Metropolitan Bar & Grill

I went to this location to meet up with some friends. I didn’t choose the location of our meet up, so I wasn’t sure what to expect. I think I was expecting it to be more swanky because I was thinking of something like a Vegas hot spot. This place reminded me of something that belongs in a strip mall, which is basically where it’s located in DTC. There are condos/​apartments above the restaurant and other shops/​restaurants down the way.
The happy hour seems pretty good with some great prices on drinks and food. I happened to order from the regular menu, but got the happy hour red wine to accompany my food. The wine was decent, but took a long time to get to me. The reuben was average, and quite salty. I suppose that’s normal for a reuben, and I like salty food, but this seemed a little over the top.
In the end, I felt like the left hand didn’t know what the right hand was doing while I was there. The waiters seemed to be overwhelmed with the number of people in the restaurant and regularly had to check on prices and menu options with the management.
I’d probably go back here, but it wouldn’t be my first choice. It’s a bit out of the way, and I wasn’t that impressed with the food.

In the 2 years we’ve lived in Inverness, we have’nt met alot of people here. In the last week we’ve been going to The Met (we’ve been here many more times) the chef was changed. Jennifer and the cooks were changed, OMG!!! The food is priced right, the food is awesome!!! The service is still amazing!!! I LOVE THE MET!!! We have met so many neighbors! Thank you Metropolitan! We’ve met a bunch of of our neighbors now! If you go make sure you go on Tyler’s shift! Best bartender in Denver! 5 stars all the way!!! Amazing place!

The Fish Fridays was awesome. It felt like home. I are at the bar quick friendly service.

Wagyu burgers are very good. The Hibiscus tea is excellent — caffeine and sugar free, too. Nice selection of local beers, and fair wine values.
Service is an altogether different issue. The owners of this place have little or no bar/​restaurant experience and it shows. So, that means inconsistency and ineptitude across the board. I think these folks are trying, but they are really out of their league and all the comps and apologies only go so far.
Will not ever return to this place. If you want a small, local joint where ownership and management is present and knows how to provide a good product and serve you properly, try Yanni’s for Greek or Big Bill’s for pizza. BTW — Racca’s across the hallway from Metro blows them away, as does Eddie Merlot’s where you can get a better burger and excellent house wines for about the same money in a far superior atmosphere.

I live next door and frequent this place often. I’ve lived in the area for about a year and a half and I’m really happy to see that there is a new place that offers a wide variety of food and a great happy hour! I have tried most of the food items and have enjoyed it all. I only have one gripe, and that’s the desert… I ordered it to go once and could only have one bite. I see the servers bring out the desert tray often and it seems to change up quite a bit, I may give it another try but probably will just stick to drinks :) I love the green chili — and I found out that it is gluten free, for all you gluten free freaks. $ 4 drinks and small bites for happy hour. They have a special for taco Tuesday also, a margarita (or a beer) and 2 tacos for $ 9.95. The tacos are good! I have only ordered the beef, but it’s tender and juicy and has a nice flavor, especially with the Siracha.
Other things I love and why:
Lobster sliders — need I explain?
Shisito Peppers — these are new to the menu and definitely have a great flavor.
Pesto Turkey Sandwich — My favorite for lunch.
Anyway, I haven’t been dissatisfied with any of the food I have tried here. The servers are fun and friendly. The atmosphere is lively and there’s t. vs to watch sports! :)

The Met Bar and Grill has great atmosphere and food. The price is a little high but the food is very good quality and portions.
I have not had a chance to come after hours yet but it has a very inviting vibe.
The Philly steak, Cobb salad and all burgers are first rate.
The green chili is so-​so
Highly recommend!

The server was very attentive and was able to accommodate for food allergies. Good atmosphere and easy to locate. They are reasonably priced.

Terrific atmosphere, helpful servers, and tasty food all make this a great place to try. My party ordered two dinner salads and reported really liking their meals. The steak salad and the chicken salad with raspberries. I had the chicken pasta with vodka sauce and it was exquisite. It has a sharp kick to it that I really liked. Try it!

Great Atmosphere. great food! Very nice place to walk to, close by. Bartender and waitress and host always very kind.
Love this place and pretty inexpensive comparable to other restaurants.
On Sundays wear orange get a discount watch football.

