Executive Chef at Metropolitan Tavern
Chef Aaron Franco has always loved food. With seventeen years of chef experience, this culinary passion began early on in childhood as he gravitated towards his family’s kitchen. Watching his father cook, Aaron was exposed to Italian, French, and Latin cuisine in an authentic home cooking environment. His curiosity of the process grew and so did the desire to learn how to cook himself. Recognizing this, Aaron’s father took him under his wing, mentoring him to cook from the heart and challenging him daily to grow his culinary skills and palate.
Outside of his culinary talent, writing is Aaron’s second passion. With his first cookbook released in late December 2021, Chef Aaron Franco is very excited to share his passion with others.
He also loves to travel and seek new challenges. That same curious mentality from his youth was inherent to his later culinary pursuits: “I traveled multiple countries alone, asking local restaurants if I could help in the kitchen and learn. This gave me Chef comrades around the globe that I still keep in touch with today.”
Through the years, that enjoyment Chef Aaron Franco first felt in the kitchen has grown into an incredible talent for crafting fine food for everyday dining. Metropolitan Tavern is lucky to have him as our Executive Chef!