Metro is the standard bearer of capital sophistication, and the eatery’s new two-storey outlet at the TK Avenue shopping plaza in Toul Kork firmly pushes the boroughs of urban style into the city suburbs. Open only a few weeks, the downstairs dining room buzzes during lunch and dinner. The atmosphere is similar to the original restaurant on Sisowath, the menu identical. Expect the favourites: grilled snapper on mash ($6.70), beef with red ants ($8.50), beef tenderloin béarnaise ($24). The interiors, too, echo the riverfront outlet. Plump leather cushions and heavy wooden chairs lend an old-money gravitas to the room, unfinished cement walls and stainless steel bar stools an unmistakable flourish of style. Toul Kork was long considered the capital’s dangerous outskirts. But no longer. As the capital grows, so does its tastes. And Metro Azura is about as refined as it gets.
Metro Azura, TK Avenue, Streets 315 and 516; 012 274060.
