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[tomh009]

I do eat at the Metro relatively often (at least compared to most other local restaurants).  As neonjoe says, it's really Central European (Austria, Czech Republic, Hungary) home cooking.  I don't find the presentation "poor" but then my expectation at the Metro is "home cooking" so I am not disappointed.  My wife enjoys the cabbage rolls (I'm not a big cabbage roll fan myself), we both like the schnitzels (non-stuffed variety, lots to choose from at the Metro) and the goulash and chicken paprikash are also good.  Friends and colleagues have also enjoyed the pig tails (again, not my thing).

If the people were expecting haute cuisine, they were in the wrong place.  But I have never had food at the Metro that I have even considered sending back.

No, they definitely weren't expecting haute cuisine (they used to be big fans of the Heidelberg).   My suggestion to them was to try Two Goblets or J&B, or perhaps Veslo's, next time they are down that way and want the "schmecky fix" (not that I've been to any of them, but one hears good things).  Of their various complaints, the one I discounted was that the schnitzel was "too thick" - I think that is not unusual for local pork schnitzel as I've experienced that myself at other locations in the Region.

Ate at the Metro tonight, partly because of the complaints, wanted to check the situation for myself.    Definitely still the Central European home cooking style, love it or hate it.  Caesar salad decent (lots of dressing, lots of garlic), gypsy schnitzel quite tasty but on the thick side (fairly typical for a pork schnitzel in my experience).  Cabbage rolls were very good, I was told.  Home fries, mashed potatoes, sauerkraut were all as one would expect, and were washed down by a pint of excellent Staropramen.