Cafe Metro

Okay, I must have been really hammered to miss the fact that every piece of meat was almost 50% fat. Hopefully this was a one off, but my friend had the same problem as well. Unfortunately this has completely turned me off from the place!

The first guy who reviewed this was a vegetarian. He was a VEGETARIAN! Is that even possible? I mean, review an establishment when you haven’t tried it before? Sure, I’ll review Abercrombie and Fitch. That stupid store where you don’t see clothes but just huge posters of half naked boys and anorexic girls. I wonder what they’re doing inside? Hmmmm… oh well, it’s not like a give two shits. I don’t cos mostly bimbos and jocks go there. So, you shouldn’t too. Blah blah blah. That’s how he sounded in this review. But, we’ll let it go. This bloke seems legit with his other reviews. I mean, with another review, since I only read one besides this.
Anywho, this place, I don’t even know how to explain this place. A take-​away panini/​sandwich/​coffee place. No stool nor table. The closest thing to this would be a drive-​thru but it’s not, it’s a ‘walk-​thru’, or like those tamale carts except they have chairs and tables for your convenience. Just order and get out type of thing. I got out of the tube, hungry, haven’t eaten all day. It was drizzling, so instantly, I want something hot. I look around, and I see clothes, I see shoes, Boots, then, I see this. Okay, I live in California, I’ve eaten street tacos in TJ, this looks promising. I customized my grilled sandwich with chicken steak, fromage, lettuce, mushroom, and chili sauce. The food is standard, it’s not below standard, considering how cheap it was, £3, but when there’s no shade and it’s raining, and you have an umbrella in one hand and a purse in another, it’s just impossible to juggle a bottled water and a sandwich on top of it and shoving food in your mouth without getting wet. I think if they had a chair or a table with a shade, I would give it another star, but the food is not that bad. The chicken was soft, it had a flavor, the lettuce was fresh, and the guys were pretty nice. I had to go inside the Camden Market to feed.

Café Metro is one of my go to places for stumble home drunk food, the other being Woody Grill for a dirty kebab. Being that Woody is currently closed for refurbishment Café Metro has been seeing alot of my drunk face of late.
I used to go with the steak baguette, but it tends to the gristly side so I’m now stickin’ to the chicken.
Chicken with mushrooms, onion and cheese over lettuce in a crusty baguette. Top it off with chilli sauce, wrap it in a brown paper sandwich bag and stumble along on your merry inebriated way.

OOOoohh, this is a bit of a sordid one. Straight up, I’m not enough of a café buff to spot a bad one from the street-​side. But even the smell of Café Metro puts me off from a distance. And it’s hard to drift closer to that all-​important purchase with the waft of pig fat lingering on the breeze. Vegetarian like me, this is the kind of place which the French rightfully have in mind when they blame us for our national inability to do food well. Blame that smell on the (in)‘famous’ cheese and steak baguette. Fantastic. One of them all round? No mate
I suppose them who frequent Camden High Street feed off this kind of thing. ‘Cause it’s right there, just by the station. This is what greets you. In one of the most unpleasant buildings all round, there it is, Café Metro.
Without quite the reliance upon fried chicken as other, very similar ventures around London, Café Metro does the standard line of burgers, chips, hot dogs, cans of fizzy pop, all day breakfast and these (apparently) famed steak sandwiches. And coffee. It’s very very passable, nothing good, nothing too bad. But come on people, this is London, there are very good cafes sprinkled liberally all over Camden, so there’s really very little need to eat with Café Metro. Unless of course, you’re into steak and cheese baguette, in which case…