Café Restaurant Metro
Bakery-driven all-day cooking in the Nxt Museum's front hall, natural wine included.
Metro fills the front section of the Nxt Museum, which means you can chase robot art with shrimp croquetas, or skip the art entirely like most of Noord seems to. It is a big concrete warehouse room made friendly with Bruno Rey chairs, mirrors and a bakery counter stacked with sourdough by mid-morning. Xander Waller of Entrepot runs it with chef Rients de Jong, formerly of Restaurant As, and the kitchen keeps things seasonal and unfussy: kohlrabi in brown butter with lovage sabayon, monkfish with San Marzano sauce vierge, a côte de boeuf for two when you are feeling flush. Three courses from €41 keeps the bill honest. The wine list leans natural without being preachy about it, with plenty by the glass. Packed since it opened in December 2022, so book, or grab the concrete bar and watch the open kitchen.
Open with the shrimp croquetas with pearl barley and lemon mayonnaise, two pieces for €9,25.
What to order
Full menu- Croquetas garnaal€9,25
Shrimp croquettes with pearl barley and lemon mayonnaise, the opener the whole room orders
- Koolrabi in bruine boter€22,50
Kohlrabi in brown butter with lovage sabayon, peas and sea lavender, the vegetable main
- Côte de boeuf€45 p.p.
With garnish, ordered per two people
- Zwarte peper Sablé Breton€9
Black pepper sablé with strawberries, crème Suisse and elderflower syrup
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