Look for another terrific breakfast and lunch care to be opening at Bay and Washington Avenues in Highlands.
New restaurateur Laercio, more commonly known as Junior or Chef Junior, said the opening of the Highlands Café will hopefully be before the end of the year.
Inside the former Girls’ Café one day this week, he was busy, cleaning, painting, rearranging, and basically “giving the place my own touch” before he opens what will be a café six days a week at the start, closed on Tuesdays. It will be open from 6 a.m. until 3, he said with certainty, and eventually, it will also be open later so he can provide dinner selections as well.
His standard fare will be “simple and basic,” he said, with an accent on using local shops and businesses for his supplies, including fresh clams from Lusty Lobster.
Junior is opening his newest restaurant armed with a lot of experience. He has owned several others in the past, including Graze in the heart of Little Silver, as well as a couple of dining establishments in New York. He started out in the culinary world at Doris & Ed’s many years ago, working his way up from at first working in the lobster box.
His emphasis, he said, is on farm to table, keeping the menu simple, fresh, local, and delicious.
