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Hours: Lunch and Dinner Monday-Saturday 11-9, Sunday Brunch 11-4
Light MetroFresh Breakfast Monday-Friday 7-9:30
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. . . . A few weeks before we opened in October 2005, my staff and I sat in my living room and talked about the world we wanted to create at MetroFresh. Words like neighborhood, generous, innovative, fanciful, funny, happy came up over and over. Those original 9 people: Diane, Carrie, Pilar, Topher, Greg, Marcie, Soledad, Julio, Laticia and me, opened MetroFresh with a lot of hard work and a lot of sweat, and with the idea that we were not "just another restaurant." We invited people to come on the journey with us - and they did.
Just a few of the original nine remain. The others have moved on to new chapters, but the original feeling is still there - we are not just a restaurant. With, what has grown to what seems like an enormous staff of 15. MetroFresh
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continues to occupy a quirky spot in our customers' hearts. We place an enormous emphasis on giving as much as we can back to the neighborhood that has helped us become a success. For our second anniversary we "gave back" the whole month of October by highlighting one charity a week, donating a portion of our sales to them, and by having fund raisers in the restaurant. We were thrilled to be part of raising awareness and funds for Gilda's Club, AIDS Walk Atlanta, PALS. We even sent one of our regular customers on the Breast Cancer Three Day Walk in San Diego with funds she raised at MetroFresh.
It is really cool when we can combine our passion for "world food" with our passion for community service. One of our managers, Kristin, asked me for time off to go on a Medical Mission to Honduras. I was fascinated by the idea and suggested that we investigate Honduran food. AND we decided that her MetroFresh family could participate in her trip by donating a portion of our weekly gross sales. We asked our customers to try something new, and in return we all helped Kristin's mission. The response was overwhelming. One of our customers even arranged for Kristin to fly to Honduras on a Buddy Pass. This means that all of the money we were able to donate is going to vaccinating over 30 children in Honduras. This kind of energy is what we were talking about at our first meeting almost three years ago. It is this energy that keeps us going day after day.
. . . . . We invite you into our kitchen. It is the warmest place in our house - as my grandmother said, "No matter where I serve my guests, it seems they like my kitchen best."
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