The Met is an excellent steak house. The food is excellent and the service is impecable. You feel like a celebrity everyime you eat there. Very high class. Their steaks are perfection, espcially... More

The Met is an excellent steak house. The food is excellent and the service is impecable. You feel like a celebrity everyime you eat there. Very high class. Their steaks are perfection, espcially the petite filet mignon. I always have them butterfly it and it is perfect. The staff is excellent and they are always making sure you are very satisfied. It is expensive to eat here but well worth it. You have to make reservations to get a table at dinner hour. You won't be disappointed at all with your experience.
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After dining in NY and Boston steak houses for my formative years, a friend recommended the Met shortly after I moved to Seattle. What people say is pretty much true here - the food is great, the... More

After dining in NY and Boston steak houses for my formative years, a friend recommended the Met shortly after I moved to Seattle. What people say is pretty much true here - the food is great, the service is great, and the menu options were great. As long as you are not too cheap to spend $200 on dinner, you should be very happy here. Our only complaint was that our table was so small we could barely keep 2 plates and 2 glasses on it at a time. Every other patron walking by bumped us, and the lamp on the table was unplugged by our feet every 5 minutes. The atmosphere is very typical of Seattle - casual. Still, after trying El Gaucho I have never returned to the Met. Pros: Good food, Good service Cons: Very casual, Crowded
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The Metropolitan Grill isn't someplace you go to dinner every weekend. Not unless you have that kind of money to spend, I guess. I love the food at the Met. The ambiance is business-formal and... More

The Metropolitan Grill isn't someplace you go to dinner every weekend. Not unless you have that kind of money to spend, I guess. I love the food at the Met. The ambiance is business-formal and the prices are, too. Their steaks are to die for, and try the sauteed mushrooms. I've also heard the drinks are great, but haven't tried them myself.
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The steaks, of course, were to die for. As you'd expect. The wine - yummy. But what really set this place apart was the service. Professional and friendly without being chatty, knowlegable but in a... More

The steaks, of course, were to die for. As you'd expect. The wine - yummy. But what really set this place apart was the service. Professional and friendly without being chatty, knowlegable but in a way that informs and doesn't lord it over you, the customer. Timely but not hovering. An all around fantastic experience that was worth every dime. Pros: Service, Steak, Wine
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I went for a special occasion meal and was impressed with the quality of the steaks, but found the atmosphere too loud and hectic for my liking. It felt more like a lunch place than a dinner... More

I went for a special occasion meal and was impressed with the quality of the steaks, but found the atmosphere too loud and hectic for my liking. It felt more like a lunch place than a dinner place. Pros: Great beef Cons: crowded
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This is the 4th time I've been to the Met, so I'm revising and updating my original review: I've had steak in many great steakhouses all over the country, including Kansas City's best, and The... More

This is the 4th time I've been to the Met, so I'm revising and updating my original review: I've had steak in many great steakhouses all over the country, including Kansas City's best, and The Metropolitan Grill is truly the king of steakhouses. It is decidedly old school, incredibly classy, and totally a "must" for anyone who appreciates a perfectly prepared aged prime-beef steak, the best servers in the business, great cocktails, a wine list with absolutely everything on it, and sinfully wonderful desserts. The atmosphere is just "busy" enough. You know you are in a class joint, but it isn't too stuffy or fancy. dressy-casual diners are comfortable here, but you certainly won't feel out of place dressing up in suits and dresses, either. And don't even begin to tell me El Gaucho is better...El Gaucho is for those little boys who wear tight shirts and try to impress people with their cars and how much money they spend. However, if you want Seattle's best steak, the best servers, and a true steakhouse dining experience, take your money and go to The Met. Well, if you are one of those little boys in tight shirts, keep going to El Gaucho, and leave the Met for the rest of us! It goes without saying, but we were seated promptly, and the hosts, wine captains, servers, bus boys, and vallets were all extremely polite and great at their jobs. All people in my party had their steaks cooked perfectly. Sides were nice and hot. And the tableside flambe' is done very well--not cheesy in the least. Yes, it costs more than Daniel's Broiler, but it was worth every penny to be treated so well and eat/drink/experience everything so wonderful. Seattle's best, by far. Pros: perfect steak, great wine, sinful sweets Cons: that I can't go there every night!
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The food is great and the service is excellent. But too many tables are crowded into the restaurant. Several customers and staff bumped into my wife and me while we had dinner. The Met has such a... More

The food is great and the service is excellent. But too many tables are crowded into the restaurant. Several customers and staff bumped into my wife and me while we had dinner. The Met has such a good reputation, but I was really disappointed. We had reservations well in advance, so we should not have had a table in the way of staff. Met, if you're listening: Don't put guests at the table at the bottom of the stairs. They deserve better. Pros: Great food, Excellent service Cons: Crowded, Noisy
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Went there for a business meeting. Having a meeting there by using the boardroom's highly recommended. In the dining area, it was very loud. I wouldn't recommend it for a romantic date. It's a... More

Went there for a business meeting. Having a meeting there by using the boardroom's highly recommended. In the dining area, it was very loud. I wouldn't recommend it for a romantic date. It's a good place to people watch, as well as eavesdrop on other's conversation. The steak I ordered was supposedly pink in the middle, but when everyone in my table got their "medium well" steaks, it was extremely bloody. My friends mashed potato looked like it had cranberry juice as it's gravy, after she sliced into her pretty rare steak. The waiters limited dispensing their strawberry lemonade it seems, but those who ordered wine and alcoholic drinks kept getting served with their beverage. Pros: attentive sommelier, attentive waiters Cons: very rare steak, too loud, too crowded
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what do you call a place where the food is incredible, the service is impeccable, the bartender pours a perfect martini, and the desserts are something you'll dream about for a month after eating... More

what do you call a place where the food is incredible, the service is impeccable, the bartender pours a perfect martini, and the desserts are something you'll dream about for a month after eating them? i call it the metropolitan grill. i've been lucky enough to go there twice in the past few months and if it wasn't so expensive (and it IS damn expensive!) then i'd go every week. the service is almost comical it's so perfect. nice, attentive waiters/waitresses. busboys that fill your water before you even know your glass is almost empty. etc. but the food...it's just to die for. amazing. incredible. mouth-watering and cooked to perfection. prepared exactly how you ordered it. whether you get a steak, the halibut, or anything in between you will not be disappointed. and if you like chocolate, i have 4 words for you: 9 layer chocolate cake. ok, so it's 3 words and a number but just shut up and go eat the cake. trust me.
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This is your typical pretentious restaurant with white tablecloths, except without the quality food. On my single visit to the Metropolitan Grill I ordered the Steak Oscar. When I cut into it steak... More

This is your typical pretentious restaurant with white tablecloths, except without the quality food. On my single visit to the Metropolitan Grill I ordered the Steak Oscar. When I cut into it steak juice flooded my plate. Any novice with basic cooking skills can tell you that when you remove a steak from the grill it must sit for a few minutes so that the fibers can re-absorb the juices. Apparently, their chef was unaware of this. The result was juice all over my plate, instead of in the steak. Have you ever seen that PBS documentary in which some wine "experts" were fooled by the filmmaker? The director surreptitiously replaced a $200+ bottle of wine with a $4 bottle of table wine. The following day, when the wines were being judged, the experts had no clue that a bottle of cheap wine had been slipped in among the expensive wines, and they rated it to be in the same class as those other wines. Well, as I was sitting in the Metropolitan Grill I was reminded of that documentary. Somehow, I doubt that the chef here is any more skilled than those at a franchise steakhouse. If you want a genuinely good steak try JAKs in West Seattle.
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