Enfield Road, said the problems at Metropolitan Café have gotten progressively worse.
“The place used to be a neighborhood pub called the Spread Eagle Inn, which brought out guys who had a beer and watched a ball game,” said Fabbricatore, who came to the meeting with his two young sons. ‘”The place now has clearly increased the scope of their clientele with DJ nights and they are advertising their place in Super Coups, which extends to South Plainfield, North Edison, Metuchen, and Iselin and I’m sure they are advertising elsewhere.”
Fabbricatore said the late partying produces garbage on his front lawn as well as his neighbors’.
“I find half filled beer bottles, broken beer bottles…,” he said. “People urinate and keep us up at 2, 3, 4 in the morning with their loud car alarms, stereos cranked up…. They linger out in the streets when the place lets out at 3 a.m. It’s not safe for my two sons to go play out in the front lawn and does not allow us to have a quality of life.”
The council will also have a liquor license hearing for 88 Keys located on Route 1 North in Iselin on Feb. 13.