I'm a big fan of the Metro Pizza on Decatur and Tropicana, but had never been to this location despite it being fairly close to my house.
My husband and I stopped in for a late lunch before catching a movie this past weekend. My first impression was that it was decorated a bit nicer compared to the Decatur location. There was a lot of 80s memorabilia on the walls but other then that it seems more like a place you could go on a date... None of the butcher paper as table clothes, which gives the Decatur location a more casual, fun, family friendly feel to it...
Who really cares about the atmosphere of a pizza place though? People go to pizza places for food! And Metro delivers. We split a small (9") mushroom pizza ($9) and an order of garlic knots ($4.95). My husband also had a side salad (don't recall price) with balsamic dressing. I am a huge fan of the house dressing at Metro but had never tried the balsamic. It's great, I love how they bring out the entire bottle so you are sure to have enough for your salad and some extra to drizzle on the yummy complimentary bread.
The garlic knots were excellent. I like the knots from Villa pizza, I LOVE the knots from Metro though... The pizza was ok, when I took my first slice off the plate most of the cheese and toppings slide off. Don't like that much. It tasted good though...
Service was a little on the slow side, slow enough that we ended up going to see a later movie. If I could do half-star ratings I would give Metro a 3.5 but it was good food at a decent price so I will round up