh strawberries not that stuff from a jar thats covered in syrup. Nice atmosphere, our waiter was nice but overall they need to improve they’re customer service. Always seems to be packed when I go there though so the good food must make up for the slightly less than staff.

Came here for brunch but was left with a bad taste in my mouth. Although the food, atmosphere, and speediness of service were good, the employees ruined the experience. There was a point of confusion as to why we were charged extra for coffee and rather than clarifying, the hostess directed us to return to our table to take up our issue with the waiter. When the waiter returned, he acknowledged that the menu was unclear and that there was nothing he could do about it. When we went back to the hostess, (the one in the Tommy Hilfiger necklace) she needed my friend and I to instruct her how to separate the check. Not how much money we were each going to pay, but literally how to divide. She told us to ask for separate checks next time (not a typical NYC custom). There will not however, be a next time.

While the food, atmosphere and speediness are on par as far NYC diners go, the service was NOT. I got brunch with a few friends and added a mimosa for an additional $ 4. The coffee was supposed to be included, but we were all charged an additional amount because we got a mimosa, which is not indicated anywhere on the menu. We tried to clear it up while paying at the front, only to be sent back to our table, only to be told that we were charged because we got a mimosa. Even the waiter admitted that it was unclear. The employee taking care of us at the register was extremely UNhelpful and could hardly be bothered to take out a calculator to divide the bill by 3. I felt I should have been paid for my time helping the cashier divide the bill. I will NOT be returning.

Diners can be really good. I love salads and diners tend to have very big and very flavorful salads. Metro Diner has been around for a very long time. The service is not that great. The servers are not very friendly. However, for diner food it hits the spot. Classic chocolate milk and grill cheeses. I don’t think I’ll be going again though.

O metro dinner é um daqueles lugares bem clássicos americanos, fui algumas vezes la pra tomar um bom café americano, com ovo, bacon e french toast, e outras p jantar, e por $ 15,00 vc come realmente muito bem, dá pra dividir em duas pessoas tranquilamente.

Un petit QG !
Découvert le deuxième jours de notre arrivée, nous y avons petit déjeuner deux fois et diner une fois.
Tarifs abordables, personnel sympa, service rapide et comme d’habitude en Amérique, quantité trop copieuse !
Les petits déjeuners sont vraiment au top !
Pour info, l’assiette de granola est suffisante pour deux personnes si vous prenez des pancakes et/​ou bacon etc également !

Very good, massive portion, could not finish, glad i stumbled upon this place, polish watress very nice server. Thanks will come back next time in usa.

Before we left our touristing in New York, I told my partner that I simply had to have breakfast in a proper old-​school diner, so after some searching, he came across this place. We went for breakfast, and I had a smoked salmon bagel deluxe thing, and he had a pastrami sandwich. I also went for a chocolate milkshake, which, to my delight, turned out to be melted Häagen-​Dazs ice-​cream! Sooo good…
The portion sizes were plentiful (though, that said, being European, all American portions seem to be huge), and there was so much salmon spare to put in the bagel that I couldn’t physically fit it all in the bagel — the helping was really rather generous. The pastrami sandwich was also packed full of meat.
It’s only a diner, and there isn’t going to be any culinary wizardry that knocks your socks off here. But for a good, hearty, filling breakfast in a fun retro setting (and a chocolate milkshake that will make you drool for hours before and afterwards), this is a cool place to go.

Not great. Bad service and spinach pie with not flavor. The waiter has no personality and really on the rude side. Won’t come back.

Had the Athenian Omelet. Extremely bland and tasteless. Couldn’t even finish it. Not sure why people running a restaurant can’t get their act together when preparing something as simple as that.
I returned to this review subsequently and felt obliged to lower the rating to a one. The experience was that bad!

Metro is a great diner. The food is good, service good and fast and the prices are reasonable.
The only complaint I have is that the quality of their cherry pie has slipped. Ordered it this evening and it had more gelatin than cherries. But our omlette (which I ordered for dinner) was good.

Leckere Burger-​auch der Veggie Burger. Upgrade auf Supreme lohnt sich, denn dann sind noch Salat, Tomate, Krautsalat und leckere Pommes mit dabei! Breakfast ist auch super. Wie in einem Diner üblich bekommt man kostenlosen Refill beim Kaffee!

Ganz bestimmt kein schlechter Platz, aber ich meine, dass es authentischere Diner in der Nachbarschaft gibt.

Un sitio al estilo «Pitch Pit» (si, todos tenemos una infancia), que, aunque parezca raro, no es tan sencillo de encontrar en NYC. El tipico sitio american donde te sirven pancakes gigantes, hamburguesas gigantes y todo gigante. Ideal para brunch. Si bien no es el mejor sitio para comer, le regalo la 4a estrella porque me costo encontrar un bar que yo consideraba tipical american.

Unser Zweiter Abend in New York und der Hunger trieb uns in dieses Diner.
Wie es wohl in den USA üblich ist bekamen wir einen Tisch zugewiesen und zwei (Plastik)Gläser Wasser aufs Haus. Das Wasser war leider aus der Leitung, daher mit Chlor.
Nachdem wir uns die Karte angesehen hatten entschieden wir uns für einen normalen Classic Burger und einen Metro Burger, beide mit Pommes.
Dazu gab es Krautsalat und je eine halbe saure Gurke. Alles hat sehr sehr lecker geschmeckt. Die Burger sind mit 250g (nur das Fleisch) wirklich riesig und wir sind satt wie nie ;-) Außerdem habe ich noch nie einen so leckeren Burger gegessen! Mit McDonalds und Co absolut nicht zu vergleichen!
Der Service war sehr nett, und die Rechnung betrug (2 Burger mit Pommes, eine Saftschorle) 25 Dollar. Nicht gerade günstig, aber für NY wohl normal.
Wir werden im Laufe der Woche nochmal hingehen.

also den laden wollte ich wegen der burger dort erwähnen. die sind nämlich richtig lecker. leider muss man ab und an etwas auf das essen warten. aber das warten lohnt sich. die preise sind durchschnitt in new york und schnell zum mittagessen würde ich nicht hingehen. unter umständen ist die pause schon vor dem essen rum, aber um sich abends schnell einen leckeren burger reinzuschaufeln ist es hier ideal.
kuchen haben die dort auch einige. aber dafür muss man wahrscheinlich amerikaner sein. mir waren sie zu süß, resp. sahen zu süß aus.