CAFE METRO CRANFORD ST
There’s nothing more irksome to many of us than the dilution of a product’s attractiveness to a consumer through duplication; among other things the exclusivity factor is removed. The sense that you are enjoying the fruits of a creative person’s labour is somehow dissipated and you get what Christchurch has become notorious for, the utter despair of diners at the sameness prevailing across the suburbs. Points of difference are hard to spot beyond the colour of the tables and chairs or the view from the windows.
Metro Café has recently opened on Cranford St at the northern end of a new block of shops; I’m sorry to have to be so depressingly frank but this place has nothing about it that makes one want to linger longer than it takes to purchase requirements, all of which, I might add, are more than likely to have been prepared off-site so have endured a journey of sorts. Cranfords’s sister café, Metro Papanui Rd, doesn’t even have a kitchen so don’t dare to ask if they have a menu or for an order of poached eggs on toast!
Be this as it may, people flock to such premises for coffee and cake, sandwiches and sausage rolls. In amongst the usual edible café flotsam there will occasionally be a sort of black sheep of the family that offers a welcome relief from the other choices. A Salmon omelette with a side of mixed salad was the welcome alternative. Said well-rested salad boasted beetroot, zucchini, feta cheese,onion, tomato, kumera, pumpkin, red pepper and plenty of green leaves, an unmitigated boost to the immune system as well as a boon to the tastebuds.
Coffee average to good, perfectly suited to anyone on the run but otherwise this establishment is utterly lacking in anything likely to cause you to linger.
Footnote: The reason this has been posted under Merivale Metro is that this cafe (Cranford St) cannot be found in Yellow or Whitepages online so can't be listed as a new cafe on DineOut. Perhaps they don't want to be found....
There’s nothing more irksome to many of us than the dilution of a product’s attractiveness to a consumer through duplication; among other things the exclusivity factor is removed. The sense that you are enjoying the fruits of a creative person’s labour is somehow dissipated and you get what Christchurch has become notorious for, the utter despair of diners at the sameness prevailing across the suburbs. Points of difference are hard to spot beyond the colour of the tables and chairs or the view from the windows.
Metro Café has recently opened on Cranford St at the northern end of a new block of shops; I’m sorry to have to be so depressingly frank but this place has nothing about it that makes one want to linger longer than it takes to purchase requirements, all of which, I might add, are more than likely to have been prepared off-site so have endured a journey of sorts. Cranfords’s sister café, Metro Papanui Rd, doesn’t even have a kitchen so don’t dare to ask if they have a menu or for an order of poached eggs on toast!
Be this as it may, people flock to such premises for coffee and cake, sandwiches and sausage rolls. In amongst the usual edible café flotsam there will occasionally be a sort of black sheep of the family that offers a welcome relief from the other choices. A Salmon omelette with a side of mixed salad was the welcome alternative. Said well-rested salad boasted beetroot, zucchini, feta cheese,onion, tomato, kumera, pumpkin, red pepper and plenty of green leaves, an unmitigated boost to the immune system as well as a boon to the tastebuds.
Coffee average to good, perfectly suited to anyone on the run but otherwise this establishment is utterly lacking in anything likely to cause you to linger.
Footnote: The reason this has been posted under Merivale Metro is that this cafe (Cranford St) cannot be found in Yellow or Whitepages online so can't be listed as a new cafe on DineOut. Perhaps they don't want to be found....
No comments:
Post a Comment