Happy Hour Venue for the DTC. Great place for Groups and families. Nice bar area, large dining area and helpful staff. There is a spacious patio for group Happy Hours. Food is top-​notch pub grub: wings, burgers. Try the loaded fries, served poutine-​style.

The free drink with a burger was a nice touch (during happy hour any entrée comes with a free happy hour drink). I ordered a infused vodka drink and it was surprisingly strong …
They do have a nice patio area, and a convenient location not far from i25, but no traffic noise. The staff is quite friendly, the manager was out helping bussing tables and checking on guests.

Overall I had a fun time at this place. However, I was with a large party for work. The place is pretty nice in general and in a great area however overall I feel the ratings are about right. The menu is where I had most of the issues. Simply put it is all over the place and lacks focus. You go to certain places to have certain things, this place has a little of everything and nothing that you said I MUST have that.
The food was good, but on the pricey side considering what you you were getting. The staff was friendly and they had good beers. It seemed like they are trying a bit to hard by adding that one extra thing to make the dish or drink a bit off. Sure, lets add jalapeño and orange to tequlia.
All and all, the place was nice and if someone said lets go back, I would be ok with it. Good happy hour.

For some reason I keep trying to give this place a chance. The last few experiences have been so bad I’m done with it and sharing so others don’t waste their money at this place.
The pot stickers come from a freezer and apparently they do not get orders often as they were horribly freezer burned, flavorless and not even dog food grad.
The biscuits and gravy is just greasy and flavorless. Just plain repulsive. Do not order.
The manager has no clue what he is doing. It is clear that he has never run a restaurant. Not only is he weird and creepy, he doesn’t even know enough about his own restaurant to help out his limping staff.

We were interested in trying this place based on the positive reviews and nice photos, but our experience didn’t quite match up. It certainly wasn’t bad, but we both walked out saying, «meh.» The cocktails were good, and happy hour is a good deal. But I honestly couldn’t taste or sense the vodka in mine. We had pork sliders and candied Brussels sprouts for a starter, and the pork sliders were good, but the Brussels sprouts were not in the least bit candied or seasoned. They were still tasty, being roasted, but weren’t as advertised.
For entrees, we both ordered burgers, but the menu was a little misleading. Under burgers, the «Gorgonzola burger» listed «blue cheese» as one of the ingredients — is it Gorgonzola or bleu cheese? That was my husband’s burger, and it was good. I ordered the portobello burger, thinking it was a beef burger with mushrooms (the menu describes all burgers as having beef patties, and placed it amongst the other burgers with no vegetarian indication), but was disappointed to find it was a vegetarian burger. It was just mediocre, but the fries were good. The food seems to have changed since photos were posted. We chose not to have dessert.
Our service was fine — our server was new, but nice. The atmosphere was also fine in terms of the décor and the TVs, but there was a loud family with kids running around next to us (clearly no fault of the restaurant’s). To sum up, we probably won’t go back, but it wasn’t bad.

Tried some happy hour fare here. Pretty decent if a little pricy… Want to try their crazy looking burger next time.

I would probably rate this place with 3.5 stars, but since I can’t I will go with four. We had the pesto turkey sandwich with house chili, and the green chili grilled cheese with fries. The food was good, and the ingredients were very fresh (which is what bumped the review up to four stars).
The service was ok. It was a little slow, and the waitress didn’t know much about the menu when we asked about items. She was great on refilling drinks without asking.
Will definitely come back and try brunch — the menu looks amazing!

This was a good meal. I was enticed in by a coupon for a free burger, otherwise it may have been awhile before I knew this place was here even though it’s pretty close to home.
Since the burger was free, I decided to try one of those, as did my husband. They were good burgers, and I enjoyed the crispy onions on mine, but it wasn’t the best burger I’ve ever had. In fact, some of the local fast-​casual burger joints nearby are pretty competitive on the burger front. My husband’s chili burger came covered in chili (fork eating only), and unfortunately it was on the cold side– my husband isn’t a complainer and said he was too hungry to wait for them to fix it. The sweet potato fries were nothing special, pretty sure there’s a brand I can buy in the freezer section at the grocery store I like just as well.
The rest of the lunch menu is mostly salads and sandwiches. I would be interested in giving them a try again, and hopefully find something that knocks my socks off. Service was pretty good, no complaints there. And I like the modern décor– it’s very bright and open in there. I’ll be back.

