Upscale sushi restaurant to open inside the Wegmans on Astor Place

Upscale sushi restaurant to open inside the Wegmans on Astor Place

An upscale sushi restaurant is opening inside the East Village Wegmans. On April 30, the supermarket will debut Next Door, a restaurant with a “fresh take on contemporary Japanese cuisine” inside the Astor Place store. Designed in a warm and inviting Art Deco-inspired style, Next Door will offer a main dining room, a champagne bar, and a sushi counter, where diners can enjoy fish sourced by Wegmans directly from Tokyo, an extensive raw bar, and …

Moonstruck from across the lake. Owners will soon sell the upscale Asbury restaurant on Wesley Lake

Moonstruck Restaurant in Asbury Park. The view from Ocean Grove. By Paul Goldfinger.  Click to enlarge the image.   The owners of the Moonstruck restaurant live in the Grove and first came here in  1995, opening the Raspberry Café, a small breakfast and lunch eatery on Main Avenue..  They soon moved to larger quarters on Main Avenue here, and their reputation for fine dining quickly grew.  We recall lines of diners waiting to get in.  For awhile…