We’ll start with something that opened late last month: Wasu Japanese in Watchung. Lunch and dinner is served at the BYO located at 720 Somerset Street. It’s a classic sushi-plus-cooked-fare spot. 908-841-1600.
Now, here’s an update on the Momo Group’s project at The Grove West in Shrewsbury: Albarino, which will extend the group’s (Teresa Caffe, Mediterra, Eno Terra) reach well beyond the current Princeton environs, has been hiring kitchen staff in anticipation of opening early in October. There’s now a phone number and a Web site to go with the address of 4 Patterson Avenue at Broad Street: 732-852-2640; albarinorestaurant.com.
Coming this fall:
Myrna Peruvian Cuisine, 89 Ridge Road in North Arlington. BYO. Lunch and dinner. 201-991-1060.
Cafe Six One One, 408 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive in Jersey City. 201-653-9771.
Poke Crew, 1 East Palisades Avenue in Englewood. Hawaiian. Lunch and dinner; BYO. No phone yet.
Salsa Arepa, 1 Garden State Plaza in the Garden State Mall, Paramus. South American. No phone yet.
Kravings Brazilian Barbecue, 4000 Route 42 in Washington Township. No phone yet.
Green Den, 150 Linwood Plaza in Fort Lee. Organic, vegetarian. There’s a start-up Web site at greenden.com.