{"id":52200,"date":"2024-12-02T15:44:48","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T20:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=52200"},"modified":"2024-12-02T15:46:30","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T20:46:30","slug":"new-metro-diner-opens-location-in-lakeland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2024\/12\/02\/new-metro-diner-opens-location-in-lakeland\/","title":{"rendered":"New Metro Diner Opens Location in Lakeland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A<\/ins> Central Florida native opened a new Metro Diner bringing comfort food to\u00a0Lakeland\u00a0with the all-American brand\u2019s eighth location in the greater\u00a0Tampa\u00a0area.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Metro Diner, where American comfort food comes with a generous helping of hospitality, is bringing its menu of crave-able classics to Lakeland. The 122-seat, 3,500-square-foot space is located at 5293 Florida Avenue South in Lakeland South Center, which has undergone a facelift to welcome the new restaurant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The location is helmed by Managing Partner Steve Sullivan, a native of Lakeland who started his restaurant career in the same complex many years earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m excited to be serving my neighbors the hearty meals they love,\u201d Sullivan said. \u201cI grew up in Lakeland, a community of traditional Southern values you can taste in every meal. Metro Diner\u2019s comfort food fills a void in the south Lakeland dining scene.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lakeland appetites will be satisfied by featured selections like Scramble Bowls, Charleston Shrimp & Grits, and Iron City Meatloaf, not to mention the famous Fried Chicken & Waffles: half a fried chicken resting on a Belgian waffle, topped with powdered sugar and strawberry butter and served with Metro Diner\u2019s signature sweet-and-spicy sauce. These and other home-cooking classics caught the attention of celebrity chef Guy Fieri, who featured the restaurant on his Food Network show, Diners, Drive-ins and Dives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of all the mouth-watering menu items, Sullivan\u2019s favorite is the Double Decker BLT: three slices of toast loaded with bacon, lettuce, tomato, and mayo. \u201cIt has a lot of bacon,\u201d he promises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sullivan and his wife, Cody, have been married for 18 years and have two children, Riley and Harris. In his free time, he loves watching his kids play sports and spending time outdoors. Sullivan is an active member of the community, and volunteers with the Big Brothers Big Sisters organization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Metro Diner<\/a> Lakeland is open for breakfast and lunch Monday through Thursday from 6:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., and dinner service is coming soon. For more information, call 863-250-0817.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Central Florida native opened a new Metro Diner bringing comfort food to\u00a0Lakeland\u00a0with the all-American brand\u2019s eighth location in the greater\u00a0Tampa\u00a0area. Metro Diner, where American comfort food comes with a… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52201,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"4","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":true,"token":"eyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvaTAud3AuY29tXC9sYWtlbGFuZGdhemV0dGUuaW5mb1wvbmV3c1wvd3AtY29udGVudFwvdXBsb2Fkc1wvMjAyNFwvMTJcL1NjcmVlbnNob3QtNzEtMy1wbmcud2VicD9maXQ9MTQ2JTJDNzYmc3NsPTEiLCJ0eHQiOiJOZXcgTWV0cm8gRGluZXIgT3BlbnMgTG9jYXRpb24gaW4gTGFrZWxhbmQiLCJ0ZW1wbGF0ZSI6ImhpZ2h3YXkiLCJibG9nX2lkIjoxNjMwNDA2NjF9.WCO4djkSoerDC6STt2VkRzRS53CUDKYY57YFPhXNCMIMQ"},"version":2,"attached_media":[{"id":52201,"url":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Screenshot-71-3-png.webp","type":"image\/png"}]},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[4,7248],"tags":[10436],"class_list":["post-52200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-food","tag-new-metro-diner-opens-location-in-lakeland"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52202,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52200\/revisions\/52202"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}