Best burger I have had for so long I can’t remember the last «best».
This place is clean and the people that work there are smiling. That’s a good sign.

I must admit that my visit was 3 days in to the business opening, so… I look forward to reviewing them again. They have infused house liquors for their cocktails and Colorado beers on tap. For dinner, we had the French Onion soup and the Bourbon Bacon Burger with fries. The French onion was really good. The burger was ok, the fries were super amazing!
Service was spotty, but friendly! Going to let them get the kinks worked out and go try again.

This place is strange. You can tell that the owners have never run a bar/​restaurant before — and it shows.
The interior looks like a wine bar in terms of the upscale décor, but with flat screen televisions everywhere. Make up your mind — are you a wine bar/​romantic type place or a place where people go to watch the big game? You can’t be both. While we sat at the bar (my boyfriend was eating — I wasn’t hungry enough to pay $ 15 for an entrée and thus was just having a drink) a commercial for some kind of foot scraping pedicure device came on the television — really gross and unappealing while eating, you know?
The menu has no small plates — want to come in here for a beer and a snack? Well, that’s not going to happen unless you want soup, a side salad, or chili — those are pretty much the only plates under $ 10. I know this is a relatively well-​to-​do area (I live in the complex) but what if you don’t want a full entrée? As a woman who doesn’t eat massive portions I felt like the menu didn’t have many options for me. Additionally, the menu was very haphazard — burgers, random entrees that didn’t really seem to make sense together — it’s almost like someone scribbled down a bunch of the popular entrees while watching a Diners, Drive-​Ins, and Dives show and made a menu out of them, and brought the prices up to around $ 15 minimum ($ 25 for the ‘fancy’ entrees).
My boyfriend ordered a buffalo sausage which came with onions and peppers on a pretzel roll (not homemade/​fresh) and a side of Sysco frozen fries — for about $ 13 (there’s no menu online so I cannot confirm its exact cost). While the food was fine, it was not a $ 13 meal — it looked like something that came from Buffalo Wild Wings. He said it tasted fine, nothing to write home about. Except later that night after it being the only thing he’d eaten that afternoon/​evening he came down with a serious case of, uh, intestinal distress.
The bartender who served us was nice — but part way through eating a lonely manager (the place was deserted on a Friday night) wandered over and asked if our meal was okay — the weird thing about it was that he looked like he was going to cry — he had the saddest most somber expression — it made us super uncomfortable. We likely won’t be back, but since this seems to be a fledgling business — here’s my tips to try and actually keep this place open:
–Decide if you’re going to be a romantic, sit-​down spot or a place where you go and have drinks and watch a game or enjoy some conversation with your friends. The restaurant lacks an identity and it makes it weird. Are you an upscale burger bar or a place that serves $ 25 entrée plates? The menu is not cohesive and it doesn’t look like it was written by a chef. Pick a core food type or style to focus on.
— Add some smaller plates to your menu or some appetizers that aren’t $ 10. I’m not willing to shell out tons of money for stuff that came out of a frozen bag from Sysco. I was told a side of fries was $ 8 — you’ve got to be kidding me. Add some fresh, seasonal small plates to your menu and you’ll see revenue from people adding them to their orders. Also, the menu literally reads like an expensive sports bar menu with the back page of date night type high price dinners — pick one. Eddie Merlot’s is about to open in the same parking lot, so I would say err on the side of nice sports/​burger bar and go in that direction — since they’re definitely going to be the ‘date spot’ joint and a nice sports bar would do well here since the only other option is Marco’s.
Unfortunately, given the menu, the strange ambiance, and the food quality — we won’t be returning, and if this place manages to stay in business for longer than a year I’ll eat my hat. Bonne chance!
Edited to Add (1÷20÷16): Someone on Unilocal with one review (not for this location) and no other information on their Unilocal page contacted me today to tell me to eat my hat as this place is still in business. I’m assuming this person was with the restaurant (who else would spend the time to send such a message?) which is pretty petty and sad on their part. There’s no accounting for taste — and I guess if you’re a suburbanite with an unrefined palate, a penchant for frozen pre-​made Sysco food, and plenty of disposable income, then this place fits the bill.