It's been awhile since I last ate at the famous Metro Pizza and let me say... time has not been good to this once great place. The first indication that things had changed was the fact that I parked in the front row during the lunch rush. In the past you almost had to settle for the Smart and Final overflow lot from 11:00 to 1:30. Once inside the dazed and confused hostess somehow found the effort to say, "How many". These two words were all I got. I believe she is getting paid by the least amount of words she uses during her interactions with guests. I imagine the phrase, "Hello", or "How is your day going" would be too costly and have been removed from her script. Once at the booth I noticed the familiar table cloths that I remember were on the tables when I last visited some 4 years ago. I was impressed that they only had 7 or 8 deep dirty cuts in them considering their age. The good news is that they did go hand in hand with the chipped up painted floor. But enough of about the atmosphere! I mean I would eat off an old tire if it was good!
We ordered the salad and the Gothic from the very nice waitress. The salad was good! But the pizza was...not so good, unless you're a fan of soggy tasteless pie. I would have to say that this new Metro Pizza might make the pies the day before and warm them up when ordered. It just seemed like we were eating day old pie that was heated up in a large microwave.
The sad thing is I would recommend Metro Pizza to ANYONE looking for good local pizza blindly. Because I was going off my past experience. Now...not so much. Sorry guys I know you offered a comment card at the end of the meal but there just wasn't enough room to put my feeling on a 6x3 card. Bottom line is you guys need to step it up! Get back in there and get that place back to what it was.